Biblioghaphy'. 
SB 
leum or tar : the other, in the Bay of Mayaro, in the 
months of March and June produces a detonation like 
thunder, having some flame with a thick black smoke, 
which vanishes immediately ; and in 24 hours afterwards 
a quantity of bitumen is found along the shore. The 
author quotes Alcedo (Diet, of W. I. and America) as 
being the only Spanish author who has given any details 
concerning Trinidad. 
Moeton (J. ) 
On the Pitch Lake of Trinidad. Proceedings of the 
Hovascotian Institute of Natural Science, vol. i — part iv, 
p. 66 (1866). 
Maneoss ( ) 
On the Pitch Lake of Trinidad. American Journal of 
Science and Arts — September 1855. 
Tayloe (E. Cavendish, M.A., F.L.S.) 
Live months in the Westindies. Part I, Trinidad and 
Venezuela. Ibis, vol. vi, No. 21, January 1864, pp. 73-97. 
Contains a list of the birds of Trinidad collected or 
observed by the author. 
Thomas (John Jacob) The Theory and ^Practice of Creole 
Grammar — 8vo. Portofepain 1869. pp. 135. 
A very interesting and complete account of the patois 
French spoken in Trinidad. At the end are some idiomatic 
expressions, proverbs and translations, and the work is 
not only a curious but a valuable addition to our literature. 
[ Tronchin (Louis Bernard) ] Les Mysteres de File aux 
Colibris— -par un Creole — Premiere Partie — ** L’oncle 
et le neveu”— Portofspain 1865. 8vo. pp. 31. The 
same— Deuxieme partie — ‘ 5 Lea Negrqs Marrons’’— 
Poitofspain, 1866— 8vo, pp. 44. 
