The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 36]

,,ANA UTHORITr OF THE HIGHEST IMP OR TANCE" —Winsor

THE
PRESENT STATE
OF THE
EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS
ON THE

M I S S I S I P P 1i
W IT H
A GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION of that RIVER.

ILLUSTRATED BY
P L A N S AND D R A U G H T S.
By Captain PHILIP PITTMAN.
L 0 N D 0 N.
LONDON,
Printed for J. NoUR E, Bookfeller to Hts MAJESTY.
MDCCLXX.

Edited with Introduction, Notes, and Index, by
FRANK HEYWOOD HODDER
PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TrHIS exceedingly rare work was issued in London, in 1770, and
has been so much in demand by historical students and collectors
of Americana that even imperfect copies of the original are now almost
impossible to obtain at any price. Our text is from a perfect copy of
the original with all the folding maps and plans carefully reproduced.

*Only two copies have been offered for sale during the past five years; one copy sold
at $95.00, and the other is now offered by a reliable firm of booksellers at $105.00.