A complete system of geography : being a description of all the countries, islands, cities, chief towns, harbours, lakes, and rivers, mountains, mines, &c. of the known world : shewing the situation, extent, and boundaries of the several empires, kingdoms, republics, principalities, provinces, &c. : their climate, soil, and produce, their principal buildings, manufactures, and trade, their government, policy, religion, manners, and customs, and the distance and bearing of all the principal towns from one another : comprehending the history of the universe, both antient and modern, and the most material revolutions and changes that have happen'd in it, either by conquest or treaties with whatever is curious and remarkable in the works of nature of art