་གའ། DESCRIPTION OF THE PROVINCE AND CITY OF NEW YORK; WITH PLANS OF THE CITY AND SEVERAL FORTS AS THEY EXISTED IN THE YEAR 1695. BY JOHN MILLER. A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND COPIOUS HISTORICAL NOTES. BY JOHN GILMARY SHEA, LL. D., MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. "Here lofty trees, to ancient song unknown, The noble sons of potent heat and floods, Prone-rushing from the clouds, rear high to Heaven Their thorny stems; and broad around them throw Meridian gloom. Here, in eternal prime, Unnumber'd fruits, of keen, delicious taste And vital spirit, drink amid the cliffs, And burning sands that bank the shrubby vales."-THOMSON. "It is from the bosom of colonies that civil liberty nearly in all ages has set forth; Greece had no Solon till the colonies of Asia Minor had attained their highest degree of splendor; and while the parent country could only boast of a single legislator, whose object was only to form citizens, and not merely warriors, nearly every colony of Greece and Sicily possessed its Zallucus or Charondes. In this way Indeed, every commercial state may be said to live again in the colonies it has founded. And though Europe should again experience the dreadful misfortune to sink under the yoke of despotism or anarchy, into the gloomy horrors of barbarism, Providence has provided for its re-birth, by scattering the seeds of civilization over every part of the globe; exhibiting in our day the astonishing spectacle, never before displayed, of ripened civilization in one part, while in others it is yet in blossom, or only pushing forth its earliest buds.”. ..... A. H. L. HEEREN. ay 1913 3 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by W. GOWANS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. J. MUNSELL, PRINTER, ALBANY. The subscriber announces to the public, that he intends publishing a series of works, relating to the history, literature, biography, antiquities and curiosities of the Continent of America. To be entitled GOWANS' BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. The books to form this collection, will chiefly consist of reprints from old and scarce works, difficult to be produced in this country, and often also of very rare occurence in Europe; occasionally an original work will be introduced into the series, designed to throw light upon some obscure point of American history, or to elucidate the biography of some of the distinguished men of our land. Faithful reprints of every work published will be given to the public; nothing will be added, except in the way of notes, or introduction, which will be presented entirely distinct from the body of the work. They will be brought out in the best style, both as to the type, press work and paper, and in such a manner as to make them well worthy a place in any gentleman's library. A part will appear about once every six months, or oftener, if the public taste demand it; each part forming an entire work, either an original production, or a reprint of some valuable, and at the same time scarce tract. From eight or twelve parts will form a handsome octavo volume, which the publisher is well assured, will be esteemed entitled to a high rank in every collection of American history and literature. Should reasonable encouragement be given, the whole collection may in the course of no long period of time become not less voluminous, and quite as valuable to the student in American bistory, as the celebrated Harleian Miscellany is now to the student and lover of British historical antiquities. W. GOWANS, Publisher. |