92' NORTH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
Brasseur de Bourbourg [Abbe Charles EtieDue) — continued. 
401 Codex Chimalpopoca. Manuscrit en laugue nahuatl de 
I'ancienne collection de Boturini sous le litre de Historia de los 
reynos de Colhuacan y Mexico. » 
" lu press. M. Brasseur de Bourboiirg is making a duplicate translation of the 
first part of this work, which will soon appear. Under the tictious of mytholo<>-ic 
story and under those of Quetzalcoatl and of the kings of Tollan, is veiled 
the history of that ancient cataclysm occasioned by the termination of the glacial 
epoch in America; it cnnfini'S itself chiefly to the glaciers of the Amazon, 
described with minutest details, the volcauic eruptions which tixed the present 
continent, the age and epoch of sandstone which covers so great a part of these 
regions, and that of all the deposits which cover the Amazonian valleys. The 
whole of these revelations given by the Mexican geologists through ten thousand 
years agree in the closest possible maimer even to the present time with the work 
of M. Agassiz. It explains fully what that savant so long sought, the origin and 
extent of the ancient Amazonian barriers, and reveals even to the smallest par- 
ticulars those mysterious deposits of gold, silver, sapphire, emerald, and jade of 
whose discovery the Spaniards, in their search forthe Eldorado, vainly dreamed."— 
Maisonneuve Book Cat. 
See Galicia (F. C), Mendoza (G.), and Solis (F. S.) 
462 Bravo (Fr. Juan). Arte de la Lengua de Miclioacan. — Confeso- 
nario. — Preparacion para bien rnorir. — Explicacion del Saliuo: 
Miserere. — Explicacion del Salmo: Beati qui audiunt. — Explicacion 
de las Lttanias. * 
Three works in the Tarascan Language, printed in Mexico by Pedro Balli, in 
1574. 8". — Beristain. 
463 [Breboeuf ( fi. P. Jean).] Doctriue | Chrestienne, dv R. P. Ledesme 
de la I Conipaguie de lesvs. | Traduite en Langage Canadois, pour 
la Con- I uersion des habitans du dit pays. | Par vn pere de la meuie 
Compagnie. | 
A lloven, j Chez Richard I'Allemant, | pres le College. | 1630. | 
Pp. 1-2G. 10°. JOB. 
Ludewig erroneously states that Breboeuf's translation was printed at Rouen, 
ICIO. 8°. 
464 Doctrine Chrestienne, dv R. P. Ledesme de la Compagnie de 
lesvs. Traduicte en Langage Canadois, autre que celuy des Mon- 
tagnars, pour la conuercion des habitans du dit pays. Par le R. P. 
Brebceuf de la mcsme Oomijagnie. 
In Cliamplain (S. dp). Les Voyages de la Novvelle France, pp. 1-15. Paris, 
Claude Collet, 1632. 4°. 
465 Doctriue Chrestienne, Dv R. P. Ledesme do la Compagnie 
de lesvs. Traduicte en Langage Canadois, autre que celuy des 
Montagnars, pour la conuersion des habitans du dit pays. Par le 
R. P. Brebceuf de la meme Compagnie. 
In Champlaiu (S. de). Les Voyages de la Novvelle France, pp. 1-1.5. Paris, 
Louis Sevestre, 1639. 4°. 
Ludewig, quoting from Vater, states that the edition— Paris, Collet, 1627, 8°— 
contains the linguistic pieces by Brebceuf and Mass6. This is not coiTect. 
