Coxe, Daniel:

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A DESCRIPTION OF THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF CAROLANA, BY THE SPANIARDS CALL'D FLORIDA, AND BY THE FRENCH LA LOUISIANE. AS ALSO OF THE GREAT AND FAMOUS RIVER MESCHACEBE OR MISSISSIPPI, THE FIVE VAST ... The third issue of this important work, first published in 1722, differing from the first issue only by the substitution of a new titlepage to make the tract appear more current. One of the first works in English to extensively describe the Southeast. Coxe, who claimed grants of much of the South, sought to arouse British concern over the area's occupation by the French. Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana are described. The elder Daniel Coxe was physician to Charles II and Queen Anne; his son inherited his claims to grants in the South and produced this book. The text, based on memoirs of trappers and explorers, contains much information published for the first time and is credited with containing the first published proposal of a political confederation of the North American colonies. This copy without the large folding map, as is often the case.

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