_Latin Names of Towns_ (Vol. v., p. 235.).--I transcribe, for the
benefit of your readers, the full title of the largest Geographical
Dictionary which I know to contain the information M. asks for. Dr.
William Smith's _New Dictionary of Classical Geography_ may be expected
to supply the desideratum, in regard to places known to the Greeks and
Romans, but will not, I presume, take up all the names in Baudrand's
_Dictionary_. Its title-page reads as follows:
"Novum Lexicon Geographicum, in quo universi orbis oppida, urbes,
regiones, provinciæ, regna, emporia, academiæ, metropoles, flumina
et maria, _antiquis et recentibus nominibus appellata_, suisque
distantiis descripta, recensentur. Illud primum in lucem edidit
Philippus Ferrarius Alexandrinus, totius servorum coetus supremus
Præsul, S. T. D. atque in Ticinensi Academia publicus Metaphysices
et Mathematices Professor.
"Nunc Vero Michael Antonius Baudrand, Parisinus, prior
commendatarius de roboribus, de novo mercato, et de Gessenis,
hanc ultimam editionem, ita emendavit, illustravit, dimidiàque
parte auctiorem fecit, ut Novum Lexicon jure optimo dicatur.
"Accesserunt sub finem Dominici Magri, Melitensis, Theologi,
Cathedr. Viterb., &c., appendices et correctiones: atque in has M.
A. Baudrand notæ."
The work is very useful, but of course no longer new. It is in two thin
folios, and was printed at Eisenach in MDCLXXVII., by John Peter
Schmidt.