New_System_of_Geogra.. - Medievalcoinage.com

[ '150 ]
CIRCLE
THE
O F
S W A B I A.
Of SW AB I
A w general,
§. I. /'^ F the maps of Sioabla and its Circle, Mr. Eberhard David
V_^ Hauber, in the year 1724, publiflied a very rational, exaft and
complete hiftory; which about three years after appeared, with additions
and amendments, in his Difccurfe en the Prefent State of Geography. From
thence we learn, that the firft maps of Sioabia are to be feen in Munßer's
Cojtnography; that the fecond, which Ortelins has inferted in his Theatrum,
were publifhed in the years 1579 and 1591, by David Selzlin, or Selzl, and
have been copied by John Biichfenmacher and Daniel Manajfer ; that the
map put forth by yodcchus, Henry Hondius and IFilliam Biacuiv was
fomething better, and reduced, without alterations, to a fmaller fcale by
Chrißophcr Weigel, and improved by John Janjon : that this is the map
which Waesberge, Peter Schejik and Gerhard Valk afterwards publiHied under
their own names ; and, laftly, that from the map of Blaeww and Janfony
'Jacob Sandrart compofed his of S'wabia.
§. 2. Sivabia lies, to the weft and eaft, betwixt the rivers Rhine and
Lech; to the fouth, it terminates on Switzerland, the Bodenfee * and the
yiußrian
* Of the Bodenfee, which is alfo called the Lnte of Con/Jmice znA Bregenz, and by the vulgar
the German Sea, and in Latin, Lacui Bcdamkus, or Potamicus, a map was publiflied bv fohn
Gc-rge Schhihain, in the year 1578, and in 1675 by another artift, with the fignature of
A. A, S. J. and this has been engraved by one of the name of Hanip. A draught of it is alfo
to