''The Classical Gazetteer'' is a short descriptive geographical dictionary by

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(son of the critic

), written in 1851 and containing 15,000 places of Greek and Roman antiquity without citation of

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''The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane'', Whittaker, 1851
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