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The history of Mexico. Collected from Spanish and Mexican historians, from manuscripts, and ancient paitings of the Indians. Illustrated by charts, and other copper plates. To which are added, critical dissertations on the land, the animals, and inhabitants of Mexico. By Abbe D. Francesco Saverio Clavigero. Translated from the original Italian, by Charles Cullen, Esq

Catalog Data

Author:
Clavigero, F. S  Search this
Type:
Citations
Date:
1787
Notes:
Manati or lamentin, i, p. 62, 63. The text gives but 10 lines to this animal, to which are added footnotes to the amount of 18 lines. There is a second English edition (1807) wth the same pagination; A later American reprint (1817) in which the passage about the manatee appears in v. i, p. 83. There are German and other translations not seen by me.
Topic:
West Indian manatee  Search this
Caribbean manatee  Search this
Taxonomy:
Sirenia--Trichechidae--Trichechus--manatus
Data Source:
Marine Mammals Bibliography
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_bib_8104