TY - GEN T1 - The American travellerbeing 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 ... DA - 1743. CY - London : PB - Printed and sold by J. Fuller, PP - London : PY - 1743. N1 - "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. ID - 882169 KW - Navigation KW - Indians TI - The American travellerbeing 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 ... LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://find.gale.com/sas/infomark.do?docType=ECCO&contentSet=ECCO&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=SAS&version=1.0&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&bookId=SABCB04402600&source=library&userGroupName=usi UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://find.gale.com/sas/infomark.do?docType=ECCO&contentSet=ECCO&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=SAS&version=1.0&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&bookId=SABCB04402600&source=library&userGroupName=usi ER -