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<dl><dd>"An historical description of the province and country of West-New-Jersey in America. A short view of their laws, customs and religion: as also the temperament of the air and climate; the fatness of the soil, with the vast produce of rice, &amp;c. The improvement of their lands (as in England) to pasture, meadows, &amp;c. Their making great quantities of pitch and tar, as also turpentine, which proceeds from the pine trees, with rozen as clear as gum-arabick, with particular remarks upon their towns, fairs, and markets; with the great plenty of oil and whale-bone made from the great number of whales they yearly take: as also many other profitable and new improvements. Never made till now.." has separate title page but continuous pagination and signatures, and has imprint: London: printed in the year 1698</dd>
<dd>Includes several specimens of indigenous language material: p. 47, 2nd count, gives a six line farewell speech in the Delaware language followed by its English language translation; p. 8-11, 4th count, includes a dialogue in parallel columns of Delaware and English languages followed by a list of "the names of some of the Indians" on p. 13, 4th count</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A (A1 verso blank) B-D E (E4 verso blank) F-H (F1, F6 versos, H8 blank)</dd>
<dd>"Pennsylvania and West Jersey", folded map, is bound to face p. 1, 2nd count</dd>
<dd>Vail, R.W.G. Old frontier</dd>
<dd>Baer, E. Seventeenth century Maryland</dd>
<dd>Smith, J. Friends' books</dd>
<dd>Pilling, J.C. Algonquian languages</dd>
<dd>Pilling, J.C. Algonquian languages</dd>
<dd>Church, E.D. Discovery</dd>
<dd>Wing (CD-ROM, 1996)</dd>
<dd>JCB Lib. cat., 1675-1700</dd>
<dd>Alden, J.E. European Americana</dd>
<dd>Alden, J.E. European Americana</dd>
<dd>ESTC</dd>
<dd>Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: H.T.[i.e. Henri Ternaux-Compans]: gold-tooled stamp on front and rear boards</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch; Germans; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Delaware Indians; Delaware Indians; Delaware language; Indian linguistics; Imprint 1698</div>
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<dl><dd>Thomas, Gabriel</dd>
<dd>Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864. fmo RIBRL</dd></dl></div>
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