The river St Lucia still remains in our maps in the latitude indicated, but the other names in the text are unknown in modern geography.
Footnote 275: In Purchas these two last mentioned places are named Dalaqua and Xamea, the Portuguese expressing our k by qu, and our sh by x; but we have preferred the more ordinary mode of spelling in modern geography.
Footnote 59: Turon is the port of Cochin-China in the present time, and Quinham is unknown in modern geography; perhaps the old name of some island or village at the port or bay of Turon.
The name used in the text must be taken from the native language, while that of modern geography is the Persian, Mogul, or Arabic name of the place.
Footnote 41: This personage must have been governor of one of the provinces, islands, or towns of Japan; but no place in that eastern empire bears a name in modern geography which in the smallest degree resembles Crats.
A good account of the present state of these immense regions will be found in Pinkerton's Modern Geography, articles Independent Tartary, Chinese Tartary, and Asiatic Russia.
From this kingdom or division of the island, it probably acquired the name of Sumatra, by which it is known in modern geography.
Other tracks laid down are equally preposterous in the eyes of modern geography.
Magellan gave the name of Ladrones to these islands,--a name which they retain in modern geography, though, in the time of Philip IV.
We have been thus particular in describing the principal maps of this work, as they prove how imperfect geography was, prior to the time of Mercator, and with how much justice it may be said that he is the father of modern geography.
Footnote 174: This probably is that named Nisperal in modern geography, the appellation in the text being the Spanish name, and the other the name given by the Indians.
In modern geography, Guaham and Tinian are the largest islands of the group.
Footnote 9: Not one of these islands is known to modern geography; and the whole of this voyage is related so loosely and unsatisfactorily, that it is impossible to trace its course, except at well-known places.
Forming a Companion to ‘The Public Schools Atlas of Modern Geography.
Down to the middle of the sixteenth century it usually found a place on maps of the Western Ocean, usually due west of Ireland (see Dawn of Modern Geography, pp.
Santarem's commentary here needs a word of supplement, which we take from the Dawn of Modern Geography, pp.
In the earlier Middle Ages, some of the Christian Republics of Italy even joined Moslems in slave-raiding upon other Christians (see Dawn of Modern Geography, pp.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modern geography" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
