@article{665803,
      recid = {665803},
      author = {Brookes, R.},
      title = {The modern gazetteer: or Compendious geographical  dictionary. Containing a description of all the ...pires,  ...ngdoms, ...ates, ...publicks, ...ovinces, ...ties, chief  towns, forts, fortresses, castles, citadles, seas,  harbours, bays, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, and  promontories. In the known world; together with the  government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the  inhabitants. The ...tent, bounds, and natural productions  of each country; and the trade, manufactures, and  curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude,  latitude, beating and distances in English miles from  remarkable places; as also ... sieges they have undergone,  and the battles that have been fought near them,  particularly those of the last war; attention has also been  paid to the partition made by the late treaty of peace. In  the articles of Ireland and America all advantages have  been taken of whatever has been hitherto wrote, with many  thousand additions, not to be found in any other  geographical dictionary of gazetteer. The second edition,  carefully corrected, with a collection of modern maps,  those of Germany and America, will illustrate the theatre  of the late war, (carefully attended to in this work the  latter in particular points out, the now British Empire  there, with the late conquests. R. Brookes, M.D. author of  The new system of natural history. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {[Pri]nted for W. and W. Smith, J. Exshaw and T. Dxton,},
      address = {Dublin :},
      pages = {vii,[633]p.,plates :},
      year = {1765},
      note = {Reproduction of original from National Library of  Ireland.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/665803},
}