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INDEX.

[N. B. The figures refer to the United States; and the numerals to the Aborigines. ]

A.

ABERCROMBIE, commander in chief of North America, 141-goes against
Canada, 148-abortive attack upon Ticonderoga, 150.

Aborigines. See Indians.

Abraham, battle on the plains of, 161-3.

Acadia, or Nova Scotia, 129.

Adams, Mr. John, Mr. M'Kean's letters to, 295-opinion concerning the first
movers of the revolution, 310-11.

Adirondacks, war of, with the Five Nations, cxxix.
Albemarle Sound settled by Virginians, 66.

duke of, first palatine of Carolina, 68.

Albany, Fort Orange, subdued, 63-congress at, 132-council of war at, 140.
Alexander, Sir William, 38.

America, Plato's Atlantis, ix-xii-claimants to the original discovery of, the
Phoenicians, xi, xii-Welsh, xii-Mandeville's British adventurer, xiii-
the Chinese, xv-Norwegians, xvi-Normans, xvii-Germans, ibid.-
peopled by the descendants of persons left in a submersion of ground,
xviii-by emigrants over Behring's Strait, xix-by antediluvians, xx-
xxiii-comparison of the different theories, xxiv, xxv-similarities of lan-
guage, manners, and monuments, xxv-names of places in the New World
similar to those in the Old, xxvi, xxvii-names of things, xxvii-xxxiii
-Welsh and American, xxvii, xxviii-Hebrew and American, xxviii-xxx
-Tartar and American, xxx-xxxiii-Japanese and Mexican, xxxiii-
remarks upon these similarities, xxxiv-liabilities to error in taking
down Indian names, xxxiv-xxxvii-in extracting their etymology, xxxvii,
xxxviii-instance in the word 'culprit,' xxxviii-xli-Mohawk,' xli-
‘Virginia,' xlii—‘kaniche,' (sugar-cane), ib.-' beccos,' xliii-Indian
traditions unworthy of confidence, xliii-xlvi-similarities of custom,
monuments, &c. between the natives of the Old and New Worlds, xlvii-
li-whether they prove the latter to have come from the former, lii-lv
-what the facts do prove, lvi-mounds and pyramids, lx, lxi-history
of, lxi-lxv-no proof of imitation, Ixi-native country of the potato, cxxv,
note-not of the mosquito, cxi, cxii.

American military character treated with contempt in England, 217-310.
Amherst, general, 148-commander in chief, 153-purposes to overwhelm
Canada, 164-sends succours to South Carolina, 176.

Amidas and Barlow's voyage, 5.

An, Mexican and Tartar words ending in, xxxiii.

SS

Andros, Sir Edmund, governor of New England, 75-of New York, 76—
claims Connecticut and oppresses his own people, ib.-removed, 77—
re-appointed, 78.

Animals attached to particular spots, xxi-whether all created in Paradise,
xxii.

Annapolis, Port Royal, 88.

Anne, queen, attempts to settle the value of coin in Carolina, 92-orders the
discontinuance of presents to the colonial governors, 94.

Apalachi of Florida, whence derived, xxvi.

Architecture among the early aborigines, lxxxii.

naval, among do. xcviii.

Argal, capt. takes Pocahontas, 20-goes against Port Royal, 20, 21—makes
Manhadoes tributary, 21-governor of Virginia, 22.

Aristotle, 319, note-xi.

Arminon, Newton's derivation of, xxxvii.

Associations against British trade and manufactures, 187-of the Sons of Liberty,
ib.-non-importation, origin, progress, and dissolution of, 194-5.

Atala, Hindoo tradition of, xviii.

Atlantis, Plato's, ix-identified with America, x-how interpreted by differ-
ent authors, xviii-xxiii.

Atlas, the son of Neptune, ix-a Phoenician admiral, xi.
Attakullakulla, a Cherokee chief, 170.

Ax, Mexican and Tartar words ending in, xxxiii.
Ayscue, Sir George, agent of Cromwell to Virginia, 27.

Bacon's insurrection in Virginia, 70.

B.

lord, interpretation of Plato's Altlantis, xxiii.

Baltimore, lord, patentee of Maryland, 28-makes laws for his colony, 29.
Barlow. See Amidas.

Barnwell, col. 91.

Barton's New Views of the Indians, xxx-list of American and Tartar words

from, xxx-xxxiii.

Beauharnois, M, governor of Canada, 108.

Berkely, Sir W. governor of Virginia, 27.

lord, grantee with Carteret, of New Jersey, 64.
Bermuda, granted to the proprietors of Virginia, 19, 20.
Becanus proves the Germans the first born people, xliii.
Belcher, Mr., governor of Mass. 105.

Belknap, quoted, 123.

Bernard, governor of Mass. 190.

Bills of credit in Massachusetts, 83, 98, 100, 103, 107, 127.

Carolina, 89, 91, 111, 112.

New York, 93, 94.

New Jersey, 93.
Connecticut, 93.
Rhode Island, 107.

Binkies and Evertzen take New York, 76.

Blackstone's derivation of 'culprit,' xxxviii, xxxix.
Blair, Mr., governor of Virginia, 250.

Boscawen, admiral, 134-148.

Boston, founded, 36-insurrection of, (in 1689,) 76-association to issue bills
of credit, 107-council of war at, 143-taxes supported by the people

of, 147-riot at, 190-sets on foot a convention at Fenuil Hall, 191-
provokes a quarrel with the soldiery, 192—Capt. Preston cleared, 193—
harbour, tea emptied into, 202-port bill, 202-league and covenant,'
206-Neck, guard stationed at, alarms the interior, 214-Neck, fortifi-
ed, 215-people resolve to quit the peninsula, ib.-select men prevent
the labourers from working at the barracks, 216.

Boston Gazette, Putnam's letter in the, 289-the oracle of Mas. 305.
Boudinot's Star in the West, xxviii, note-lii.

Bouquet, col. expedition against the Indians, 180-defeats the Indians in their
own way, 181-design of cutting a new road, 251.

Braddock, gen. sails to America, 134-expedition and defeat of, 135, 136-
death, 137.

Bradstreet, col. takes Fort Frontignac, 151.

Breton, Cape, the ‘Dunkirk of America,' 123—project of taking, ib.—advan-
tages of, to the English colonies, 149.

British, early, circumnavigator, xiv-essay to prove the old language the
same with that spoken at Darien, xxviii.

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Burke, 218.

Burnet, Mr. Wm., governor of Mass. 103-death, 105.

Mr., governor of New York, and New Jersey, 105.

C.

Cabots, voyages of the, 2.

Cabot, Sebastian, enters the service of Spain, 4.

Caffiniere, 81.

Calvert, gov. of Maryland, 28-is driven to Virginia, 30.
Cambridge college founded, 53.

Campaign, plan of the first colonial, against Canada, 134-of the second, 140
-of the third, 148—of the fourth, 153.

Canada, first expedition against, 85-second, 86-third, 87-fourth, 88-
population, in 1747, 130.

derivation of, xxvi.

Canterbury, archbishop of, empowered to govern New England, 37.
Carolina granted to Lord Clarendon and others, 66, 67-Locke's constitu-
tion, 67-Culpepper, 69-tithables, ib.-poverty, ib.-abandon Mr.
Locke's system, 70-expedition against St. Augustine, 89-against the
Appalachian Indians, 90-disputes with the proprietors, ib.-attacked
by the Spaniards, ib.-disputes with the proprietors, 111, 112-bills of
credit, id. ibid—the proprietary government shaken off, 113-14—divid-
ed into North and South, 115-population, in 1747, 130-war with the
Cherokees, 168-South, defenceless state of, 176.

-, South, sends delegates to the N. Y. congress, 187-history of the
Indians in, clxii.

North, insurrection against the fee-bill, 196-history of the Indians in,
clix, clx.

Carpets among the early aborigines, ciii.

Carribbee like the Hebrew, xxviii-xxx.

Catawbas, history of, clxii.

Carteret subdues Fort Albany, 63-grantee of New Jersey, 64.

Carthagenians, supposed voyages of, to America, xi.

Catholics, Roman, first settlers of Maryland, 28.

Cave, the Judges', 277.

Ceremonies, marriage, similar in Mexico and Hindostan, xlviii-dissimilarities,
liii.

Chalmers' derivation of 'culprit,' xl, xli.

Champlain, lake, secured by the French, 109-whence named, cxxix.

Charles I. takes the monopoly of tobacco, 26-attempts to prevent emigra-
tion, 36-39-judges of (Goffe and Whalley). See Judges.

Charles II. restoration of, 28-difference of its effects on Virginia and New
England, 56, 65, 69, 73, 74.

Charleston founded, 70-attacked by the Spaniards, 90—burnt, 119.
Charlestown, Old, founded, 68.

Cherokees, origin of the war with, (1760,) 168-chiefs imprisoned, 169—
peace, 171-broken by them, 173—price of their scalps, 178-peace,
ib.-history of the tribe, clxi.

Chesapeake explored by Smith, 15, 16.

Chatham, lord, 217, 218.

China overrun by the Tartars, xv.

Chinese supposed to have founded Mexico, xv-wrecks of vessels in Florida, xvi.
inventors of printing and gunpowder, lx.

Chickasaws, history of, clxiv.

Chiapaneca of Nicaragua, whence derived, xxvii.
Chippewas, history of, clv-their prophet, clxx, note.
Christian Commonwealth, a book proscribed in Mass. 57.
judge, derivation of 'culprit,' xxxix, xl.

Church, English, established in Virginia, 11.

colonel, 84.

Chonsuli of Nicaragua, whence derived, xxvi.

Clap, president's, opinion on the expense of working mines, 264.
Clarendon, lord, grantee of Carolina, 66.

-, county of, 67.

Clayborne, driven from Maryland, excites an insurrection and drives out
Calvert, 29, 30.

Cleanliness among the early aborigines, lxxxii.

Cod, Cape, discovered, 9.

Colonels Dismounted, a pamphlet, 110.

Colony, Roanoke, settled by Raleigh, 6-improvidence and misery of, ib.-
return to England, ib.-second company, 7-loss of, 8.
Jamestown. See Virginia.

Maryland. See Maryland.

New Plymouth. See Massachusetts.
Salem. See Massachusetts.

-, New Haven. See Connecticut.

New Hampshire. See New Hampshire.

Rhode Island. See Rhode Island.

Colonies, peace concluded between the English and French, 102-increase
of, in population, 109-plan to attack Canada, 126-French and English
cross each other, 129-comparative strength of, 130-occasion of their
rupture, 131-discontent of the English, 139-taxes of, 141-remissness
of, censured by Lord Loudoun, 143-boundaries of the French and
English, by the treaty of Paris, 167-all the English, except N. Hamp-
shire, agree to the proposal of a general congress, 186-associations.
against British trade and manufactures, 187-joy at the repeal of the

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