680. WILSON, (JOHN)--A genuine Narrative of the Transactions in Nova
Scotia since the Settlement in June 1749, to August 1751, in which the
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681. WILSON, (SAMUEL F.)--History of the American Revolution, with a
preliminary view of the character and principles of the Colonists, and
their controversies with Great Britain: _Baltimore_, Cushing and Sons,
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682. WINTERBOTHAM, (WILLIAM)--An Historical, geographical, commercial
and philosophical view of the American United States and of the European
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683. WINTHROP, (Governor JOHN)--Journal of the Transactions and
Occurrences in the Settlement of Massachussetts and the other New
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"_Winthrop_ fut le premier Gouverneur de Massachusetts où il arriva
en 1629. L'ouvrage ci-dessus est un Journal qu'il a tenu
très-exactement de tous les actes et de tous les événemens de la
Colonie, et qui a été fort utile à Hubbard, Mather et
Prince."--_Dict. Hist._
684.---- History of New England, from 1630 to 1649, from his Original
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685. WHITBOURNE, (CAPTAIN RICHARD)--A Discourse and Discovery of
Newfoundland, with many reasons to prove how worthy and beneficiall a
Plantation may there be made; after a far better manner than now it is.
Together with the laying open certaine enormities and abuses committed
by some that trade to that Country, and the meanes laid downe for the
reformation thereof. As also an Invitation; and likewise certaine
letters sent from that Countrey; which are printed in the latter part of
this booke: _London_, 1622, small 4to.
"This volume comprises Capt. _Whitbourne's_ tract, printed in 1620,
together with the discourse above mentioned, but with considerable
alterations, and 15 pages of letters from Newfoundland, dated in
1622. Capt. _Whitbourne_ was the father of Newfoundland, as Smith was
of Virginia and New England, and Champlain of Canada, &c. He says
that that Island was as familiar to him as his own Country, having
been employed more than forty years in making voyages to and from
it."--_Rich's Bib. Americ._
686. WOOD, (SILAS)--Sketch of the first Settlement of Long Island:
_Brooklyn_, 1829. 8vo.
687. WYNNE, (Mr.)--General History of the British Empire in America:
_London_, 1770. 2 vols. 8vo.
688. YOUNG, (GEORGE R.)--The British North American Colonies.--Letters
to the Right Hon. E. G. Stanley, Esquire, M. P., upon the existing
Treaties with France and America, as regard "Their Rights of Fishery"
upon the Coasts of Nova Scotia, Labrador and Newfoundland; the
violations of these Treaties by the subjects of both powers, and their
effect upon the commerce, equally of the Mother Country and the
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689. ZARATE, (AUGUSTIN DE)--Histoire de la Découverte et de la Conquête
du Pérou, en l'an 1525, avec les objets d'histoire naturelle qu'on y
trouve, et ce qui s'en est ensuivi, par Augustin De Zarate; traduite de
l'Espagnol: _Amsterdam_, 1706. _Ibid_, 1718. _Paris_, 1716. 2 vols.
_in-12_. _Ibid_, 1830. 2 vols. _in-18_.
"Quoique cette traduction ait quelque mérite, la difficulté que, de
son propre aveu, le traducteur a trouvée à l'exécuter, relativement
surtout à donner l'équivalent des titres et des dignités énoncés en
l'original, et à rendre même bien exactement les idées de l'Auteur
Espagnol, doit engager les amateurs à lire l'ouvrage dans l'original,
ou du moins dans la traduction dans la langue Italienne, qui a
beaucoup plus d'affinité que la nôtre avec la langue Espagnole.
"_Zarate_ ne s'est pas borné à la narration historique de la
découverte et de la Conquête du Pérou: il l'a fait précéder d'un
tableau de l'état physique du pays, des moeurs de ses habitans, tant
indigènes qu'Espagnols, et d'un exposé curieux des opinions
religieuses et du culte des Péruviens."--_Bib. des Voyages._