Engraved by HB. Mith Some from the Sharpins Fortrait of Charles Brockden Brown now on the walls of Independence Hall, Philadelphia.

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A LIBRARY OF

AMERICAN LITERATURE

FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT

TO THE PRESENT TIME

COMPILED AND EDITED BY

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN AND
ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON

IN TEN VOLUMES

VOL. IV

NEW-YORK

CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY

1888

COPYRIGHT, 1888,

BY CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY.

(All rights reserved.)