Description of the Dismal Swamp and a Proposal to Drain the Swamp (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Byrd, William

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ISBN 10: 1332119409 ISBN 13: 9781332119400

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Sheet 2, p. 1, is headed Coll. Washington Company, and is a detailed surveyor's description of the property. It commences: Beginning at a point at the Mouth of Poison Swamp, running thence, and then embraces about 110 closely written surveyor's entries, delimiting the boundaries, and filling the whole page.

Sheet 2, p. 2, contains a blank ms. Legal document drawn up by Justice Henry Reddick, and has nothing to do with the land records. The sheet was convenient for the. Surveyor, and he used the other side of it.

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Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733. A Progress to the Mines...in 1732. An Essay on bulk Tobacco. Miscellaneous Papers.

The Writings of "Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, Esq." Edited by John Spencer Bassett. Illustrated. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. lxxxviii, 461 pages.

It was through the enterprise of Edmund Ruffin that the Westover Manuscripts were first given to the public, as the appendix to volume 9 of the Farmers' Register. This appendix was also issued separately, and is best known in the separate form; it is the first of the three editions listed.

In the History of the Dividing Line is the journal of the survey of the North Carolina boundary through the Dismal Swamp. This was written in 1728. The "Description of the Dismal, with the Proposal to drain it," as reprinted in this present volume, was written sometime between 1728 and 1737. This is determined by the author's suggestion of the Earl of Orkney, who died in 1737, as one who should be invited to encourage subscriptions to shares of the company. The text of this reprint is from the Farmers' Register, volume 4, pages 521 to 524.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332119409
• ISBN 13: 9781332119400
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 36