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Excerpt from Compendium of Ancient Geography, Vol. 1 The Indices being an important part of a work of this nature, the alteration made in the form of them requires a particular explanation. Of thefe there are four in the original; the firil: being intitled A Nomenclature, ferving as a Supplement to what is inferted in the body of the work, and containing the names of thore places which are found in the folio maps exclufive l with their modern names; and references to' the chapter of the work that treats of the country compriling them. The fecond is intitled A Table compofed of the Names of Countries. The third is of Chief Seas and the fourth, called Table da Local a detail, comprifes the names contained as well in the Nomen clature, and diftinguilhed by the letter N, as thofe contained in the text, and which refer to the volume and page; but without the modern names. Thefe mafl'es I have endeavoured to render lefe complicated by digeiting them into three. The firit table will be found to contain the names of countries, the fe cond thofe of the chief feas, and the third the names in the folio maps diilinguiihed by an Italic character, with the fame refer ences as the original; together with the names contained in the body of the work And to render this index a complete dictionary of ancient geography, I have inferted the modern names of this clafs alfo. To this edition moreover is prefixed a table of itine rary mafures reduced into Englilh yards and decimal parts. This will be ufeful to the Englilh reader; until his country, in concert with other nations, (hall eitablifh a common fcale of nmfures on an eternal and univerfal principle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.