| AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
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Art. sin a eg ec and Geographical Notes on the. earliest 
Discoveries in America; by HENRY Stevens of Vermont, 
F.S.A., ete., - Trafalgar geass London. 
EXPLANATORY. 
+ In February last the writer was asked by his brother, Mr. 
Simon Stevens of New Yor ork, President of the Tehuantepec Rail- 
way Compan any: to contribute to his foithacriniig book on Tehu- 
istorical Introduction on the earliest discoveries 
of th the on ib je ob I The writer ‘ssvepted the 7 
portunity, not expecting perhaps so much to aid the en e 
4S to give shape and expression to certain ideas oe me Dor 
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fusion gro 
in ‘hae a meer fh as a and d chronology of the new Con- 
oy es rie with considerable revi- 
petecently vast stores of  iaeial of American history ha 
Lest site eke to light. Old books and maps have tamed up. 
Bilin has become an exact science. Documen 
tinized iret as they never were before. New -ie 
ical books have been written, old ones revived, annotat ted, edited 
and rep duced, to such an extent "an an 
AM. Jour. Sct.—Sconp Series, Vor. XLVIII, No. 144—Nov., 1869. — 
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