PITTMAN'S MISSISSIPPI SETTLEMENTS 



Pittman's Mississippi Settlements contains much valuable original ma- 

 ^ 7 7 7 terial for the study of the French and Spanish 



^ VatUaOle settlements of old Louisiana, West Florida, and 

 source work ^^^ Illinois country. The author. Captain Philip 

 Pittman, was a British military engineer, and 

 gives an accurate general view of the Mississippi Settlements just after 

 the English came into possession of the eastern half of the valley by 

 the Peace of 1763. His account, written from personal observation, 

 is rich in allusions to the political, social, and military readjustments 

 resulting from this change of possession. "A comprehensive account 

 of the Illinois country and its inhabitants, with sketches in detail of 

 the several French posts and villages situated therein, as personally 

 viewed by him in 1766-67. . . . It contains, in a compact form, much 

 useful and reliable information (nowhere else to be found) concern- 

 ing the Mississippi Valley and its people at that transition period." 

 — Wallace: Illinois and Louisiana under French Rule. 



Dr. William F. Poole in Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of 

 CT"? /• . America sdiys: " It is the earliest English 



1 flC BUT lies t account of those settlements, and, as an 



English account "^"^^'"'l ^" ""''^y ^"^S"" ?i''°'^' '-f °^ '^^ 



o highest importance, rie [rittmanj was a 



military engineer, and for five years was employed in surveying the 

 Mississippi River and exploring the western country. The excellent 

 plans which accompany the work, artistically engraved on copper, 

 add greatly to its value." 



An introduction, notes, and index have been supplied by Professor 

 yj . 7 Frank Heywood Hodder, who has made a 



yinftOtClttOn t?y special study of American historical geo- 



'ofESSOr HoddBT^"^^^^"^' "'^ value of the reprint is thus 

 enhanced by annotation embodying the re- 

 sults of the latest researches in this field of American history. 



Profe. 



The edition is limited to 500 copies, each numbered. It is hand- 

 somely printed in large Caslon type on Dickinson's deckle-edged 

 paper. With folding maps and plans. Large 8vo, cloth, uncut, gilt top. 



Price ^^.00 net. 



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