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Volume 4 · 86 words · 1842 Edition

Michael Anthony, a geographer, born at Paris on the 18th July 1633. He travelled into several countries, and then applied himself to the revision of Fer- rarus's Geographical Dictionary, which he enlarged to the extent of one half. He wrote, 1. Notes to Papirius Masso's Description of the Rivers of France; 2. A Geographical and Historical Dictionary; 3. Christian Geography, or an Account of the Archbishops and Bishoprics of the whole world; and constructed several maps. He died at Paris on the 29th of May 1700.