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Excerpt from A General Gazetteer, or Compendious Geographical Dictionary: Containing a Description of the Nations, Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces, Cities, Towns, Ports, Seas, Harbours, Rivers, Lakes, Canals, Mountains, Capes, &C. In the Known World
The term Universe com rebonds the whole frame of nature, to the utmost extent of Creation, but by the [or Systems is meant that portion of the universe which comprehends the Sun, planets, satellites, and comets. The Sun is the centre of this system, and there are nine planets, each in its orbit, which revolve around him. The names of these, according to their distance from the Sun, are, Mer cury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Ceres', Pallas Jupiter, Saturn, and the Georgian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
