The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860. VariousЧитать онлайн книгу.
a witness to this tantalizing deception, and, with the Librarian, read enough to show the date and character of the perishing record.
Through this accident, the Council Journals of a most interesting period, embracing several years between 1666 and 1692, were irretrievably lost. Others sustained less damage, and were partially preserved. Some few survived in good condition.
Our Maryland historians have had frequent occasion to complain of the deficiency of material for the illustration of several epochs in the Provincial existence, owing to the loss of official records. No research has supplied the means of describing the public events of these intervals, beyond some few inferences, which are only sufficient to show that these silent periods were marked by incidents of important interest. The most striking of these privations occurs towards the end of the seventeenth century,–precisely that period to which the crumbling folios had reference.
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