The Pp RE FAC EB 
A, 
The ‘arf Z have feen among the eh, oe rs any. Newiie 0 
fervations 4 in the cht Indies, to Purpofe, was John de Lery;: aye 
went to Bralile, which Voyage he wrote, and gives a good and plea; anit 
Account of many Things he met with. ‘The next was Andre Thever, 
who publifh'd an Account of Brafile, under the Name of France An- 
tartique; he went the Jame Voyage, I think, the Year after. de Lery, 
and writes of the fame things, in fuch a manner, that one would be apt 
‘to [ufpect he bad | feen Lery’s Papers. The next upon,this Argument, 
was Jaques, Bouton, who, wrote of ; the Tfland Mattinico, which mas 
the firft fettl dof any of ¢ the French Tflands. His Accounts.are but very 
Short; however, from him. the other French.Writers, I.think, took many 
of their Names of Natural things. J..B. du Tertre wrote of the 
Caribe-I/lands, . His Work, was pretty Large and Ufefulj..and was cone 
taind at firft in one Volume, printed in in\165.4, im 4to.and afterwards 
came out in 3 Vol. in 1667-71. There are therein, many Remarks 
and Obfervations..upon the French-Jflands, and for. Natural, Fi iff ory, 
many things are figured, which, tho, not-very accurately, yet are ekMer 
than thofe of any, before him, "Monf. Rochefort printed.a. Bool of the 
Caribes, after du Tertre's . he Jeems to me to have taken many things 
From the firft Edition of du Tertre,.and to, “agree ‘with hime in noft 
things; : The Figures he gives, 1 fuppofe were not drawn upon the Place, 
but by Memory, and are, for that Reafon,uot to be regarded, Tbis 
Book is printed m Englifh, in Folio, under the Title of the Hi ifloy 
se the. Caste seintaicleene ae ee 
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9 " doveditg te a Divifin 7 the. Nevsdilenerd World, =? ts 
Spaniards and Portuguéley/the, Ig poffe/sd chem/elves- of Bralles 
dmong/t others of that “Nation, who\went thither, was one, Jupposdste 
be. a Jeluit of Elvas, whofe. Name, is ghoftd to’ bp ‘Er..Manoel,\ aebp 
had the care, of the Sick of, the College. of, Baya, made, Obferyations: of 
that Country, and wrote them: in a. Book in the Portuguelé Languace!: 
This, Book, was.taken by Mr. Gook of Dartmouth, .tranflated ..and 
publifh'd by Purchas, p.189. Rilgraparti as. Tho this mis in it/elf 
4 very fhort Relation, .and tittle. more, thin the, Names, of things, .yet fable 
ing into the lands of the. Dutch, \ Ay, being taken\ Notice of by de, bake 
in bis America, (who bad it out of Purchas’s Colleétions ») it gave them 
Oetafion to enquire after many things therein mention d; when they had 
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