Mexico - Description and travel
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The voyages and adventures of Miles Philips , a West-Country sailor. Containing A Relation of his various Fortune both by Sea and Land; the inhuman Usage he met with from the Spaniards at Mexico, and the Salvage Indians of Canada and other barbarous Nations; and the Sufferings he and his Companions underwent by their Confinement and Sentence in the Spanish Inquisition. Together with A Natural Description of the Countries he visited, and particular Observations on the Religion, Customs and Manners of their respective Inhabitants. written by himself in the plain stile of an English sailor.
Philips, Miles, fl. 1568-1582.Date: 1724- E-books
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A voyage to California, to observe the transit of Venus. By Mons. Chappe d'Auteroche. With an historical description of the author's route through Mexico, and the natural history of that province. Also, a voyage to Newfoundland and Sallee, to make experiments on Mr. Le Roy's time keepers. By Monsieur de Cassini
Chappe d'Auteroche, abb�e, 1728-1769.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- E-books
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A voyage round the world by the way of the great South Sea, perform'd in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24, Guns and 100 Men, (under His Majesty's Commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late War with the Spanish Crown) till she was cast away on the Island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720; and afterwards continu'd in the Racevery, the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c. By Capt. George Shelvocke, Commander of the Speedwell, Recovery, &c. in this Expedition
George ShelvockeDate: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- E-books
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Life in Mexico during a residence of two years in that country by Mme. C de la B.
Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis), 1804?-1882.Date: 1843 [c1842]