Miscellanies
By: by the Honourable Daines Barrington ...
Publisher: Printed by J. Nichols, sold by B. White [etc.]
Published: 1781
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 573
Subjects: Natural history.; History.; North Pole.
Notes: Various paging.
Title vignette.
--Ohthere's voyage, and the geography of the ninth century illustrated.--Journal of a Spanish voyage in 1775, to explore the western coast of N. America [by Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle]
Table of contents: title: Tracts on the possibility of reaching the North pole.; title: Whether the turkey was known before the discovery of America.; title: On the rein-deer.; title: On the bat, or rere-mouse.; title: On the sudden decay of several trees in St. James's park.; title: On the periodical appearing and disappearing of certain birds at different times of the year.; title: On the torpidity of the swallow tribe when they disappear.; title: On the prevailing notions with regard to the cuckow.; title: On the Linnæan system.; title: Particulars of an agreement between the King of Spain and the Royal society, for an exchange of natural curiosities.; title: Accounts of Mozart, Mr. Charles Wesley, Master Samuel Wesley, little Crotch, the Earl of Mornington.; title: Of the deluge in the time of Noah.; title: History of the Gwedir family [by Sir John Wynne]; title: Letter, intended for Dodsley's museum, on the English and French writers.; title: Dialogue on the ancient tragedies, written at Oxford in 1746.