456 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1758. GuMiLLA, J. — Continued. 



sur la Seconde | Edition, par M. Eidons ci-devant | Ingenietir des Armies de 

 S. M. C. ] Tome Second. | [Ornament.] A Avignon, | Chez la Veuve de F. 

 Girard, Imprimeur. | Et se vend, | A Marseille, | Chez D. Sibi6, Imprimeur du 

 Eoi, I & Jean Mossi, Libraire. | — | M. DCC. LVIII. 3 vols. 12°. 



Poissons de I'Orenoqtie. Moyens imlustrieiix uont Ics Indiens se servent pour les prendre. 

 Vertus Medicinales des Pierres & des Os cxu'on trouve dans quelques uns. Tom. ii, chap, xxi, 

 pp. 36-58. — Manati, pp. 43-55. 



Por comment, see the Spanish edition of 1745. [278.] 



1758-77. "Gmelin, Ph. F., unci Christmaxn, G. F. Onomatologia medica completa, 

 sen Ouomatologia historiae naturalis, oder volLstiind. Lexicon das alle Bencn- 

 nungen der Kunstworter derNaturgesch. nach ihrein ganzen Umfang erkliiret 

 u. den reiclien Schatz der ganzen Natur durch deutliche u. richtige Beschrei- 

 buugen. des niitzlichen u. sonderbaren von alien Thieren, Pflanzen u. Mine- 

 ralien sowohl vor Aerzte als andere Liebhaber in sich fasst zu allgemeinem 

 Gebr. von einer Gesellschaft uaturforschender Aerzte nach den richtigsteu 

 Urkunden zusammengetragen. 7 Bdc. A-Z. (1-4 von Ph. F. Gmelin, 5-7 von 

 G.F. Christmanu). gr.so. Ulm; Frankfortu. Leipzig, 1758, '61, '66, 73, '75, '77." 



Xot .seen ; title at second hand, but source not noted. 



Cetaceen, passim. [279.] 



1759. SciLLA, AuGUSTiNO. De | Corporibus Marinis | Lapidescentibus | quae defossa 



reperiuntur | Auctore Augustino Scilla | addita dissertatione | Fabii Co- 

 lumnte | de Glossopetris | Ediiio altera emendatior. I [Vignette.] Eomse 

 MDCCLIX. I Sumptibns Venantii Moualdini Bibliopohe in via Ciu'sns. 

 I — I — I Ex Typograi^hia Joannis Zemx)el | Prope Montem Jordanum. { 

 Svperiorvm j)erraissv. 4°. 11. 4, pp. 1-82. 11. 3, pll. i-xxviii-fl aud frontis. 



This third Latin edition (see Scilla, at 1670, 1749, and 1752) seems to he textually the same 

 as the first and second, vrith modifications of title-page and accessories. The m.atter relating 

 to the Squalodont remains occurs at p. 54; the plates are identical with those of the earlier 

 editions. [280.] 



1760. Douglass, "VV. A | Summary, | Historical and Political, | of the | First Plant- 



ing, Progressive Improvements, | and Present State of the British Set- | tie- 

 ments in North America. | Containing | 



I. Some general Account of ancient | 

 and modern Colonies, the grant- | 

 ing and settling of the British | 

 Continent and West India Island | 

 Colonies, "with some transient | 

 Remarks concerning the adjoin- | 

 iug French and Spani^^h Settle- | 

 ments, and other Remarks of | 

 various Natures. 



II. The Hud?on's-Bay Comjiany's | 

 Lodges, Fur and Skin Trade. | 



III. Ne-wfoiuidland Harbours and | 

 Cod-Fishery. 

 By William Douglass, M D. | Vol.1. [-II] | — | Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, 



ne quid veri non audeat. Cicero. | — | Lond-on, | Printed for R. & J. Dodsley, 

 in Pall-mall. | MDCCLX. | 2 vols. 8°. 



The title-pages of the two volumes difi'er only in respect to the matter detailing the con- 

 tents of the volumes. There appears to have hcen an earlier [1755] edition, from which this 

 seems to he not textually different. 



A digression concerning whaling, vol.i, pp.5G-Cl. Ambergris and spermaceti are described; 

 eight different kinds of Whales are briefly described, with some account of the products of 

 each of the habits of "Whales, and of whaling. 



A digression concerning fisheries, ibid., pp. 294-304. I. Whales, pp. 296-298. This gives 

 an account of the New England Whale-fishery as it existed in 1748, with remarks on the 

 habits of the Whales pursued, and is of especial importance. [281.] 



IV. The Province of L'Acadie or | 

 Nova Scotia; ^ith the Vicissi- | 

 tudes of the Property and Ju- | 

 risdiction thereof, and its present | 

 State. 



V. The several Grants of Saga- | 

 daliock. Province of Main, Mas- | 

 sachusetts-Bay, and New- Ply- | 

 mouth, united by a new Char- | 

 ter in the j)resent Province of | 

 Massachusetts - Bay, commonly | 

 called New-England. 



