A LITERARY AND
HISTORICAL ATLAS OF
NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

INTRODUCTION

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When General Hamilton spoke in the Federalist over acentury ago of "an empire, in many respects the most interestingin the world," meaning the United States of America,he did not, he could not, foresee the vast growth of his countryand its northern and southern neighbours which this bookportrays. The volume is the third in a series of small atlases,meant to cover in turn the whole globe, and to do it in a wayto knit up geographical and historical knowledge with thefacts of commerce and the literary record of each land orregion. One chief purpose of these maps is to trace clearlythe development of the United States, beginning with "themost remarquable parts" of the New England of the PilgrimFathers, described by Captain John Smith in 1614, and notforgetting the territories of the old American-Indian nations.Some inkling too is given in facsimile of the early charts, views,and maps by the explorers and cartographers who made asurvey of the first settlements. For example, we have an oldmap of Guiana invaluable as a Sir Walter Raleigh record,giving the mouths of the Oronoke, or Orinoco, where his mentugged against the stream, and stretching southward to theAmazon itself, and we get from the map of Peru at theperiod of the Conquest a clear idea of the country in thetime of Pizarro.

As with the great rivers, so with the great American cities.You can compare "old New York," as represented in one page,with the new New York and its environs which are a world'swonder to-day. Then again you can take the chart of theEarly Highways t

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