TITLES OF WOl^KS. 



1757 — Noticia de la California, y de su eotiquista temporal y espiritual hasta el 

 tiempo presente. Sacada de la bistoria mauuscripta, formada en Mexico 

 ano de 1739. por el Padre Miguel Venegas, de Ja Compauia de Jesus; y de 

 otras Noticias, y Eelacioues antiguas, y moderuas. Aiiadida de algnnos uiapas 

 particulares, y uno general de la America Septentrional, Asia Oriental, y 

 Mar del Silir intermedio, formados sobre las Memorias mas recicntes, y exactas, 

 que se publican jnntamente. Dedicada al Eey N.*^" Sefior por la Provincia 

 de Nueva-Espaiia, de la Compaiiia de Jesus. Tomo primero [ — Tonio ter- 

 cero]. — Con licencia. En Madrid: En la luiprenta de la Viuda do Manuel 

 Fernandez, y del Supremo Consejo de la Inquisicion. Alio de M.D.CCLVII. 

 [8°, 3 vols.] 



[Translated as follows :— ] 



1 Natural and Civil History of California: containing an accurate descrip- 

 tion of tbat country, its soil, mountains, barbours, lakes, rivers, and seas 5 

 its animals, vegetables, minerals, and famous fisbery for pearls. Tbe cus- 

 toms of tbe inbabitants, tbeir religion, government, and manner of living, 

 before tbeir conversion to tbe Christian religion by tbe missionary Jesu- 

 its. Togetber witb accounts of tbe several voyages and attempts made for 

 settling California, and taking actual surveys of tbat country, its gulf, and 

 coast of tbe Soutb-Sea. Illustrated witb copperplates, and an accurate 

 map of tbe country and adjacent seas. Translated from tbe original Span- 

 isb of Miguel Venegas, a Mexican Jesuit, published at Madrid 175tf. — In 

 two volumes. — Vol. I[ — II]. = London: printed for James Eiviugton and 

 James Fletcher, at tbe Oxford Theatre, in Pater-Noster-Kow. 1759. [8°, 

 vol. i, 10 1., 455 pp., 1 pi. ; vol. ii.] 



[The only references to fishes are as fallows (v. i, pp. 47-48) : — " But if the soil of Cali- 

 fornia be in general barren, the scarcity of provisions is supplied by the adjacent sea ; for 

 both in the Paciflck ocean and the Gulf of California, the multitude and variety of fishes 

 are incredible. Father Antonio de la Ascencion, speatin^ of tbe bay of San Lucas 

 [Lower California], .«ays, ' With the nets which every ship carried, they caught a great 

 quantity of fish of different kinds, and all wholesome and palatable : particularly holy- 

 buss, salmon, turbots, skates, pilchards, large oysters, thornbacks, mackerel, barbels, 

 bonetos, soals, lobsters, and pearl oysters.' And, speaking of the bay of San Francisco, 

 on the western coast, he adds: ' Here are such multitudes of fish, that with a net, which 

 the commodore had on board, more was caught every day than the ship's company could 

 make use of: and of these a great variety, as crabs, oysters, breams, mackerel, cod, bar- 

 bels, thornbacks, &c.' And in other parts he toakes mention of the infinite number of 

 sardines, which are left on the sand at the ebb, and so exquisite that those of Laredo in 

 Spain, then famous for this fish, do not exceed them. Nor are fish less plentiful along the 

 gulf [of California], where to the above mentioned species Father Picolo adds, tunnies, 

 anchovies, and others. Even in the rivulets of this peninsula are found barbels and cray- 

 fish : but the most distinguished fish of both seas are the whales ; which induced the 

 ancient cosmogrnphers to call California, Punta de Balenas, or Cape Whale : and these fish 

 being found iu multitudes along both coasts, give name to a channel in Ihe gulf, and a 

 bay in the South sea" (v. 1, pp. 47-48).] 



