536 Additional Notes, 



the Transit of Venus. His Voyage to California containsi 

 some interesting information concerning that country. He 

 died there, some time after his arrival, of an epidemic disease. 



M. Bossu was a Frenchman. His Travels into North- 

 America^ published at Paris, in 1777, are said to deserve but 

 little credit. 



Dr. John Mitchell, an Englishman, who resided some 

 years in Virginia, and whose name has been frequently men- 

 tioned in this work, contributed not a litde to extend our 

 knowledge of American geography. His Alap of North- 

 America, published about the year 1755, was, for some time 

 after its publication, the best extant. 



Some valuable information respecting the geography of 

 Louisiana was communicated to the public, in the course of 

 the eighteenth century, byCRozAT, Du Pratz, and Char- 

 levoix. But our acquaintance with that part of North- 

 America is extremely small and imperfect. 



The geography of Greenland has been considerably im- 

 proved by the Moravian Missionaries, who visited and resided 

 for a number of years in that inhospitable region. — See a 

 Description of Greenland, &c. by Hans Egede, who had 

 been a missionary in the country for twenty years. Trans- 

 lated from the Danish. 8vo. London. 1745. See also the 

 History of Greenland, occ. by David Crantz. Translated 

 from the German. 2 vols. 8vo. 1767. 



D'Anville. p. 352. 



Jean Baptists Bourguignon D'Anville, Geogra- 

 pher to the King of France, was born in 1697. He was one 

 of the most diligent and enthusiastic geographers that ever 

 lived. He is said to" have laboured fifteen hours a day, for 

 fifty years, to improve this favourite science. He died in 

 January, 1782. The extent and value of his labours, for 

 the illustration bodi of modern and ancient geography, are 

 generally known. 



Ancient Geography, p. 352. 



Our knowledge of Ancient Geogj^aphy has been consider- 

 ably improved by the labours of Mr. Jacob Bryant. — See 

 particularly his Ohsercaiions on Ancient History^ &c. 



