The natural history of North-Carolina
Subtitle: With an account of the trade, manners, and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c
By: By John Brickell, M.D.
Contributors: Lawson, John, 1674-1711
Publisher: Printed by James Carson, in Coghill's Court, Dame-street, opposite to the Castle-Market. For the author
Published: 1737
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng; iro; sio
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Glossaries, vocabularies; Woccon language; Description and travel; Indians of North America; Natural history; Tuscarora language; Indian linguistics
Notes: An almost verbal transcript of John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina, which was first printed in serialized form under title "A new voyage to Carolina" as part of "A new collection of voyages and travels", compiled by John Stevens from 1708-1710, and printed in cumulation in London, 1711 and issued separately in London, 1709. Cf. North American review, v. 23, p. 288-289.

List of subscribers: p. vii-xv.

"Some few words of the Indian language", p. 407, contains numbers, and general vocabulary and phrases in the English, Tuskeruro [i.e. Tuscarora, a language in the Iroquois family spoken by a tribe in New York State and Ontario], Pamticoe [a language spoken by the Pamlico Indians, who lived in Virginia], and Woccon languages [as spoken by a Siouan tribe near Piedmont, North Carolina]. This list is a highly truncated form of the glossary in John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina.

Signatures: a⁶ b⁴ A-3E⁴

Engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Hanson 5037.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 928.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 737/42.

Brown, J.C.  Cat., 1493-1800, III: 560.

ESTC T143839.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full speckled calf.