, not only of the Crim Tartars, but
likewise of the various colonists of the Crimea.
IX. AMERICA.
Those works which relate to the discovery of America, derive their
interest rather from their historical nature than from the insight they
give into the physical and moral state of this portion of the globe. In
one important particular; America differs from all the other quarters of
the world, very early travels in Asia or Africa unfold to us particulars
respecting races of people that still exist, and thus enable us to
compare their former with their present state, whereas nearly all the
original inhabitants of America have disappeared.
Referring therefore our readers to the historians of the discovery and
conquest of America, and to the Bibliotheque des Voyages, for the titles
and nature of those works which detail the voyages of Columbus,
Vespucius, &c., we shall confine ourselves chiefly to such works as
enter more fully into a description of the country and its colonized
inhabitants.
790. Journal des Observations Physiques, Mathematiques, et Botaniques,
faites par le P. Feuillee, sur les Cotes de l'Amerique Meridionale et dans
les Indes Occidentales. Paris, 1714. 2 vols. 4to.
791. Suite du Journal. Paris, 1715. 4to.--Excellent works on the subjects
indicated in the title.
792.
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