Portugal - Description and travel - Early works to 1800
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New voyages to North-America . Containing an account of the several nations of that vast continent; their customs, commerce, and way of navigation upon the lakes and rivers; the several Attempts of the English and French to dispossess one another; with the Reasons of the Miscarriage of the former; and the various Adventures between the French, and the Iroquese Confederates of England, from 1683 to 1694. A Geographical Description of Canada, and a Natural History of the Country, with Remarks upon their Government, and the Interest of the English and French in their Commerce. Also a Dialogue between the Author and a General of the Savages, giving a full View of the Religion and strange Opinions of those People: With an Account of the Author's Retreat to Portugal and Denmark, and his Remarks on those Courts. To which is added, A Dictionary of the Algonkine Language, which is generally spoke in North-America. Illustrated with twenty-three maps and cuts. Written in French by the Baron Lahontan, Lord Lieutenant of the French Colony at Placentia in Newfoundland, at that Time in England. Done into English.
Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, Baron de, 1666-1715?.Date: M,DCC,XXXV. [1735]- E-books
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Letters written during a short residence in Spain and Portugal , by Robert Southey. With some account of Spanish and Portugueze poetry.
Robert SoutheyDate: 1797- E-books
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A brief account of some Lent and other extraordinary processions and ecclesiastical entertainments seen last year at Lisbon. In four letters to an English friend, by George Whitefield, late of Pembroke College; And Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Countess of Huntingdon.
George WhitefieldDate: MDCCLV. [1755]- E-books
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Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Cherington , containing a genuine description of the government, and manners of the present Portuguese.
Muller, Richard, d. 1778.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- E-books
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Travels through Portugal and Spain, in 1772 and 1773 . By Richard Twiss, Esq. F.R.S. With copper-plates; and an appendix.
Twiss, Richard, 1747-1821.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]