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which it is proposed ultimately to issue. Most of these materials belong 

 either to the West Florida section of the "Papeles" or to that comprising the 

 correspondence of the captains-general of Havana. 



Meantime, and in addition, some fifty selected legajos have received a 

 more elaborate treatment at the hands of the clerks, usually three in number, 

 employed by Mr. Hill, who have in each such case made full lists of the 

 documents embraced in the bundle. It is not expected that these detailed 

 and voluminous calendars will be immediately printed, but they will be pre- 

 served in the offices of the Department and made available to investigators 

 through direct consultation or through inexpensive copies. The Depart- 

 ment's special apparatus for the photographing of manuscripts is now at 

 Seville, and Mr. Hill has been using it to good effect in securing full copies 

 of a number of documents selected as of especial historical importance. 



Particular recognition should be made of the favors and courtesies shown 

 to Mr. Hill by Senor Don Pedro Torres Lanzas, the chief director of the 

 Archives of the Indies, and of the obliging kindness of the American consul 

 in Seville, Mr. Charles S. Winans. Mr. Hill's vacation was mostly spent in 

 Switzerland, affording opportunity for conference with the Director of the 

 Department in respect to the work thus far done and that with which the re- 

 maining months of Mr. Hill's service will be occupied. Another part of Mr. 

 Hill's vacation was spent in Lisbon, where, as at Seville, he gave useful assist- 

 ance to Miss Davenport in the way of locating and photographing treaties. 



It remains to speak of one more, though quite minor, expedition for the 

 search of archives. A volume is some time to be prepared upon the mate- 

 rials for American history in the archives of Switzerland, which means, for 

 the most part, in the archives of the Swiss cantons, since those of the Con- 

 federation are of little importance for American purposes. The archives of 

 the German-speaking cantons have a very large importance for the history 

 of the great movement of German migration to America in the seventeenth, 

 eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, to which German Switzerland contrib- 

 uted an exceptionally large contingent. These archives might logically have 

 been included in Professor Learned's German searches ; but the amount of 

 time at his disposal necessarily restricted his work to archives within the 

 German Empire. The archives of the German cantons of Switzerland fall to 

 be treated by a separate expedition, of which more will be said in a later sec- 

 tion of this report. Those of the five French-speaking cantons are a distinct 

 matter, and could with entire appropriateness be dealt with independently 

 of what is proposed for the German portion of the republic. Migration to 

 America from the French cantons has always been of slight proportions 

 and the materials in their archives which bear on American history are 



small in quantity and miscellaneous in character, requiring for their treat- 

 ment not an expert specialist, like those who have made Germanic-American 

 history their peculiar province, but merely a person having a general knowl- 

 edge of American history. Accordingly the Director resolved to treat these 

 archives himself, since it seemed requisite for him to go to Europe for other 



