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:;,8 GERMANY.
fSaxonv.
the circle of the Loiver-Saxony. On account of the nomination to the five
latter places, the higher States of the circle, notwithftanding the oppolition
formed by the Counts and Lords in the recefs of the circle of the year
1654, came to a refolution that it (liould happen in fuch manner alternately
by the colledive States of the circle, agreeably to the number and order of
their voices, and that the eledoral and princely houfes, quite down to Anhalt,
fliould, according to the order and number of their voices, each name
one aflefibr of the chamber-court, the three foundations one, and the Counts
and Lords alfo one : but the alternate nomination of an alTeffor between
this and the circle of Lower- Saxojiy, is not at prefent kept up, the whole
circle now adually nominating only two afleflbrs of the chamber-court,
agreeably
the
circle.
to the regulation concluded upon in the aforementioned recefs of
§.7. In the year 1571, the towns of Lf?/'2;/^, Berlin^ StettmiSinASaalJeld
were appointed mint-towns to Upper-Saxony. The laft mint-proof of this
circle was held, in 1680, at Francfort on the Oder ; fince which time they
have been difcontinued.
"The
Electorate of
S A X o N r.
§. I. A BAM FREDERICK ZURNER, who was firft curate at
-^^ Ska/fa, and afterwards geographer and land and limit-commiflary
to the King of Poland, Eledtor of Saxony, has, at the command ofyfwffiillus
U. rnea(ured and delineated, with uncommon fkill and application,
the eledoral Saxon territories. From thefe his labours and drawings fprung
up the very mao-nificent Atlas Augu/icui, which is kept at Drefden, andconfifts
of a weneral and fpecial part, each of which contains forty charts in the
ufual large fize. A more accurate defcription of it is to be found in Dr.
Eberh. Dav. Haubers additions and improvements to his Sketch of a circumftantial
hiftory of land-charts, p.
1 1 .
feq. Were thefe charts but rendered
ftill more perfeft by fome new refearches and labours, and permitted to be
en^^raved and publiflied, they would form an excellent Atlas: but thofe
only of the fuperintendencies of Großn-Hayn and Drefden have been made
public ; though there are many drawings of Zumer's, which falling into
Peter Schenk's hands furniHied him with an opportunity of collefting a Saxon
Atlas, to which, in the year 1751, was added what is called a Complete Geographical
Defcription ; but this laft is very defedive and erroneous. Schreiber
alfo, together with Seutter dinA Ho)nami% heirs, have publiflied a great number