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America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the Nevv VVorld: Containing the Original of the Inhabitants, and the Remarkable Voyages Thither. The Conquest of the Vast Empires of Mexico and Peru, and Other Large Provinces and Territories, with the Several European Plantations in Those Parts. Also Their Cities, Fortresses, Towns, Temples, Mountains, and Rivers. Their Habits, Customs, Manners, and Religions. Their Plants, Beasts, Birds, and Serpents. With an Appendix, Containing, Bes — John Shaqi

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America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the Nevv VVorld: Containing the Original of the Inhabitants, and the Remarkable Voyages Thither. The Conquest of the Vast Empires of Mexico and Peru, and Other Large Provinces and Territories, with the Several European Plantations in Those Parts. Also Their Cities, Fortresses, Towns, Temples, Mountains, and Rivers. Their Habits, Customs, Manners, and Religions. Their Plants, Beasts, Birds, and Serpents. With an Appendix, Containing, Bes

Ogilby, John

America

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                                AMERICA:
                       BEING THE LATEST, AND MOST
                          ACCURATE DESCRIPTION
                                 OF THE
                              NEVV VVORLD;
                               CONTAINING
  The Original of the Inhabitants, and the Remarkable Voyages thither.
                        THE CONQUEST OF THE VAST
                                EMPIRES
                                   OF
                            Mexico and Peru,
                            AND OTHER LARGE
                       PROVINCES and TERRITORIES,
                      WITH THE SEVERAL _EUROPEAN_
                              PLANTATIONS
                            IN THOSE PARTS.
                                  ALSO
               Their Cities, Fortresses, Towns, Temples,
                         Mountains, and Rivers.
             Their Habits, Customs, Manners, and Religions.
               Their Plants, Beasts, Birds, and Serpents.
                                  WITH
An _APPENDIX_, containing, besides several other considerable Additions,
a brief Survey of what hath been discover’d of the _Unknown South-Land_
                       and the _Arctick Region_.


       Collected from most Authentick Authors, Augmented with later
   Observations, and Adorn’d with Maps and Sculptures, by _JOHN OGILBY_
 Esq; His Majesty’s _Cosmographer_, _Geographick Printer_, and Master of
                the _Revels_ in the Kingdom of _IRELAND_.

                                _LONDON_,
         Printed by the Author, and are to be had at his House in
                       _White Fryers, M. DC. LXXI_.

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 A Catalogue of the Authors, which are either mention’d, or made use of
                      in this Volume of _America_.


 _Abraham Mellinus_
 _Abraham Mylius_
 _Adriaen vander Donk_
 _Ælian_
 _Albertus Magnus_
 _Aldrete_
 _Ælius Lampridius_
 _Alexander Aphrodiensis_
 _Alexander ab Alexandro_
 _Alexander Guaginus_
 _Alonso Garcia_
 _Alonso de Ouagli_
 _Andræas Cæsariensis_
 _Angrin Jonas_
 _Antonio de Herrera_
 _Apuleius_
 _Aristonicus Grammaticus_
 _Aristotle_
 _Athanasius Kircher_
 _Augustinus_
 _Augustin de Tarcate_
 _Augustus Thuanus_
 _Ayton of Armenia_

 _Balthazar de Amizquita_
 _Barnaba Cabo_
 _Bartholomæo de las Casas_
 _Benjamin Tudalensis_

 _Caspar Barlæus_
 _Castaldus_
 _Charles Rochfort_
 _Christopher Arcisseuski_
 _Cicero_
 _Claude de Abbeville_
 _Clemens Alexandrinus_
 _Conradus Gesner_
 _Cornelius Nepos_
 _Cornelius Witfleet_
 _Ctesias_
 _Curtius_
 _Cyrianus_

 _David Ingran_
 _David Powel_
 _Diodorus Siculus_
 _Dionysius Halicarnassæus_
 _Dirk Ruiters_
 _Dithmar Blefken_
 _Duarte Mendez Seraon_

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