Miscellanies / by the Honourable Daines Barrington ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrington, Daines, 1727-1800.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history.

History.

North Pole.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([573] p. ) 2 port., fold. map, 5 geneal. tab. (1 fold.) chart ;

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by J. Nichols, sold by B. White [etc.], 1781.

Contents:

Tracts on the possibility of reaching the North Pole

Whether the turkey was known before the discovery of America

On the rein-deer

On the bat, or rere-mouse

On the sudden decay of several trees in St. James's park

On the periodical appearing and disappearing of certain birds at different times of the year

On the torpidity of the swallow tribe when they disappear

On the prevailing notions with regard to the cuckow

On the Linnæan system

Particulars of an agreement between the King of Spain and the Royal society, for an exchange of natural curiosities

Accounts of Mozart, Mr. Charles Wesley, Master Samuel Wesley, little Crotch, the Earl of Mornington

Of the deluge in the time of Noah

History of the Gwedir family / [Sir John Wynne]

Letter, intended for Dodsley's museum, on the English and French writers

Dialogue on the ancient tragedies, written at Oxford in 1746

Ohthere's voyage, and the geography of the ninth century illlustrated

Journal of a Spanish voyage in 1775, to explore the western coast of N. American / [Don Francisco Antonnio Maurelle]

Notes:

Various paging.

Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.

Sabin no. 3628.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG10031261-B

OCLC:

186554951