@article{882169,
      recid = {882169},
      title = {The American traveller 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 ... [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Printed and sold by J. Fuller,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 p.l., xiii, 14-398 p.) :},
      year = {1743},
      note = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/882169},
}