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BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA.

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"Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost." ST. JOHN.

"There is, perhaps, no nation in which it is so necessary, as in our own, to assemble, from time to time, the small tracts and fugitive pieces, which are occasionally published; for, besides the general subjects of enquiry, which are cultivated by us, in common with every other learned nation, our constitution in church and state naturally gives birth to a multitude of performances, which would either not have been written, or could not have been made publick in any other place." S. JOHNSON.

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IN

NEW YORK,

AND PART OF ITS

TERRITORIES IN AMERICA.

BY CHARLES WOOLEY, A. M.,e. Will

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND COPIOUS HISTORICAL NOTES

BY E. B. O'CALLAGHAN, M. D.,

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. }

Fir'd at the sound, my genius spreads her wing,
And flies where Britain courts the Western spring;
Where laws extend that scorn Arcadian pride,
And brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspis glide.
There all around the gentlest breezes stray,

There gentle music melts on ev'ry spray;

Creation's mildest charms are there combin'd;

Extremes are only in the master's mind!—Goldsmith.

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of ofl-olive, and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee... ......Deuteronomy 8: 7, 8.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by

W. GOWANS,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.

MUNSELL & ROWLAND, PRINTERS, ALBANY, N. I.

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