District of New-York, ss. L. 8. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-seventh day of May, in the thirtyeighth year of the independence of the United States of America, David Hosack, John Pintard, and John W. Francis, of the said District, have deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words and figures following, to wit: Collections of the New-York Historical Society, for the year 1814. Volume II. Hæc "olim meminisse juvabit." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States. entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the Authors and proprietors, of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled, An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints." THERON RUDD, Clerk of the District Court for the District of New-York. Discourse delivered before the New-York Historical So- ciety, December 6, 1810. By Hugh Williamson, M. D. LL. D. &c. Discourse delivered on the 6th of December, 1811. By the Hon. De Witt Clinton, LL. D. Discourse delivered on the 6th of December, 1812. By the Discourse delivered on the 6th of December, 1813. By Sa- 117 149 An Extract of a Translation of the History of New Sweed Land, in America, written in Sweed by Thomas Campa- nius Holm, late of New Sweed Land al's Delaware, CATALOGUE of the Books, Tracts, Newspapers, Maps, Charts, 343 PREFACE. CIRCUMSTANCES, not within control, have retarded the appearance of this second volume of the Collections of the New-York Historical Society. The publication of the Anniversary Discourses, which have been regularly delivered before the Society, renders the present volume less miscellaneous than what the future will be. The Society possesses ample resources, as well in manuscript as print, extremely rare and interesting, the publication of which must depend on that patronage which these Collections may receive. With the growing taste for literature and science, so rapidly advancing in the United States, it is reasonably expected that a laudable curiosity will be directed towards the study of our national history, and that liberal encouragement will be extended to invigorate the efforts of the Society in rescuing from oblivion documents, which must constitute the materials/ for the use of the future historian. Of such is the narrative of De La Salle's expedition and discoveries, by the Chevalier Tonti, translated and published in London in 1698: A C very scarce work, and which furnishes the best account extant of the fate of this enterprising but unfortunate discoverer. De La Salle was the first European who, towards the close of the seventeenth century, by pursuing the course of the St. Lawrence and the lakes, descended the waters of the Mississippi to their discharge into the gulf of Mexico, where he arrived on the seventh of April, 1683. The particulars of this voyage, though partaking of the narrator's embellish n. |
