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Library: Dumfries Presbytery Library. Register: Issue Book (Type: Professorial). Page: 16

Gordon's Geographical Grammar 

Borrowed: 1737/5/11 (Saturday).


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John Scott
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1697-1770.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland.


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Patrick Gordon (Male)
Genre: Education, Genre: Travel
Geography anatomiz’d: or, the compleat geographical grammar. Being a short and exact analysis of the whole body of modern geography, after a new and curious method. Comprehending I. A general view of the terraqueous globe. Being a compendious system of the true fundamental of geography; digested into various definitions, problems, theorems, and paradoxes: with a transient survey of the whole surface of the earthly ball, as it consists of land and water. II. A particular view of the terraqueous globe. Being a clear and pleasant prospect of all remarkable countries upon the face of the whole earth; shewing their situation, extent, division, subdivision, cities, chief towns, name, air, soil, commodities, rarities, archbishopricks, bishopricks, universities, manners, language, government, arms religion. Collected from the best authors, and illustrated with divers maps. The second edition much improv’d and enlarg’d. By Pat. Gordon, M.A. and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Classmark: 6.