"The Description confider'd as to Form is of three Sorts; The first exhibits the Earth, by a Draught or Delineation; the second by Tables, or Registers; and the third by Treties or Discourse. Hence Technical Geography may be divided into Representatory, Synoptical, and Explanatory."
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From Edward Cave's 1749 book Geography reformed: a new system of general geography, according to an accurate analysis of the science in four parts. The whole illustrated with notes (Page 250).
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