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would be an important & valuable addition to this branch of knowledge. It might commence with the Sphere of Anaximander who probably first constructed Maps according to the testimony of Laertius who says [See image for words written possibly in Greek.] After recording the labours of Artemidorus, Hipparchus, Polybius, Strabo, Pomponius Mela, Ptolemy & various others,& likewise the Voyages of the Carthaginians, the Subject would be brought down to the period of the Peutingerian Tables, of which accurate Copies ought to be made for the purpose of engraving. The Geography of the middle Ages would furnish some curious materials - such as the Christian Topography of the Monk Cosimo Indopleurte, who lived ab.t the middle of the 6th Century & whose original Mss are in the Laurentian Library & have been particularly described by Baudini. The Geographer of Ravenna, & a Ms: of the 8th Century entitled - De Mensura Provinciarum Orbis Terrae, by a Monk of the name of Dicuil, with some others, might be added. The History of the Arabian Geographers would succeed, & a detailed acc.t of the more recently constructed Geographical Charts now concealed in Foreign Libraries, of which accurate Copies ought to be obtained might complete the Work. In this last division, the following Maps among others might be given. 1. That which is preserved at the Roy.l [Royal] Academy of Petersburg, 2. The Map & Ms. of the 13th Century in the Library of The Genevieve, 3. The Marine Charts of Pietro Visconti a Genoese dated 1318 & preserved in the Imp.l Library at Vienna, 4. Those of Marino Sanuto