The American traveller
Subtitle: being a new historical collection carefully compiled from original memoirs in several languages, and the most authentic voyages and travels, containing a compleat account of that part of the world, now called the West Indies, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time : illustrated with the heads of the most eminent admirals, commanders, and travellers, neatly engraved : to which is prefixed an introduction, shewing the rise, progress, and improvement of navigation, the use and properties of the loadstone, and an enquiry concerning the first inhabitants of America : with an account of Admiral Vernons taking Porto Bello, Fort Chagre, and Carthagenna ...
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Fuller
Published: 1743
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Navigation; History; Indians; Origin; Discovery and exploration; English West Indian expedition (1739-1742)
Notes: "The work was published in numbers [1741] and appears to be the commencement of an extensive work, but of which no more than this volume appeared. It commences with a long introduction on the rise, progress and improvement of navigation, which is followed by book I., divided into two chapters ; one on the peopling of America, and the other, which concludes the book, containing an account of the voyages of Columbus."--Rich, Bibl. amer. nova, v. 1, p. 65.