a general gazetteer or record of a province, documenting its history, geography, customs, and people, as distinct from a county gazetteer

(proper noun) an encyclopedic history of China written by Zheng Qiao during the Song dynasty, covering the period from antiquity to the Sui dynasty; one of the three great reference works known as the 三通 sān​tōng

(literary) to express or communicate one's thoughts and will