1720. against Canada, which sailed from Boston, N. E. in the summer of 1711; but which proved a complete failure, owing, it was said, to the unskilfulness of the pilots, by which eight ships and nearly a thousand men were lost in the river St. Lawrence. Great blame was attached to Sir Hovenden, and he published this account in his own vindication. See Nichols' Lit. Anec. I. p. 178. 8 RELATIONS de la Louisiane et du Fleuve Mississippi. Ou l'on voit l'etat de ce grand pays et les avantages qu'il peut produire, &c. Amsterdam. 12mo. This volume is dedicated to the celebrated Law; its contents are the same as the fifth volume of Bernard's Collection, 1715. 9 RECUEIL D'ARRESTS et autres pieces pour l'etablissement de la Compagnie d'Occident.-Relation de la Baie de Hudson.Les navigations de Frobisher au detroit qui porte son nom. 12mo. Amsterdam. Part of this volume corresponds to the fifth volume of Bernard's Collection of 1715; but the Recueil d'Arrests, &c. is not contained in that edition. It is a collection of documents relating to the far-famed Company of the West, better known as the Mississippi Company, of which Law was the projector. 10 VOYAGE DE MARSEILLE À LIMA et dans les autres lieux des Indes Occidentales. Avec une exacte description de ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable tant pour la geographie, que pour les mœurs, les coûtumes, le commerce, le gouvernement, et la religion des peuples; avec des notes et des figures en taille douce. Par le Sieur D***. Paris. 12mo. The dedication is signed "Durrett," who says he prepared the work for the press, from the relations of a surgeon of the name of Bachelier. Father Labat, however, says that the work was entirely composed by Durrett, from the relations of Feuille, with the addition of extracts from various other authors, without any acknowledgment. 11 PROYECTO PARA GALEONES y Flotas del Peru y Nueva España y para Navios de Registro, y avisos, que navegaren à ambos Reynos. Cadiz. Folio, pp. 26. MDCCXXΙ. 1 A DEFENCE of the New England charters. By Jer. Dummer. Pulchrum est Patriæ benefacere, etiam benedicere haud ab surdum est. 8vo. pp. 60. Sallust. London. Dummer was the agent of Massachusetts in England, and a distinguished 1721. scholar. "This very able defence was written some time before; but it was now published in the apprehension that a bill would be brought into the House of Commons at their next session to disfranchise the charter governments." Holmes. Reprinted in 1766. 2 INDIA CHRISTIANA. A discourse delivered unto the commissioners for the propagation of the gospel among the American Indians, &c. By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F. R. S. 12mo. pp. 94. Boston, N. E. 3 THE LAWS OF THE BRITISH PLANTATIONS in America, relating to the church and the clergy, religion and learning. Collected in one volume. By Nicholas Trott, LL. D., Chief Justice of the province of South Carolina. London. Folio. A scarce and valuable collection, in the preface to which is given an account of all the different collections of colonial laws which had been printed at the time. All those relating to ecclesiastical affairs which had not been printed were transcribed from the copies sent out to the Plantation office, or taken from other authentic sources. 4 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY passed in the island of Barbadoes from 1648 to 1718. London. Folio. 5 THE SEVERAL REPORTS of the Committee of Secrecy to the Folio, pp. 74. 6 PROCEEDINGS of the House of Lords in relation to the late Directors of the South Sea Company and others; with the Reports of their Lordships on the said proceedings: to which is added, the conference with the Commons relating to Mr. Aislabie and Mr. Craggs, with their Lordships' proceedings thereupon. Folio, pp. 26. MDCCXXII. London. 1 A DESCRIPTION of the English province of Carolana, by the Spaniards called Florida, and by the French La Louisiane. As also of the great and famous river Meschacebe or Missisipi, the five vast navigable lakes of fresh water, and the parts adjacent. Together with an account of the commodities, of 1722. the growth and production of the said province. And a preface, containing some considerations on the consequences of the French making settlements there. By Daniel Coxe, esq. 8vo. map. London. A crude performance, drawn up from various journals and voyages, to impress the public with the great importance of the region described, and to make them jealous of its occupation by the French. Under the name of Carolana was comprehended the present state of Georgia, the two Floridas and Louisiana; and this whole territory was claimed by Dr. Coxe, the father of the author, as proprietor of it under the crown. North Am. Rev. 2, p. 1. Republished in 1727 and 1741. See 1705. 2 THE HISTORY OF VIRGINIA, in four parts, &c. 3 A GENERAL SURVEY of that part of the island of St. Christopher's which formerly belonged to France; and was yielded up to Great Britain for ever by the late treaty of Utrecht: together with an estimate of the value of those lands, and a proposal and scheme for raising a very considerable sum of money, for the use of the publick, on the produce thereof, &c In a letter to M. R., Esq. a member of the honourable House of Commons. By Mr. R. M., S. B. London. . 8vo. pp. 48. 4 *A VINDICATION of the ministers of Boston from the abuses and scandals lately cast upon them in diverse printed papers. By some of their people. 8vo. In the British Museum. Boston, N. Е. 5 VOYAGES DE FRANÇOIS COREAL aux Indes occidentales, contenant ce qu'il y a vû de plus remarquable pendant son sejour depuis 1666. Jusqu'a 1697. Traduites de l'Espagnol, avec une relation de la Guiane de Walter Raleigh, et le voyage de Narbrough à la mer du sud par le detroit de Magellan. 6 12mo. 3 vols. Amsterdam. -, nouvelle edition, corrigée et augmentée d'une nouvelle decouverte des Indes Meridionales et des terres Australe, enrichies de figures. Paris. 12mo. 2 vols. There appears to be no reason to doubt of the identity of Francis Coreal, 1722. or of the fact of his having visited the different countries he describes. The only motive for such a doubt arises from the work never having been printed in Spanish, and from the French editor making no mention of the source from whence he obtained the original. Coreal's relation occupies only one half of the work, the other half being made up of a selection from other authors, to which probably the judgment of Prosper Marchand, as quoted by MEUSEL, applies, viz. that the work consisted of a portion of fragments taken here and there from several effective voyages, by some starving compiler." This additional matter consists of Sir Walter Raleigh's voyage to Guiana. The discovery of the Palaos islands. Captain Narborough's voyage to the South Sea. Voyage of Abel Jansen Tasman to the Terra Australis. Letter on the Mission of the Moxes. Account of Alvaro de Mendana's voyages. Discoveries of Quiros. A certain Rev. Doctor "stuck his spurs so hard into the side of his good bibliographical courser," that he leapt over a good part of the title of this book, as given in Meusel, and makes out "COREAL'S Voyages en les Indes occidentales, &c. to be a translation of the Flemish journal of Capt. Abel Jansen Tasman!" This Flemish journal is merely one of the before-mentioned relations. 7 HISTOIRE DE L'AMERIQUE SEPENTRIONALE par M. de Bacqueville de la Potherie, nè à la Guadaloupe dans l'Amerique meridionale, aide-major dans la dire isle. 12mo. 4 vols. Paris. This work is written in the form of letters, except the second volume, which is divided into chapters. It contains several badly written memoirs on a considerable portion of the history of Canada. What the author relates, from his own observation, may be relied upon; but in other respects he was not well informed, although apparently sincere and dispassionate." Charlevoix. 8 NOUVEAU VOYAGE aux isles de l'Amerique, contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, l'origine, les mœurs, la religion et le gouvernement des habitans anciens and modernes. Les guerres et les evenemens singuliers qui y sont arrivez pendant le long sejour que l'auteur ya fait. Le commerce et les manufactures qui y sont établies, et les moyens de les augmenter. Avec une description exacte et curieuse de toutes ces isles. Ouvrage enrichi de plus de cent cartes, plans et figures en tailles douces. 12mo. 6 vols. Paris. The name of the author, F. Jean Baptiste Labat, is found affixed to the dedication to the Duc de Montmorency. Reprinted in quarto, at the Hague, in 1724, and with considerable additions, in 1742, at Paris. 1722. "A very pleasant and instructive work in many respects, but not always accurate as to facts. Chalmers. 9 HISTOIRE DE LA NAVIGATION, son commencement, son progrés, Paris. 12mo. 2 vols. This work is a translation, with some augmentations of the introduction to Churchill's Collection of Voyages. The French editor, in his preface, apologizes for the cruelties of the Spaniards to the Indians in this summary way: "It was difficult to use moderation towards beings human only in figure; finally, of these savages were made men, of these animals were made christians. God is adored where he was not known. The mission truly has not been like that of the first apostles, but the Gospel has been preached and received." 10 RELACION de la conquista de la provincia de los Nayaritas, en el Reyno de la Nueva España, que consiguieron las armas de S. M. à principios de este año de 1722. Madrid. Small 4to. pp. 32. 11 *ALLERÖLTESTE NACHRICHT von der Neuen Welt, welche dieser Erfinder derselben ehemals ertheilt von neuem edirt. Berlin. 8vo. This appears, from Meusel (III. 1. 265) to be a translation of Vesputius's account of his voyages. MDCCXXIII. 1 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY passed in the province of Maryland from London. 1692 to 1715. Folio. An abridgment of the laws of Maryland was printed in London in 1704: but an act of assembly was passed in the same year repealing all former acts, saving what are thereby excepted. A new collection under the title of "All the Laws of Maryland now in force," was printed at Annapolis in 1707, and another at Philadelphia in 1718, from which, it is probable, that the present edition was taken. 2 MŒURS DES SAUVAGES AMERIQUAINS comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps. Par le P. Lafitau, de la compagnie de Jesus. Ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce. Quarto, 2 vols. 41 plates. Paris. "This work was reprinted, badly enough the following year, at Rouen, in four volumes 12mo. It contains a great detail of the manners, customs, |