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Travel Diary: August 7 To August 9, 1914, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson
Travel Diary: August 7 To August 9, 1914, Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson
Travel Diaries, 1914-1918
A typed copy of diary entries dated August 7 to August 9, 1914. Huntington-Wilson documents his travels throughout the Bolivian mountains, his opinions on the Bolivian character between indigenous and European settlers, and possible revolution looming on the horizon for Bolivia.
New-England Or A Briefe Enarration Of The Ayre, Earth, Water, Fish And Fowles Of That Country. With A Description Of The Natures, Orders, Habits, And Religion Of The Natives; In Latine And English Verse, William Morrell, Andrew Gaudio , Editor
New-England Or A Briefe Enarration Of The Ayre, Earth, Water, Fish And Fowles Of That Country. With A Description Of The Natures, Orders, Habits, And Religion Of The Natives; In Latine And English Verse, William Morrell, Andrew Gaudio , Editor
Electronic Texts in American Studies
This text, a Latin poem in dactylic hexameter with an accompanying English translation in heroic verse stands as the earliest surviving work of poetry about New England and the second oldest poem whose origins can be traced directly to the British American colonies. Only two copies of the original 1625 edition are known to survive; one is held at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the other is housed at the British Museum. The Latin portion comprises 309 lines and praises the geographic features, flora and fauna of New England, and spends a majority of its verses describing …