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The civil and natural history of Jamaica

Publication Type:Book
Year of Publication:1756
Authors:P. Browne
Number of Pages:503
Publisher:Privately published
City:London
Other Numbers:Papyrus 908
Keywords:CATALOGUE, JAMAICA, SPHINGIDAE
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The full title is: "The civil and natural history of Jamaica. In three parts. Containing, I. An accurate description of that island, its situation and soil; with a brief account of its former and present state, government, resources, produce and trade. II. A history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils; perfect and imperfect vegetables; quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet and physic. III. An account of the nature of climates in general, and their different effects upon the human body; with a detail of the diseases arising from this source, particularly within the tropics. In three dissertations. The whole illustrated with fifty copper-plates: in which the most curious productions are represented of the natural size, and delineated immediately from the objects". "The Muskeeto Hawk" is described and figured on p. 438, pl. 43, fig. 17.
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