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An essay on the natural history of Guiana, in South America. Containing a description of many curious productions in the animal and vegetable systems of that country. Together with an account of the religion, manners, and customs of several tribes of its Indian inhabitants. Interspersed with a variety of literary and medical observations. In several letters from a gentleman [Edward Bancroft] of the Medical Faculty, during his residence in that country.
London, T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt: iv + 402.
–Allen 306. Dutch transl., Utrecht, 1782. A brief but very accurate account - the original one - of the Guiana manatee (186-187).
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