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Title: American history:
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Willson, Marcius, 1813-1905. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Indians of North America. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, M. H. Newman & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e on Nova Scotia, from which period until1827 the government of the island was administered bynaval commanders appointed to cruise on the fishing sta-tion, but who returned to England during the winter.Since 1827 the government has been administered byresident governors ; and in 1832, at the earnest solicita-tion of the inhabitants, a representative assembly wasgranted them. 7. °The present British settlements are in the south-eastern part of the island. St. John, the capital, is sit-uated on the most eastern part of the coast, and after allits improvements, still bears the aspect of a fishingstation. 1660. 1. French set-tlements. 1692. 2. Hostilitiesbetween theEnglish andFrench,—ter-minated bytlie treaty of Ryswick. 1697. 1702. 3. Renewalof hostilities,and successesof the French. 4. Ncufound- laiid,—hoto affected by tin treaty of Utrecht. 1713. 1729. 5. With-drawal fromNova Scotia,and subse-quent gov-ernment ofthe island. 6 The pre-sent Britishsettlements.7. St John,the capital.
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PART II. HISTORY OF MEXICO. CHAPTEE I. ABORIGINAL MEXICO. 1. At the time of the discovery of America, nearly analysisthe whole continent was occupied by barbarous and wan- i. Indian dering tribes, of whose history little that is authentic can America.now be learned. ^The aboriginal Mexicans, however, 2. pe^^orf-differed essentially from the great mass of the race to team.which they apparently belonged. They had made consi- 3- smenf . f .%.,. P • . , civilization derable advances m civilization—were an agricultural peo- amons them.pie—had built flourishing and populous cities,—and wereunited under a regular system of government. ^A brief •„/, ,y°account of their history, of the state of the arts among tory,iohy ,, 1 c 1 . ,./,... . , ° interesting. them, and ot their political institutions, national manners,and religion, cannot fail to be interesting and useful, as itwill exhibit the human species in a very singular stage ofits upward progress from barbarism. 2. ^The Tolt

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