430 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1703-05. Dampier, W. — Continued. 



the I Variations observ'd in this Voyage. Oc- [ currences near the Cape of 

 Good Hope. | The Course to New Holland. Shark's Bay. | The Isles and 

 Coast, &c. of New Holland. | Their Inhabitants, Manners, Customs, Trade, 

 &c. I Their Harbours, Soil, Beasts, Birds, Fish, &c. | Trees, Plants, Fruits, 

 &c. I Illustrated with several Maps and Draughts; also | divers Birds, Fishes, 

 and Plants, not found in | this part of the World, Curiously Ingraven on | 

 Copper-Plates. | — | Vol. III. | — | By Captain William Dampier. | — | Lon- 

 don: I Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's | Church-yard. 

 1703. 8°. 11. 12 (title, 1 1. ; dedication, 2 11.; preface, 6 11.; contents, 3 11.), 

 pp. 1-162 ; index, ii 11. ; publisher's cat. of books, 2| 11., 4 topographical pU., 

 2 pll. of birds, 5 pll. plants, 3 pll. fishes. 



Captain Dampier's "Voyages" tlins form three volumes, the second of which also consists of 

 three parts, each separately paged, and with a general index to ttie first two volumes. In the 

 set I have here collated, vols, ii and iii are bound together. Vol. i belongs to the "fifth edi- 

 tion," vol. ii to the "third," and vol. iii to the first; the date of vols, i and iii is 1703; that of 

 vol. ii, 1705. The date of the first edition of vol. i is said to be .1 have references to a 

 1702 ed. which correspond exactly with the 1703 ed. here collated. 



As is well known, Dampier was an acute natural-history observer as well as a bold navi- 

 gator and adventurer, and his observations on the Beasts, Birds, and Fishes he met with 

 during his long voyages are among the best and most trustworthy of his time. His work is 

 of importance in the present connection for his very full account of the Manatee, which he 

 met with at numerous and widely distant points. There are also notices of Whales. 



Manatee, or Sea-cow, vol. i, pp. 33-37 — description of the animal, its habits, distribution, 

 products, and the manner of its capture by the natives of Blewfield (or Bluefield) River ; 

 p. 41, in Darien River ; p. 321, its occurrence at Mindenao, in the East Indies; p. 381, do.; 

 pp. 463, 469, its occurrence in New Holland; p. 547, the Manatee of Santa Hellena a Sea-Lyon 

 [i. e., a Seal]. Vol. 2, pt. ii, pp. 73, 109, 128, in Campeachy, and near Vera Cruz. 



Whales and Whale-fishery of Bahia, Brazil, vol. iii, pp. 57, 58; Sea-birds feasting on a dead 

 Whale, p. 95; Whales on the coast of New Holland, p. 131; Porpusses, p. 162, pi. ii, fig. 2. 



Dampier's references to the "Manatee, or Sea-cow," as occurring in the East Indies and 

 New Holland, relate, of course, to the Dugong. His statement that the Manatees of the West 

 Indies are smaller than those of the American Isthmus and Guiana was seized upon by Bufibn 

 as indicating a diversity of species. [151.] 



1703. La Hontan, — , Baron de. New | Voyages | to North-America. | Containing | 



. . . [= 20 lines]. | — | Illustrated with Twenty Three Mapps and Cutts. | — | 

 Written in French | By the Baron Lahontan, Lord Lievtenant | of the French 

 Colony at Placentia in New- | foundland, now in England. | — | Done into 

 English. I — I In Two Volumes. | A great part of which never Printed in the 

 Original. | — | Loudon: Printed for H. Bonwicke in St. Paul's Church-yard;' 

 I T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, B. Tooke, in Fleetstreet ; and S. Manship | in Corn- 

 hill, 1703. 2 vols. sm. 8°. Vol. i, 11. 12. pp. 1-280, 12 maps and cuts. 



Vol. i, pp. 243-247, gives a list of the "Fish of the River St. Laurence," and "A Description 

 of the Fish that are not mention'd in the Letters." The Cetaceans enumerated and described 

 are the "Balenot," or "little Whale," the " Soufileur," and the "White Porpoise." The last 

 is evidently theSeluga catodon, of which he says, "They are a ghastly sort of Animals, and 

 are frequently taken before Quebec" (p. 244). 



The original (French) edition, which I have not seen, is said to have been published in 1703 

 (La Haye, 2 vols, 12°). In the second French edition (La Haye, 1705) the matter relating to 

 Cetaceans occurs in vol. ii, pp. 53, 55, 5G. In the French editions of 1709 and 1715 (same pub- 

 lisher), it occurs at pp. 51, 53, 54, of the same volume. [152.] 



1704. Leeuwenhoek, A. van. A Letter from Mr. Antony van Leemvenhoek, F. R. S., 



concerning the flesh of Whales, Crystaline humour of the Eye of Whales, 

 Fish, and other Creatures, and of the use of the Eye-lids. <^Philos. Trans. 

 Lond., xxiv, no. 293 [1704], pp. 1723-1730, figg. 1-6. 



The figures are of the crystalline lens of the eye of a Whale. [153.] 



1704. MONCK, John. An | Account | of a most Dangerous | Voyage | Perform'd by 



the Famous | Capt. John Monck, | In the years 1619, and 1620. | By the special 



Command of Christian IV. | King of Denmark, Norway, &c. to Hudson's 



