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1766. 37 A FARTHER APPEAL to the unprejudiced judgment of mankind

in behalf of the Indians, &c.

8vo.

M. R. xxxiv., p. 326.

London.

38 VOYAGES ET DÉCOUVERTES faites par les Russes le long des
côtes de la Mer Glaciale et sur l'ocean oriental, tant vers le
Japon que vers l'Amerique. On y a joint l'histoire du Fleuve
Amur et des Pays adjacents, depuis la conquête des Russes
avec la nouvelle carte qui présente ces découvertes et le cours
de l'Amur, dressée sur des mémoires authentiques publiée par
l'academie des sciences de St. Petersburg, et corrigee en
dernier lieu. Ouvrages traduits de l'Allemand de Mr. G. P.
Muller, par C. G. F. Dumas.
12mo. 2 vols. &c.

Amsterdam.

MDCCLXVII.

1 A NEW COLLECTION of voyages, discoveries, and travels; containing whatever is worthy of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, &c. The whole consisting of such English and foreign authors as are in most esteem; including the descriptions and remarks of some late celebrated travellers, not to be found in any other collection. Illustrated with a variety of accurate maps, plans, and elegant engravings. London.

8vo. 7 vols.

2 AN ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERIES made in the south Pacifick Ocean, previous to 1764. Part I. containing, 1. A geographical description of places. 11. An examination of the conduct of the discoverers in the tracks they pursued. III. Investigations

of what may be further expected.

8vo. pp. 31; and 103, 4 maps and plates.

London.

By Alexander Dalrymple. In his Historical Collection, printed in 1770, he states that only a few copies were printed, and that it was not published until some time after, when it was reported that the French had discovered the Southern continent, the great object of all his researches. I have a copy with the plates on India paper.

3 A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD in his Majesty's ship the Dolphin, commanded by the Hon. Commodore Byron. In which is contained a faithful account of the several places, people, plants, animals, &c. seen on the voyage: and, among other particulars, a minute and exact description of the streights of 1767. Magellan, and of the gigantic people called Patagonians.

Together with an accurate account of seven islands lately dis-
covered in the South Seas. By an officer on board the said

ship.

London.

8vo. pp. 186; pl. 3.

4* HORTUS EUROPE AMERICANUS: or a collection of eighty-five curious trees and shrubs, the produce of North America, adapted to the climate and soil of Great Britain.

Quarto, 17 plates.

London.

This work was prepared by Catesby, and published after his death. Copies of it appear to be uncommon.

5 THE PRESENT STATE of Great Britain and North America, with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered: containing a particular account of the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter. In which the causes and consequences of these growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; the proper regulations for the colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, &c.

8vo. pp. 363. London. "The author of this treatise appears to be well acquainted with the true interest, nature, and state of most of our different colonies, in some of which he is supposed to have resided many years, though at present in England." M. R. Written by Dr. Mitchil. Allen.

6 TWO PAPERS on the subject of taxing the British colonies in

America.

8vo. pp. 22.

London.

From the preface it appears that these two papers were first printed in 1739, and that they were drawn up hy a club of American merchants, at the head of whom were Sir William Keith, Mr. Joshua Gee, and other eminent persons.

7 AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT of the proceedings of the Congress held at New-York, in 1765, on the subject of the American stamp

act.

London.

8vo. pp. 37.

Without either printer or publisher's name.

1767. 8 THE EXAMINATION OF DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN before an

Honourable Assembly, relative to the repeal of the American

stamp act, in 1766.

8vo. pp. 50.

No printer or publisher's name.

London.

9 A LETTER TO G. G.
8vo. pp. 96.

"Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong." London.

"This letter to Lord George Grenville, if not the most elegant or the most
correct of our late political disquisitions, is one of the most solid and most
intelligent, and is evidently the produce of no vulgar pen, no ill-instructed
hand. It is intended as an answer to some publications in defence of
Mr. Grenville's ministerial measures." M. R.

10 EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS on American potashes, with
an easy method of determining their respective qualities. By
W. Lewis, M. B. F. R.S. Made at the request of the society
for encouragement of arts, &c. in consequence of an application
from the House of Representatives of Massachusetts Bay.
8vo. pp. 34.

London.

Printed by order of the society of arts, manufactures, and commerce. 11 A CAUTION TO GREAT BRITAIN and her colonies, in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved negroes, in the British dominions. By Ant. Benezet.

8vo. pp. 46.

London.

12 ESSAI sur cette question, Quand et comment l'Amerique a-telle été peuplée d'hommes et d'animaux? Par E. B. d'E.

12mo. 5 vols.

Amsterdam.

By the Bailly d'Engel. An edition in one volume, in quarto, was published at the same time. The question, which, according to the title, ought to constitute the principal matter of this work, occupies but a small part of it. Engel's French works are so full of germanisms, that it is fatiguing to read them. Biog. Univ.

13 MEMOIRES GEOGRAPHIQUES, PHYSIQUES, ET HISTORIQUES sur l'Asie, l'Afrique, et l'Amerique. Tirés des lettres Edifiantes, et des voyages des Missionnaires Jésuites. Par l'Auteur de Melange interessans et curieux.

12mo. 4 vols.

Paris.

By M. Rousselet de Surgy. The fourth volume relates entirely to America. 14 HISTOIRE DE LA NOUVELLE-YORK, depuis la découverte de cette province jusqu'à notre siècle, &c. Par William Smith.

Traduite de l'Anglois par M. Ε.

12mo. pp. 415.

Londres (Paris.) 1767.

The translator was M. Eidous. The original work was first printed in 1757.

15* LETTRE AU DOCTEUR MATI, sur les géans Patagons. 12mo.

By the Abbé Coyer.

Bruxelles (Paris.)

16 COLECCION GENERAL de las Providencias hasta aqui tomadas por el Gobierno sobre el estrañamiento y ocupacion de temporalidades de los Regulares de la compañia, que existian en los dominios de S. M. de España, Indias, e Islas Filipinas, à consequencia del Real decreto de 27 de Febrero, y Pragmaticasancion de 2 de Avril de este año.

Quarto.

Madrid.

This collection of decrees relating to the expulsion of the Jesuits consists
of five parts, the last of which was printed in 1784. They are rarely met
with together.

17 INFORME DEL VISITADOR GENERAL DE NUEVA ESPAÑA al
Marques de Croix, Virrey, &c. del mismo reyno. Sobre los
motivos de la expedicion hecha en las provincias internas,
causas que ha formado y providencias que deja dadas para su
pacificacion.
(Mexico.)

4to. pp. 150.

Without printer's name, year, or place, but dated at the end, Mexico, Dec. 25, 1767; at which place, and at about that time, there can be no doubt of its having been printed. It is signed Joseph de Galvez, apparently a different person from the minister of the same name who was sent to Mexico a few years later, to settle a dispute between the Viceroy and the Audiencia. The expedition to which the present work relates was undertaken to take preparatory measures for expelling the Jesuits.

MDCCLXVIII.

1 THE JOURNAL of a two months' tour; with a view of promoting religion among the frontier inhabitants of Pensylvania, and of introducing Christianity among the Indians, to the westward of the Alegh-geny mountains. To which are added, remarks on the language and customs of some particular tribes among the Indians, with a brief account of the various attempts that have been made to civilize and convert them, from the first settlement of New England to this day. By Charles Beatty,

Α.Μ.

8vo. pp. 110.

London.

M

1768.

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This journal, though chiefly of a religious cast, is enlivened with many agreeable notes and circumstances relating to the manners and customs of the Delaware Indians, who, from certain similar customs and some traditions among them, the author conjectures to be the descendants of the ten tribes of Israel, which has also been suggested in regard to the natives of other parts of America.

2 A SHORT HISTORY of Barbados, from its first discovery and settlement, to the end of the year 1767. London.

Small 8vo.

3 REMARKS upon a book intitled A short history of Barbados: in which the partial and unfair representations of the author, upon the subjects of his history in general, and upon that of the demand of privileges in particular, are detected and exposed. London.

8νο.

First printed in Barbados.

4 THE GREAT PROBABILITY OF A NORTH WEST PASSAGE: deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima, on the discovery of a communication between the South Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, and to intercept some navigators from Boston, in New England, whom he met with, then in search of a North West passage. Proving the authenticity of the admiral's letter. With three explanatory maps. By Thomas Jefferys. With an appendix, containing the account of a discovery of part of the coast and inland country of Labrador, made in 1753. The whole intended for the advancement of trade and commerce.

Quarto, pp. (186.)

London.

Watts

Jefferys was not the author, his name being on the title merely in reference
to the maps, which were prepared by him. He was also the publisher.
The author is said by Meusel to have been Theodore Swindrage.
calls the author Dragge, who was probably the clerk of the California.
(See 1748.)

5 A GENERAL TOPOGRAPHY of North America and the West
Indies: being a collection of all the maps, charts, plans and
particular surveys, that have been published, of that part of
the world, in Europe or America. Engraved by Thos. Jefferys,
geographer to the King, &c.

Folio.

London.

6 THE NARRATIVE OF THE HON. JOHN BYRON, (Commodore in a late expedition round the world,) containing an account of the

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