Miscellanies /
Barrington, Daines,1727-1800.
London, : Printed by J. Nichols. Sold by B. White and J. Nichols ...,
1781..
Includes "Journal of a voyage in 1775. To explore the coast of America ... " by Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle, and "The history of the Gwedir family" by Sir John Wynne.
Pages 541-546 omitted from pagination, but text and register are continuous.
A preface, paginated *471-*477, signed *Ooo4-7, has been inserted between pp. 470-471.
A divisional t.p. intitled: "The history of the Gwedir family ... " is inserted between pp. 342 and [343], and signed *Xx3.
Includes index.
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.--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 illustrated.--Journal of a Spanish voyage in 1775.
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