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Rh data, upon which such a map must mainly be founded upon anything like sound "critical principles. But it must be confessed that the result is far from encouraging. So small a proportion of Ptolemy's names can find a place at all, and so many of those even that appear on the map are admitted by its author to rest upon very dubious authority; that we remain almost wholly in the dark as to the greater part of his voluminous catalogues; and are equally unable to identify the localities which he meant to designate, and to pronounce an opinion upon the real value of his materials."

Déscription of the furthest parts of Greater Asia, according to the existing provinces and Satrapies.

1. [Tenth Map]

of India within the River Ganges.

2. [Eleventh Map]

of India beyond the Ganges.

of the Sinai.

3. [Twelfth Map]

of the Island of Taprobané and the islands surrounding it.

4. Outline Sketch of the Map of the Inhabited World.

Delineation of the Armillary Sphere with the Inhabited World.

Sketch of the World in Projection.

[5. There arc 400 Provinces and 30 Maps.]