Ireland. Or a booke : together with an exact mappe of the most principall townes, great and small, in the said kingdome. Wherein the longitude, latitude, and distance of one towne from another, as also the county or province such place is in, alphabetically set down. Very usefull for all sorts of people, that have or may have any interest in that kingdome.

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London :: Printed for Iohn Rothwell, at the signe of the Sun and Fountain, in Pauls Church yard,

1647.

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"Ireland. Or a booke : together with an exact mappe of the most principall townes, great and small, in the said kingdome. Wherein the longitude, latitude, and distance of one towne from another, as also the county or province such place is in, alphabetically set down. Very usefull for all sorts of people, that have or may have any interest in that kingdome." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A87197.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.

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How to know the longitude, and the latitude, and the degrees, and the minutes.

ON the top of the Mapp of Ireland, you shall finde written longitude, and on the side of the Mapp of Ireland, you shall finde written latitude, the degrees are mar∣ked with figures, the minutes are the black and the white: that you see every blacke is 4. minutes, and so is a white; at every twentieth minute there is a small stroke: there is three of them small strokes between every degree, which is 60 minutes, which makes a degree, every black and white be∣ing 4. minutes.