Excerpt from The Modern Gazetteer, or a Short View of the Several Nations of the World: Absolutely Necessary for Rendering the Public News, and Other Historical Occurrences, Intelligible and Entertaining The place where any one (lands, is the Center oi his Horizon and Hemifphere, and the Poles of his Horizon are the fame as two imaginary points a in the heavens, called the Zenith and Zenith andn Nadir; the Zenith being the vertical dir. Point diree'cly over his head.; and the 5 Nadir that point of the heavens under his feet, diametri cally oppolite to the Zenith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.