422 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1675. JOSSELYN, J. Continued. 



Orig. ed. 1664 ; the present is textually the same, except the title-page. Reprinted in the 

 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., 3d ser., iii, 1833, pp. 211-296, "and was again reprinted in 1865 by Wil- 

 liam Veazie, following the Harvard College copy" of the 1675 ed., from which copy the above 

 collation is taken. 



The Ambergreese- Whale, pp. 104, 105. "Anno Dom. 1668 the 17 of July there was one of 

 them thrown up on the shore between Winter-harbour and Cape-porpus [near Boston], about 

 eight mile from the place where I lived, that was five and fifty foot long" (p. 104). Nothing 

 else of importance relating to Cetacea. [106.] 



1675. MARTENS, F. Friderich Martens | vom Hamburg | Spitzbergische oder Groen- 



landische | Reise-Beschreibung | gethanim Jahr 1671. | Aus eigner Erfahrungo 

 beschrieben, die dazu erforderte | Figurcn nach dem Leben sclbst abgerissen, 

 (so hierbey in | Kupfer zu sehen) und jetzo durch den | Druck mitgctheilet. | 

 [Vignette.] Hamburg, | Auff Gottfried Schultzeus Kosten gedruckt, | Im 

 Jahr 1675. sm. 4. 11. 4, pp. 1-132, 11. 2, pll. A-Q = 16. 



Cetacea, pp. 92-127. Meerschwein oder Tunin, pp. 92, 93. Butskopf, pp. 93, 94. Weisfische 

 [Beluga catodon], p. 94. Vom Einliorn [= Monodon monoceros], pp. 94, 95. Sagenfisch ins ge- 

 mein genannt Schwerdtfisch [= Orca], pp. 95, 96. Vom Wallfisch, pp. 98-109, pll. A and Q (figs. 

 a, 6, Balcena mysticetus). Vom Wallfischfang, pp. 110-118. Wie sie mit den todten Walfisch 

 umbgehen, pp. 118-123. Von des Fetts, oder Trahns Brennerey, pp. 123-125. Von Finfisch 

 [=Balcenoptera sp.J, pp. 125-127, pi. Q, fig. c. 



Martens's work in relation to Cetology is one of great interest and importance, not only 

 from its early date, but for the good account it gives of the Greenland Right Whale and the 

 Whale -fishery, and also especially for its very good figures of the Greenland Whale and of the 

 Finfish. They may be fairly considered as the first passable figures of these species, and those 

 of the first were the standard figures down to the time of Scoresby (1820), and as such were 

 many times copied. His references to the other northern Cetacea are intelligent, and of great 

 historic interest. The only separate translations of the work I have seen cited are an Italian 

 (Venice, 1680, 12) and a Dutch (Amsterdam, 1710, 4, q. v.), but various versions, generally 

 more or less abridged, have appeared in collections of voyages, etc., as Vries's (Amsterdam, 

 1685), Narborough's (London, 1694), Harris's (London, 1705), Bernard's (French, Amsterdam, 

 1731), Adelung's (German, Halle, 1768), etc. Also, White's (1855, Hakluyt Soc.), q. v. [107.] 



1676. DEBES, L. J. Fseroce, & Freroa Reserata: | That is | A Description | of the | 



Islands & Inhabitants | of | Foeroe : | Being | Seventeen Islands subject to the 

 | King of Denmark, lying under 62 | deg. 10 min. of North Latitude. | Wherein 

 several Secrets of Nature | are brought to Light, and someAnti- | quities hith- 

 erto kept in darkness | discovered. | Written in Danish by Lucas Jacobaon | 

 Debes, M. A. and Provost of the | Churches there. | | Englished By J[ohn] 

 S[terpiu]. Doctor of Physick. | | Illustrated with Maps. | | Printed 

 by F. L. for William lies, at the Flow- | er-de-Luce in Little Brittain, over 

 against | St. Bartholomews Gate. 1676. 12. 11. 12, pp. 1-408. [The copy 

 examined (Harv. Coll. Libr.) lacks the maps.] 



Chap. iii. Of the Waters Fertility, pp. 163-189. Grind -Whales [= Olobiocephalus mclas], 

 pp. 171-179. Doglings [Hyperordon sp.], pp. 179-184. Roar and Witch -Whale, pp. 184-188. 



The chapter " Of the Waters Fertility " is full of quaint and curious information about the 

 myths and superstitions prevalent among the Foero islanders in the 17th century respecting 

 the marine mammalia found about these islands, as well as replete with interesting matter 

 relating to the natural history of the Seals and Cetaceans. The account of the Grind- Whale 

 (Globiocephalus melas) is especially important. 



"The Fishes wherewith this people maintain themselves are of three sorts; first, small 

 Fishes, secondly Seals, and in the third place Whales" (p. 164). 



The date of the original Danish edition I am unable to give. A German version (8, Ko- 

 penhagen und Leipzig) was published in 1757, q. v. [108.] 



137G. " SACHS, PAUL LUDW. Monocerologia seu do genuinis Unicornibus. Dissert. 

 Kaceburgi, 1676. 8. pp. 182, pi. 1." 



Not seen; title from Cams and Engelmann. [109.] 



1677. ANOX. " Strange news from the deep, being a full account of a large pro- 



digious whale lately taken in the river Wioner, within six miles from ? Col- 

 chester, (z. pi.) 1677. 4." 



Not seen; title from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 171 S no. 2695. [110.] 



