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lYST — Noticia de la California, y de su conquista temporal y espiritual hasta el 

 tiempo preseate. Sacada de la historia manuscripta, formada en Mexico 

 auo de 1739. por el Padre Miguel Venegas, do la CouipaDia de Jesus ; y de 

 otras Noticias, y Relacioues antiguas, y modornas. Auadida de alguuosinapas 

 particulares, y uuo geueral de la America Septentrional, Asia Oriental, y 

 Mar del Sur interniedio, formados sobre las M' morias mas recieutcs, y exactas, 

 que so publican juutamente. Dedicada al Rey N.*^" Senor por la Provincia 

 de Nueva-Espana, de la Compaiiia de Jesus. Tomo primero [ — Touio ter- 

 cero]. — Con licencia. En Madrid : En la Imprenta de la Vinda de Manuel 

 Fernandez, y del Supremo Conaejo de la Inquisicion. Auo do M.D.CCLVII. 

 [8°, 3 vols.] 



[Trauslated as follows:— J 



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

 tion of that country, its soil, mountains, harbours, lakes, rivers, and seas 5 

 its animals, vegetables, minerals, and famous fishery for pearls. The cus- 

 toms of the inhabitants, their religion, government, acd manner of living, 

 before their conversion to the Christian religion by the missionary Jesu- 

 its. Together with accounts of the several voyages and attempts made for 

 settling California, aud taking actual surveys of that country, its gulf, aud 

 coast of the South-Sea. Illustrated with copperplates, and an accurate 

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

 ish of Miguel Venegas, a Mexican Jesuit, published at Madrid 175d. — In 

 two voluuu-s. — Vol. I[ — II]. = London : printed for James Rivington and 

 James Fletcher, at the Oxford Theatre, in Pater-Noster-Row. 1759. [8°, 

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



[Tbe only references to fishes are aa f jllows (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 tlie Pacificl; ocean and the Gulf of California, the niultitndo and variety of fishes 

 are incredible. Father Antonio de la Asccncion, speakinj; of tho bay of San Lucas 

 [Lower California], says, ' With the nets which every shii) 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, thorubacks, mackerel, barbels, 

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

 on the western coast, ho adds: ' Hero arc such multitudes of fish, that with a net, which 

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

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

 bels, thonihacks, (fcc' And in other parts he makes mention of the infinite number of 

 sardines, which are left on the sand at tho 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 tho 

 gulf [of California], where to tho above mentioned species Father I'icolo adds, tunnies, 

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

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

 ancient cosmographersto call California, Punta de Balenas, or Capo Whale: and these fish 

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

 bay in tho South sea" (v. i, pp. 47-48).] 



