Excerpt from The Life, Travels and Adventures of Ferdinand De Soto: Discoverer of the Misissippi But every feeling of discontent vanished when I discovered how little advantage my highly-favored countrymen gained from their inspection of those secluded manuscripts. Mr. Irving assures us that they contain much which would elucidate some very Obscure passages of American history but neither he nor Mr. Prescott has made any important addition to this department of useful knowledge. All that is valuable in the writings of ...
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Excerpt from The Life, Travels and Adventures of Ferdinand De Soto: Discoverer of the Misissippi But every feeling of discontent vanished when I discovered how little advantage my highly-favored countrymen gained from their inspection of those secluded manuscripts. Mr. Irving assures us that they contain much which would elucidate some very Obscure passages of American history but neither he nor Mr. Prescott has made any important addition to this department of useful knowledge. All that is valuable in the writings of these gentlemen might have been gathered from printed books in the libraries of America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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