A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States (1848) (14780265144)

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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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at their invitation, sentan intelligent agent to Europe, a fewyears ago, Mr. Brodhead, who broughtback an invaluable collection of docu-ments, in different languages, from thearchives of Holland, France, and Eng-land, respectively illustrating the peri-ods of Dutch settlement and rule, ofEnglish extension and French invasion. ( Future historians will hud here a richaddition to previous annals, and themeans of correcting former errors andof illustrating numerous points whichrcfjuire elucidation. Indian antiquities have been studiedwith zeal, and are now prosecuted withnew advantages. Under the authorityof the legislature, that well-qualified in-vestigator, Henry R. Schoolcraft, wasemployed in 1846, to take a census ofthe Indians in the state ; and he collect-ed a mass of the most valuable facts ev-er obtained, relating to any family ofthe human race, illustr.ating the chan-ges occurring in the transition state,from the savage toward tlie civilizedcondition. In this survey, as might be
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152 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. expected, the influence of Christianityis strongly exhibited, as the gxand civil-izing agent, and lessons of an impor-tant character are given, w^ell calculatedto guide philantluopists in their futureundertakings in favor of the much-neg-lected, abused, and belied race of red-men. The reader must be referred for in-formation on the history of this state inall its different periods and epochs, tothe following authors among many oth-ers : Golden, Smith, Clinton, Campbell,Yates, Moulton, &c. Barbers volumeis well adapted to the common reader,abounding in local descriptions and an-ecdotes, illustrated with many engra-vings. We have here merely room toallude to the chief events in the earlyhistory of the colony. Henry Hudson, an Englishman in theservice of the Dutch East India compa-ny, discovered the Hudson river in 1609,and ascended it about one hundred andsixty miles. It was in consequence ofthis discovery, that the Dutch laid claimto the te