Every one who undertakes to give an accurate description of a place should be particular to add its astronomical and geometrical relations explaining carefully its extent distance degrees of latitude and "climate." Even a builder before constructing a house or an architect before laying out a city would take these things into consideration; much more should he who examines the whole earth: for such things in a peculiar manner belong to him. In small distances a little deviation north or south does not signify but when it is the whole circle of the earth the north extends to the furthest confines of Scythia or Keltica and the south to the extremities of Ethiopia: there is a wide difference here. The case is the same should we inhabit India or Spain one in the east the other far west and as we are aware the antipodes to each other.