432 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY. 



1708. Leguat, F. — Continued. 



And an Account of the most Remarkable | Things in Maurice Island, Batavia, 

 at the I Cape of Good Hope, the Island of St. He- | lena, and other Places in 

 their Way to and | from the Desart Isles. | — | Adorn'd with Maps and Fig- 

 ures. I — I London: | Printed for E: Bonwicke, W. Freeman, Tim. Goodwin, 

 I J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, S. Manship, F. Nicholson, B. Tooke, | E. Parker, 

 and E. Smith. MDCCVIII. 8°. 11. 4, pp. i-xv, 1-248, 11. 12. 



Porpoise, p. V, fig. (pi. fac. p. 7). Whale, pp. 22-24. Lamentin, pp. 67-70, pi. (fac. p. 67). 



Tht> remarks about Porpoises and Whales are of interest merely for their quaintness and 

 absurdities. The account of the Lamantin is one of the earliest descriptions of the African 

 Manatee, and is quoted by Buffon and other early naturalists. The figure of the Lamantin 

 displays a pig-like tusk in the lower jaw. It is represented as holding its young one in its 

 arms. " The Lamentins, which other Nations call Manati, that is, having Hands, abound in 

 the Sea about this Isle [Maurice], appearing often in numerous Troops ..." (p. 67). 



There is an earlier French edition of which this is a translation. [164.] 



1709. Lawson, J. A New | Voyage | to ) Carolina ; | Containing the | Exact Descrip- 



tion and Natural History | of that | Country : | Together with the Present 

 State thereof | and | A Journal | Of a | Thousand Miles Travel''^ thro' several | 

 Nations of Indians. | Giving a particular Account of their Customs, | Manners 

 &c. I By John Lawson, Gent, Surveyor | -General of North Carolina. | Lon- 

 don, I printed in the year 1709. [No publisher.] sm. 4°. 11. 3, pp. 1-258, 

 map, and 1 pi. 



The Fish in the salt, and fresh Waters of Carolina, pp. 152-163. Of Whales he says : " Of 

 these Monsters there are four sorts ; the first ... is the Sperma CoBti Whale ..." Others 

 mentioned are "the Bottle-nosed Whale," the "Shovel-nose," and "another sort, . . . though 

 not common." He also speaks of the "Grampois" and "Porpoises." The short but inter- 

 esting notices of these Cetaceans occur at pp. 153, 154. 



This is the original edition, issued as a part of Stevens's "Collection of Voyages," of which 

 it forms no. 2. The copy examined (in Harvard College Library) lacks the title-page, but is 

 otherwise complete. The plate, however, is wrongly placed at p. 115 of the preceding memoir, 

 and the map is bound at the end of the volume. The title-page appears to be lacking in many 

 copies of the present edition. That above given is transcribed from Field. 



There were later issues of the work, with different title-pages, but otherwise textuaUy 

 identical with the present. See 1714 and 1718. Lawson, John. The following is a transcript 

 of the title-page of Stevens's Collection of Voyages, in which the work originally appeared : 



A new I Collection | of | Voyages | and Travels, | Into several Parts of the 

 World, none | of them ever before Printed in | English. | Containing, | . . . 

 [here follow seven titles of works forming the collection, of which the sec- 

 ond is], I 2. A new Account of Carolina, by Mr. Lawson. | — | In Two Vol- 

 umes, Illustrated with several Maps and Cuts. | — | London, Printed for J. 

 Knapton, Andrew Bell, D. Midwinter, Will. Taylor, A. Collins, and J. Baker. 

 1711. 



The dedication, addressed to the Hon. Edmund Foley, is signed John Stevens. The date 

 on the title-page of the first memoir is 1708. 



A German translation of Lawson— Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Leipzig, sm. 8°— appeared in 

 1712, q. V. [165.] 



1710. "Martens, Fred. Nauwkeurige beschryvinge van Groenland of Spitsbergen, 



waerin de Walvischvangst, gelegentheyd van 't ys en haer wonderlijke kracht 

 en figuren en de visschen dezer contreyen, duydelijk wordt aengewezen. Oock 

 hoe de wal visschen gevangen, gekapt en gesueden worden. Alsmede de 

 Walvischvangst op rijm. Amsterdam, G. de Groot, 1710. 4°. Met gegrav. 

 platen." 



" Bene vroegere vertaling, met de reis van Martiniire door Noorwegen, Lapland, Groenland, 

 Kova-Zembla, enz. verscheen onder den titel : de Noordsche weereld met aanteekeningen van 

 S. de Vries. Te Amsterdam, bij A. Dz. Ooszaen. 1685. 4°. Met platen . . . Nog twee an- 

 dere uitgavcn verschenen te Dordrecht, bij Hendrik Walpot. (znd. jr.) [1750? en 1760?] ; en 

 nog eene te Amst., bij Abr. Cornells. 1770. 4°." 



Not seen ; title and comment from Bosgoed, op. cit., p. 242, no. 3511. [166.] 



