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in the Pacific Ocean, and the English settlements of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island. By John Turnbull. In three volumes. Small 8vo. 3 vols. 13s. 6d.

Phillips,

A second edition, in quarto, was published in 1813.

21 E. RUDGE. Plantarum Guiana variorum icones et descriptiones, hactenus ineditæ. Vol. I. (all published.)

Folio. 50 plates.

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London.

22. VOYAGE dans les deux Louisianes et chez les nations sauvages du Missouri, par les Etats Unis, l'Ohio et les autres provinces qui le bordent, en 1801, 1802, et 1803, avec un apperçu des moeurs, des usages, du caractère et des costumes religieuses et civiles des peuples de ces differentes contrées. Par M. Perrin du Lac.

8vo. pp. 479. Maps. 5f.

Paris.

23 MEMOIRE sur la naturalization des Arbres Forestiers de l'Amerique septentrionale. Par F. A. Michaux. Paris.

8vo.

24 CAMPAGNES des Francais à Saint Domingue et refutation des reproches fait au Capitaine Generale Rochambeau. Par Ph. Albert Delattre, proprietaire, ex-liquidateur des depenses de la guerre à Saint Domingue.

8vo. pp. 285. 5f.

Paris.

25 RECLAMATIONS de M. Bury Fédon contre un ouvrage entitulé: Campagne des Français a St. Dominigue et refutation des reproches faits au Capitaine General Rochambeau.

8vo. pp. 32.

Paris.

26 ESSAI sur la Geographie des Plantes, accompagné d'un tableau physique des Regions equinoxiales. Par Al. de Humboldt et A. Bompland.

Royal 4to. pp. 155. Large plate.

Some copies are dated 1807.

Paris.

27 VOYAGE à Cayenne, dans les deux Ameriques et chez les Anthropophages, contenant la liste generale des déportés, des notes particuliéres sur chacun d'eux; leur vie leur mort ou leur rctour; des notions particuliéres sur Collot et Billaud, sur les déportés de nivôse aux iles Séchelles; le voyage de l'auteur chez

les mangeurs d'hommes, les dangers qu'il y court; son retour 1805.
par les Etats Unis; de la religion, des moeurs et de la culture de
l'Amerique septentrionale, des Quakers, &c. Par Louis Ange
Pitou, dit le chanteur, déporté à Cayenne en 1798, pendant trois
Ans, et rendu à la liberté par S. M. l'Empereur.

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Paris.

A work of very little interest, written with great negligence, (2nd edition,
1807,) J. G. L. F.

28 RECUEIL d'Observations de Zoologie et d'Anatomie comparée
faites dans l'Ocean Atlantique, dans l'interieur du nouveau conti-
nent et dans la mer du sud, pendant les années 1799-1803.
Par A. L. de Humboldt et a Bompland.
Schoell, Paris.

4to. pp. 412.

See 1811.

29 APUNTAMIENTOS para la historia natural de los Paxaros del Paraguay y Rio de Plata, escritos por Don Felix de Azara.

4to. 3 vols.

See 1802. No. 31.

Ibarra, Madrid.

30 MEMORIA Sobre las virtudes y usos de la planta llamada en èl
Peru, Bejuco de la Estrella. Por Don Hipolito Ruiz.
4to. pp. 52. Plate.

The Bejuco de la Estrella is the Aristolochia fragrantissima of Botanists.

31 MEMORIA de las virtudes y usos de la Raiz de la planta llamada Yallhoy en el Peru. Por Don Hip° Ruiz.

4to. pp. 36. Plate.

The Monninia polystachia of the Fl. Peruv. akin to the Polygaleæ.

Madrid.

32 MEMORIA Sobre la legitima Calaguala, y otras dos Raizes que con el mismo nombre nos vienen dela America meridional. Por Don Hip' Ruiz.

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33 KALENDARIO y Guia de Forasteros de Guatemala y sus provin.. cias para el año de 1805. Guatemala.

12mo.

34 NEUE REISE NACH CAYENNE; a new voyage to Cayenne, or authentic notices of French Guiana, collected during three voyages

1805.

in the country, and taken from the journal of a French citizen; with notes by G. New edition. (In German.)

8vo. pp. 212.

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Leipsic.

This voyage was first published in 1795. The author's last voyage was in 1788.

MDCCCVI.

1 AN ACCOUNT of Prince Edward's Island, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, North America. Containing its geography, a description of its different divisions, soil, climate, seasons, natural productions, cultivation, discovery, conquest, progress, and present state of the settlement, government, constitution, laws, and religion. By John Stewart, esq. Winchester,

8vo. pp. 320. 8s.

2 THE TRAVELS and providential experience of Lorenzo Dow; written by himself. With an appendix, containing credentials, &c. Second edition.

12mo. 2 vols. in 1.

Liverpool.

New York.

3 TRAVELS in Louisiana and the Floridas, in 1802, translated from
the French, with Notes. By John Davis.
12mo.

4 MESSAGE from the President of the United States, communicating
discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River, and
Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Dr. Sibly, and Mr.
Dunbar; with a statistical account of the countries adjacent,
read in congress, February 19, 1806.
New York.

8vo. pp. 128.

5 A BRIEF ACCOUNT of the proceedings of the committee appointed in the year 1795, by the yearly meeting of friends of Pensylvania, New Jersey, &c., for promoting the improvement and gradual civilization of the Indian Natives.

8vo. pp. 48.

First printed in Philadelphia.

Phillips,

6. A BRIEF ACCOUNT of the proceedings of the committee appointed by the yearly meeting of friends, held in Baltimore, for promoting the improvement and civilization of the Indian natives.

8vo.

PP.

47.

Phillips,

First printed in Baltimore.

7 AN EXAMINATION of the alleged expediency of the American 1806. Intercourse Bill; respectfully inscribed to R. Curling, esq., and other gentlemen who compose the committee of ship owners. 8vo. 1s.

Asperne,

This writer is astonished that any British bosom should entertain a wish
below that of chastising the insolence and avenging the calumnies they
so long have suffered. He inveighs bitterly against the violent spirit
cherished in America towards England, but he deems it by no means im-
proper in the subjects of H. M. to foster the highest possible resentment
against the Americans.-M. R.

8 THE PRESENT CLAIMS and complaints of America briefly and
fairly considered.
Hatchard,

8vo. pp. 56. 28.

This pamphlet consists of two letters from a gentleman in Nova Scotia, on
the question whether a neutral be at liberty to prosecute with a belligerent
power, in time of war, a commerce which was interdicted to it in the
period of peace.

9 AN EXAMINATION of the British doctrine, which subjects to capture
a neutral trade not open in time of peace. Johnson,
8vo. pp. 200. 5s.

First printed in Philadelphia.

New York.

10 AN ANSWER to "War in Disguise;" or remarks upon the new
doctrine of England concerning neutral trade.
8vo. pp. 76.

Written by Gouverneur Morris in reply to No. 11 of 1805. Reprinted in
London.

11 MEMOIRS Concerning the commercial relations of the United
States with England. By Citizen Talleyrand. Read at the
National Institute, the 15th germinal, in the year V. To which
is added an essay on the advantages to be derived from new
colonies in the existing circumstances, by the same author.
8vo. pp. 87. 2s. 6d.
Longman.

"In these memoirs the dread diplomatist re-assumes his original character;
he is the enlightened Bishop of Autun, the philantropist of the constituent
assembly, and not the crafty guileful minister of an odious directory, or
of an insatiably ambitious consul and cmperor."—M. R.

12 NOTES on the United States of America.

8vo. pp. 48.

Philadelphia.

By Gouverneur Morris. First written in a letter to a friend, and afterwards
printed for circulation.

1806. 13 ACTs passed at the first session of the first legislature of the territory of Orleans. Fr. and Eng. New Orleans.

8vo. pp. 221.

14 A COMPILATION in which is comprised the constitution of the United States, the treaty by which Louisiana was ceded to the United States: the laws and ordinances of Congress for the government of the territory of Orleans, together with two ordinances of the governor-general and intendent of Louisiana. French and English.

8vo. pp. 159.

New Orleans.

15 EXCURSIONS in North America, described in letters from a gentleman and his young companion to their friends in England. By Priscilla Wakefield.

12mo. pp. 420. 5s.

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Darton,

Miss Wakefield having collected together some of the best travels in America, formed from them this imaginary excursion, for the amusement and instruction of young persons.

16 NOTES on the West Indies; written during the expedition under the command of the late Sir Ralph Abercromby, including observations on the island of Barbadoes, and the settlements captured by the British troops, upon the coast of Guiana; likewise remarks relating to the creoles and slaves of the western colonies and the Indians of South America; with occasional hints regarding the seasoning or yellow fever of hot climates. By George Pinckard, M.D., &c. Longman,

8vo. 3 vols. £1. 10s.

A second edition was printed in 1816, in two volumes. "An extremely
valuable addition to our information upon Colonial affairs. It abounds in
facts, the result of actual observation, relative to all the interesting subjects
enumerated in the title page."-Ed. Rev. ix. p. 304.

17 TRAVELS from Buenos Ayres, by Potosi to Lima. With notes
by the translator, containing topographical descriptions of the
Spanish possessions in South America. Drawn from the last and
best authorities. By A. Z. Helms, formerly director of the mines
near Cracow, in Poland, and late director of the mines, &c. in Peru.
12mo. pp. 251. 2 Maps. 6s.
Phillips,

This work contains an abridgement of Helms travels, first published in Ger-
man, in 1798 (No. 30), which occupies 108 pages, and an appendix of
150 pages, consisting of extracts from Alcedo, Ulloa, &c.

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