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AN

ILLUMINATED HISTORY

OF

NORTH AMERICA,

FROM

THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME;

COMPRISING

THE EARLY DISCOVERIES BY THE SPANISH, FRENCI, AND OTHER NAVIGATORS ; A SKETCII OF THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS AND AMERICAN ANTIQCITIES; AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA,

GREENLAND, AND THE PRESENT BRITISII PROVINCES;

WITH A COMPLETE

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE PRESENT TIME,

INCLUDING

THE FRENCII AND INDIAN WARS, TIIE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, THAT OF 1812, AND THE LATE WAR WITH MEXICO; AND A COMPLETE ACCOUNT OF CALIFORNIA, VALUABLE STATISTICAL TABLES

FROM TIIE LATE CENSUS, ETC., ETC.

BY JOIN FROST, LL.D.

Illustrated with purr Four Landred Engravings,

CONSISTING OF

BATTLE SCENES, VIEWS OF CITIES, PROMINENT EVENTS, AND PORTRAITS OF

DISTINGUISHED MEN,
FROM DESIGNS OF CROOME, DEVEREUX, AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS.

[SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION.]

NEW YORK:
H E N R Y BILL.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
HENRY BILL,

,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Connecticut.