ss and mutilation. The
new volume has come to hand too late for any elaborate notice or review
of its contents; but a glance at the list of papers and illustrations
alone warrants the opinion we have expressed. We notice particularly the
account of Champlain's explorations in Northern New-York, &c., from 1609
to 1615--translated from the edition of 1632. The historical student
cannot fail to note the coincidence of discovery and exploration by the
Dutch and French; and the credit due to the "Founder of New France;" to
which we have alluded in the article on the Jesuit Relations. The
translations of the extracts from Wassenaar (1624, etc.), give an
interesting cotemporaneous view of the progress of the European
discoveries and settlements in America. A chapter on Medals and Coins
contains attractive matter, particularly that portion which relates to
the "Rosa Americana coins," connected as they are with the "Wood's
half-pence," immortalized by Dean Swift. The notes and biographical
sketches by the editor, scattered through the volume, add materially to
its value--as also the numerous maps and engravings. We have heard hints
that some small suggestions of disinterested economists of the public
money, or other considerations less creditable, have been brought to
bear against the continuation of this publication--but we trust that
they will end when they begin. New-York owes it to her own great history
to make its material accessible to all.

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Colonel Albert J. Pickett, of Montgomery, has in the press of Walker and
James, of Charleston, _The History of Alabama, and incidentally of
Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period_. It will make two
handsome volumes, and from some passages of it which we have read, we
believe it will be a work of very unusual attraction. It will embrace an
account of the invasion of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi,
by De Soto, in 1539-41; of the Aborigines of these states, their
appearance, manners and customs, games, amusements, wars, and religious
ceremonies, their ancient mounds and fortifications, and of the modern
Indians, the Creeks, Chickasaws Choctaws, Alabamas, Uchees, Cherokees,
and other tribes; the discovery and settlement of Alabama and
Mississippi by the French, and their occupation until 1763; the
occupation of Alabama and Mississippi by the British for eighteen years;
the colonization of Georgia by the English; the occupati