Mr. W. W. Duffield, the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, supplied the artist with the coast charts from which the maps in this volume were drawn.
To avoid misapprehension, it is needful to say that this is not a re-issue of anything I have heretofore produced. The lectures on the culture history of the United States given at Columbia College and other institutions were never written or reported. The papers on colonial life contributed to the Century Magazine in 1882, and the years following, were on a different plan and scale; they have merely served the purpose of preliminary studies of the general subject. To the editor and publishers of the Century Magazine I am obliged for their courtesy in all affairs relating to my contract with them, and for an arrangement which enables me to have free use of my material.
Joshua's Rock, Lake George, October, 1896.
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
RISE OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY.
CHAPTER THE FIRST.
English Knowledge and Notion of America at the Period of Settlement [1]
CHAPTER THE SECOND.
James River Experiments [25]
CHAPTER THE THIRD.