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T could not be expected that an assertion of London's being bigger than Paris and Rouen, or than Paris and Rome put together, and bigger than any City of the World, should scape uncontradicted ; and 'tis also expected, that I (if continuing in the same persuasion) should make some reply to those contradictions. In order whereunto,

I begin with the ingenious Authour of the Republiq des Lettres, who saith that Rey in Persia is far bigger than