t)ICTIONNAIRE — DOBBS. 201 
Dixon [Capt. George)— continued. 
1043 — Voyage autour du raonde et principalement a la cote nord- 
ouest de I'Amerique, fait en 1785, 86, 87 et 88, a bord du King- 
George et de la Queen Charlotte, par les capitaines Portlock et 
Dixon. Traduit de I'auglois, par M. Lebas. 
Paris, Miiradan, 1789. * 
1 p. 1., 499 pp. 4°. "Appendix No. 2," 4C pp., 1 p. 1., l.'S fig., .5 maps. Not 
seen; title from Leclerc. 
1044 Der | Kapitaine Portlock's und Dixon's | Eeise urn die 
Welt I besonders nach | der Nordwestliclien Kiiste von Amerika | 
wiihreuds der Jahre 1785 bis 1788 | in den Schiflen King George 
und Queen CLarlotte, | Herausgegeben | von deni | Kapitain Georg 
Dixon. I Aus dem Englischen iibersetzt und uiit Aumerkungen 
erliiutert | von | Jobann Ileinbold Porster, | der Eechte, Medicin 
und Weltweisbeit Doktor, Professor der Naturgescbichte und Mine- 
ralogie | auf der Konigl. Preusz. Priedricbs-Universitat, Mitgleid 
der Konigl. Akademie der bohern | und scbonen Wisseusehaften 
zu Berlin. | Mit vielen Kupfern und einer Landkarte. | 
Berlin, 1790. | Bei Christian Friedrich Bosz und Sobn. | job. 
4 p. II., xxii, ;!14 pp. i°. map. Linguistics, pp. 216-218. 
See Portlock (N.) See Portlock (N.) and Dixou (G.) 
1045 Dobbs (Arthur). An | Account | of the Countries adjoining to | 
Hudson's Bay, | in the | Nortb-west Part of America: | containing | 
aDescrip ion of their Lakes and Rivers, the Nature of the | Soil and 
Climates, and their Method.s of Commerce, &c. | Shewing the Bene- 
fit to be made by settling Colonies, and | opening a Trade in these 
Parts; whereby the French will be j deprived in a great Measure of 
their Trafifick in Furs, and | the Communication between Canada 
and Mississippi be cut oif. | With | An Abstract of Captain Middle- 
ton's Journal, and Observations upon | his Behaviour during his 
Voyage, and since his Eeturu. | To which are added, | 
I. A Letter from Bartholomew de Fonte, | Vice- Admiral of Peru 
and Mexico; | giving an Account of his Voyage from ( Lima in 
Peru, to jirevent, or seize upon | any Ships that should attemi)t to 
find I a Northwest Passage to the South Sea. | 
II. An Abstract of all the Discoveries | which have been publisli'd 
of tbelslands | and Countries in and adjoining to the | Great Western 
Ocean, between Ame- | rica, India, and China, &c. pointing | out (lie 
Advantages that may be made, | if a Short Passage should be found 
thro' I nud,son's Streight to that Ocean. | 
III. The Hudson's Bay Com])any's Charter. | 
IV. The Standard of Trade in those | Parts of America; with an 
Account I of the Exports and Profits made an- | uually by the Hud- 
son's Bay Comi)any. | 
V. Vocabularies of the Languages of se- | veral Indian Nations 
adjoining to Hud | sou's Bay. ( 
