[P] _Guntz_, a small Town, situate upon a River of the same name in _Lower Hungary_.
[Q] _Gratz_, the Capital City of _Stiria_; it stands upon the River _Mure_, twenty Miles from _Vienna_ to the South.
[R] _Tunis_, the _Capital_ of a Country of the same name, is a large City, five Miles in circumference. It a noble Port on the Coast of _Barbary_, upon the _Mediterranean_, about eight Leagues from old _Carthage_, the Birth-place of the famous _Hannibal_. This City has had more Revolutions and Masters than any City in the Universe: but since 1570 it has remain’d in the possession of Kings of their own, till the Line was extinct; and is now govern’d by a Bey as a Commonwealth, under the Protection of the _Turk_.
[S] _Nice_, the Capital of _Bythinia_, (the old _Antigonia_.) This City is remarkable for that famous _Council_ held against _Arianism_, relating to the time of celebrating _Easter_ among the Christians, with some Points of Church-Discipline, in the Imperial Palace of _Constantine_ the _Great_, in the Year 325 of Christianity. There was another design’d in the Year 359, but prevented by a sudden Earthquake, which destroy’d a great part of the City. There was another Council assembled in the Year 787, made up of three hundred and fifty Bishops. _Nice_ was taken by _Godfrey_ of _Boloigne_ in his way to _Jerusalem_ in order to commence the Holy War, that cost so many thousand Lives, and drain’d the Purses of almost all _Europe_.
[T] _Tauris_ (the old _Ecbatana_) the second City in the _Kingdom_ of _Persia_, situated about thirty Miles from the _Caspian Sea_. In 849 it was deftroy’d by an Earthquake, very frequent in those mountainous Countries. It underwent several Revolutions between the _Turks_ and _Persians_, but now it remains in the hands of the famous _Kouli Kan_.
[U] _Babylon_ (or _Bagdat_ by the _Turks_ and _Persians_) is a City celebrated in _sacred_ and _profane History_. It is built upon the Banks of the famous River _Euphrates_, that had its spring from _Paradise_ itself. It is said the Builder was _Nimrod_, the Grandchild of _Noah_. The Walls were formerly forty-eight Miles in compass, and so broad that two Chariots might pass each other. _Alexander_ in one of his Victories made this Conquest, and in this City, Death put a slop to all his Glories, and from seeking to be Master of the World, he only found a Grave. _Grand Cairo_ in Egypt is founded on another _Babylon_; from whence St. _Peter_ wrote his first _Epistle_. This City is built upon the Banks of the famous River _Nile_, whose overflowings inriches the Earth without Tillage.