The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more / invented and described by the Right Honorable, the Earl of Castlemaine ; and now publish't by Joseph Moxon ...

A Postscript concerning the Erratas, and the Geographical part of this GLOBE.

THE Erratas of the Press being many, I shall not set them down in a distinct Catalogue as usually, least the sight of them should more displease, than the particulars advantage, especially since they are not so material or intricate, but that any man may (I hope) easily mend them in the very reading. I confess I have bin in a manner the occasion of them, by taking from the Noble Author a very foul Copy, when he desir'd me to stay till a fair one were written over, so that truly 'tis no wonder, if Workmen should in these cases not only sometimes leave out, but adde also, by taking one line for another, or not obser∣ving with exactness what words have bin wholly obliterated and dasht out.

As to the Geographical part of the Globe be pleased to take notice that 1st, The Terms or Bounds betwixt EƲROPE and ASIA, or between ASIA and AFRICA, are Strokes and Pricks—thus: between great Empires, single Strokes in this manner—; and between Province and Pro∣vince only Pricks. And by the way, the Author calls here an Empire, every great Tract of ground of one Appellation, as Barbary and Zara in Affric, Siam and Pegu in Asia, I∣taly and Germany in Europe, as well as France; Spain, Persia, &c. that belong to one only Prince. These Empires are in lit∣tle Capital Letters, but the Provinces or subdivided Kingdoms are in Round Roman, as Algiers and Tunis in BARBARY, Pomeren and Austria in GERMANY, &c. and for the Towns as London, Paris; Venice, &c. they are generally in Italick, but when they happen to be in Round Roman, as Fez; Morocco, Agra, &c. it shews that the Province gives the Name to the Capital City; for the Name properly belongs to the Province, but to save trouble and room it is now by a Reference or Dash joyn'd to the Town.

2. The Old Name of any place is in Old Hand, and when

it belongs to an Empire, 'tis very big, as Sarmatia, Ethiopia, &c. when a Province, a great deal less, as Mesopotamia, Caldea, Assyria and the like, and when a Town very little, as Hippo, Cyrene, and so forth.

3. The Hills that are exprest have all before them the Let∣ter M, and the Capes the Letter C, but the Rivers have eithe either an R or else sl. after them; and whereas some Old names, as Thule, Ophir, &c. are repeated, it is to shew where One Author would have their situation to be, and where Another.

But be pleas'd to remember, that whereas his Lordship did Direct in this * 1.1 Treatise, that the Grand Meridian should pass throu' St. Vincent, I have presum'd to draw it over St. Mary and St. Michael, 2 Isles of the Azores; for truly thus it suits best (according to my Tables) with the 2 a Clock Circle, as his Lordship would have it do.

Notes

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