An account of the European settlements in America
Subtitle: in six parts.
Contributors: Burke, William, 1730-1798.
Edition: The second edition, with improvements.
Publisher: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ...
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: America -- Discovery and exploration -- Portuguese.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
Notes: "In two volumes, Vol. I."

Part of a CIHM set.  For individual microfiches in this set see CIHM microfiche nos. 28243-28245.

Attributed to Edmund Burke--National union catalog pre-1956 imprints.  Also attributed to William Burke--Dictionary of national biography.

"Each part contains an accurate description of the settlements in it, their extent, climate, productions, trade, genius and disposition of their inhabitants : the interests of the several powers of Europe with respect to those settlements, and their political and commercial views with regard to each other."

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Dana Porter Arts Library, University of Waterloo. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1982.

324 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Table of contents: title: I. A short history of the discovery; title: II. The manners and customs of the original inhabitants; title: III. Of the Spanish settlements; title: IV. Of the Portuguese.