from the same parent stock. Pages 1 to 81, succeeding the Preliminary Discourse, are entirely occupied with vocabularies of forty Indian tongues; in which are compared some of the primitive words of several languages of Europe. The names of objects there presented, Mr. Barton declares he obtained from the Indians of the several tribes, or from interpreters. THE SAME. 8° pp. cix. +133, and Appendix 32. Philadelphia, 1798. BARTON (Benj. Smith). 90 Observations on some Parts of Natural History, to which is prefixed an Account of several Remarkable Vestiges of an Ancient Date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America. Part I. By Benjamin Smith Barton. 8° pp. 76. London (1787). BARTRAM (John). 91 Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and other matters worthy of notice, made by Mr. John Bartram, in his Travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego, and the Lake Ontario, in Canada. To which is annexed a Curious Account of the Cataracts at Niagara, by 'Mr. Peter Kalm, a Sweedish Gentleman, who travelled there, 8° Title, 1 leaf+pp. viii., and 9 to 94, and plate. London. 1751. 92 This visit of the father of the naturalist, William Bartram, to the central council fire of the Six Nations, is especially interesting, not only as having been made at so early a period, but for affording us in this work a plan and view of the Long-House, peculiar to the tribes of that confederacy. As the greater portion of the work is a copious daily journal of incidents of travel, we are indulged by many intimate associations with scenes of aboriginal life. BARTRAM (John). An Account of East Florida, with a Journal kept by John Bartram, of Philadelphia, Botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas, upon a Journey from St. Augustine up the River St. Johns. 8° London, n. d. Title 1 leaf; Dedication, 2 leaves; Introduction, pp. i. to xxii.; Account, pp. 23 to 90; Title and Dedication to Journal, pp. viii.; Journal, pp. 1 to 70. 93 BARTRAM (Wm.) Travels through North and South Carolina, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Choctaws. Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of these Regions, together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper Plates. 8° Map and seven plates, pp. xxxiv. +522. Philadelphia, 1791. 94 The Philadelphia Edition has a second full title to Book iv. page 481, reverse blank, as follows: "An Account of the Persons, Manners, Customs, and Government of the Muscogules or Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, etc., Aborigines of the Continent of North America. By William Bartram. Philadelphia, 1791," pp. 433 to 522. All other editions have only half titles with the same description of contents without date or place. It has been customary to repeat in most of the Catalogues containing Bar tram's Travels, the comment found in Coleridge's Table Talk, that it is "The latest book of Travels I know, written in the spirit of the Old Travellers." This I suppose to mean that Bartram wrote with all the enthusiasm and interest with which the fervent old Spanish friars and missionaries narrated the wonders of the new found world. Bartram, however, has much the advantage of these chroniclers, who often became mere rhapsodists, as he was a man of scientific training, with a mind too well disciplined in logical fidelity to be deluded by his own fancies. Although more especially a naturalist, he neglected nothing which would add to the common stock of human knowledge. He not only offers us pictures of Indian life, and sketches of the striking peculiarities of the tribes he visited, but he gives us tables of the names and localities of the numerous towns of the populous nations of the Creeks and Cherokees. Fifty-three villages of the first, and forty-five of the latter are enumerated and named. BARTRAM (W.) Travels, etc. Title, Size, Pagination, Plates and Index identical with the first London edition, but evidently a reprint. Dublin, 1793. BARTRAM (W.) 95 Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Choctaws, containing an Account of the Soil, and Natural Productions of those Regions; together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-plates. The Second Edition in London. 8° pp. xxiv. +520+ (vii.). Map. Frontispiece, a Creek Chief, and 7 plates. Philadelphia, printed by James & Johnson, 1791; London, reprinted for J. Johnson, 1794. BASANIERRE (M.) 96 L'Histoire Notable de la Floride situe es Indes Occidentales. Contenant les Trois Voyages faits en icelle par certains Captaines et Pilotes Francois, descrits par le Capitaine Laudonierre, qui y a commande l'espace d'un au trois moys; a laquelle a este adjouste un quatriesme voyage fait par le Capitaine Gourgues. Mise en lumire par M. Basaniere. A Paris, 1853. 16° pp. xvi. +228. 97 [History Notable of Florida. Containing the three Voyages made to it by certain Captains and Pilots described by Captain Laudonierre, who commanded in them for three months. To which is added a fourth voyage made by Captain Gourgues.] The narratives of the three voyages of Jean Ribaut, first published in 1586, contain the earliest accounts of the Indians of Florida, except such as are found in the Relacion of Cabeca de Vaca. In one respect, at least, it relieves the ferocity charged upon the savages by most writers, by its narration of the horrible massacre perpetrated on the French, by the fiend Menendez, whose name be consigned to infamy, as his soul is to perdition. BATES (Joshua). A Sermon delivered before the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians in North America, at their Anniversary, November 4, 1813. By Joshua Bates. 8° pp. 44. Boston, 1813. The Historical Notes in the Appendix fill the last fifteen pages. 98 B(AUDRY DE) L(ozieres). 99 [Travels in Louisiana and on the Continent of North America, made in the years 1794 to 1798; containing a Historic Tableau of Louisiana, with Observations on its Climate, its most valuable Productions, the Character of the Indians, etc.] Like most of the works called Voyages, written by Frenchmen, this is principally occupied with a resume of the history of the country purported to be visited, with scarcely nothing of personal observation." The character, manners, and wars of the native savages of course occupy his attention largely; but his work is principally notable for "Two Vocabularies of the Savages," the Naoudoouessis and the Chipouais, covering pp. 348 to 362. BAXTER (Rev. Joseph). Journal of several Visits to the Indians on the Kennebec, by the Rev. Joseph Baxter, of Medfield, Mass., 1717, with Notes, by the Rev. Elias Nason. Reprinted from the N. E. Hist. and Genealogical Register, for January, 1867. 8° pp. 18. Boston, 1867. 100 A short vocabulary terminates the Journal. BEAMISH (N. L.). The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the Tenth Century, with Notices of the Early Settlements of the Irish in the Western Hemisphere, by Nath' Ludlow Beamish. 8° Two maps and pp. (xvi.)+340+folding_table+(x.) 1841. London, 101 The book is principally occupied with translations of the Sagas, from Prof. Rafn's Danish work, entitled Antiquitates Americance. The author attempts to prove that as Irish ecclesiastics were constantly passing between Iceland and Ireland, that it is more than probable that America was first discovered by men of Hibernian birth. BEATTY (Charles). The Journal of a Two-Months' Tour; with a View of Promoting Religion among the Frontier Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and of Introducing Christianity among the Indians to the Westward of the Allegh-geny Mountains. To which are added Remarks on the Language and Customs of some particular Tribes among the Indians; with a brief Account of the various Attempts that have been made to civilize and convert them, from the first Settlement of New-England to this Day. By Charles Beatty, A. M. 8° pp. 110. London, 1768. 102 The tour of this zealous and intelligent observer to the Indian towns in Pennsylvania and Ohio, lying far beyond the frontiers, was made at a period of great interest in their history. The warriors of the Delaware and Shawnese had ravaged them with the tomahawk and firebrand for twenty years, and the Journal of the missionary is filled with notes of their awful massa cres. It is very full and minute in its details of interviews with Indian chiefs, and the various phases of aboriginal life which attracted his attention. BEATTY (Charles). The Journal of a Two Months' Tour; with a view of Promoting Religion among the Frontier Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and of Introducing Christianity among the Indians to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains, to which are added Remarks on the Language and Customs of some particular Tribes among the Indians; with a brief Account of the various Attempts that have been made to civilize and convert them, from the first Settlement of New England to this day. By Charles Beatty, A. M. pp. 50. Edinburgh, 1798. 103 This is the second edition, printed as the Appendix to the Edinburgh edition of Brainard's Journal of a Mission among the Indians. Some copies seem to have been printed separately. The first edition is quite difficult to procure complete. BEAUFOY (Mark). Mexican Illustrations founded upon Facts; indicative of the Present Condition of Society, Manners, Religion, and Morals among the Spanish and Native Inhabitants of Mexico; with Observations upon the Government and Resources of the Republic of Mexico, as they appeared during part of the years 1825, 1826, and 1827, interspersed with occasional remarks upon the Climate, Produce, and Antiquities of the Country, mode of working the Mines, etc. By Mark Beaufoy, late of the Coldstream Guards. 8° pp. xiv. +310+ map and six plates. London, Carpenter and Son, 1828. 104 Chap. xii., pp. 189 to 224, is entitled " Antiquities and Origin of the Mexicans.' Chapter xv., "The Indians and Mode of Working the Mines," occupies pp. 256 to 274. Seven wood-cuts, illustrative of Indian modes of labor, are printed with the text. BEECHEY (F. W. Captain). 105 Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beerhing's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey. Published by authority of the Lords' Commissioners of the Admiralty. In two parts. London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. 4° Part I. - pp. xxi. 1 to 392. Part II.—pp. viii. 393 to 742 +25 plates and maps. BEECHEY (Captain F. W.) Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions; performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. B. Beechey, R. N., in the years 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828. Published by authority of the Lords' Commissioners of the Admiralty. Large 8° pp. 493. Philadelphia, Carey and Lee, 1832. 106 Chapters xiii. and xiv., pp. 292 to 344, are devoted to a description of the Missions and Indians of California; and Chapter xix., pp. 458 to 481, contains a relation of personal adventures among the Esquimaux, with descriptions of their peculiar habits and customs. Beside the natural interest which attaches to the narrative of a visit to the Indian Missions of California, and a description of those petty yet wonderful hierarchs, just on the verge of extinction, we are afforded in Captain Beechey's book an insight into the secret history of these important institutions, which increases that interest greatly. The Mission Fathers, long isolated from the civilized world, had become as severe tyrants in their little monarchies as any of the secular class, and regularly recruited their subjects from the wild tribes of savages, by expeditions against them, in which fire and sword had more victims than the cord and the prison. BEESON (John). A Plea for the Indians; with Facts and Features of the late War in Oregon. 12° pp. 144, paper. 1858. 107 On the cover of this earnest statement of the needs and wrongs of the natives of Oregon, was printed an announcement of the immediate publication of A Further Plea for the Indians, which it is believed never appeared. BELKNAP (Jeremy). Discourse intended to commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus [etc. 5 lines], to which are added Four Dissertations connected with the various parts of the discourse, namely: I. On the circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients. II. An examination of the pretensions of Martin Behaim to a discovery of America prior to that of Columbus, with a Chronological detail of all the Discoveries made in the 15th Century. III. On the question whether the honey-bee is a native of America. IV. On the color of the native Americans, and the recent population of this Continent. By Jeremy Belknap. 8° pp. 113. Boston, 1792. BELL (W. A.) 108 New Tracks in North America. A Journal of Travel and Adventure whilst engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean during 1867-8. By William A. Bell, M. A.; with contributions by General W. J. Palmer, Major A. R. Calhoun, C. C. Perry, and Captain W. F. Colton. In two volumes. 8° Vol. I. pp. lxiv. +236 +10 colored plates and 13 wood-cuts in the text. Vol. II. pp. viii. +322 + 13 colored plates and 9 wood-cuts, with three maps. London, Chapman and Hall; New York, Scribner, Welford, and Co., 1869. 109 Part II., pp. 155 to 231 of Vol. I., is entitled, "The Native Races of New Mexico," and is something more than a recital of the Spanish narrations from Venegas to Boscana, with their much less than credible theories of the origin of the aborigines of Northwestern Mexico. He traces the migration northward of the Aztec race, driven by Spanish cruelty, with much ingenuity, by the ruins of their peculiar architecture. BELTRAMI (J. C.) La Decouverte des Sources du Mississippi et de la Riviere Sanglante. Description entier du Mississippi [etc. 6 lines]; Obser vations Critico Philosophiques, sur les Moeurs, la Religion, les |