LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.

Hon. WILLIAM L. WILSON, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Fifty-third Congress.

Hon. J. R. SOLEY, formerly a.s.sistant Secretary of the Navy.

EDWARD ATKINSON, Ll. D., Ph. D.

Col. T. A. DODGE, U. S. A.

Col. GEORGE E. WARING, Jr.

J. B. McMASTER, Professor of History in the University of Pennsylvania.

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, LL. D.

Major J. W. POWELL, Director of the U. S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Ethnology.

WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D., U. S. Commissioner of Education.

LYMAN ABBOTT, D. D.

H. H. BANCROFT, author of "Native Races of the Pacific Coast."

HARRY PRATT JUDSON, Head Dean of the Colleges, University of Chicago.

Judge THOMAS M. COOLEY, formerly Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

D. A. SARGENT, M. D., Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY.

A. E. KENNELLY, a.s.sistant to Thomas A. Edison.

D. C. GILMAN, LL. D., President of Johns Hopkins University.

H. G. PROUT, Editor of the Railroad Gazette.

F. D. MILLET, formerly Vice-President of the National Academy of Design.

F. W. TAUSSIG, Professor of Political Economy in Harvard University.

HENRY VAN BRUNT.

H. P. FAIRFIELD.

SAMUEL W. ABBOTT, M. D., Secretary of the State Board of Health, Ma.s.sachusetts.

N. S. SHALER.

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[Transcriber's notes:

Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained.

An entry in the index for the "Northwest pa.s.sage" has been left out, being unreadable.

Superscripts are enclosed in { }.

In the sentence "Those Adventurers & Planters by Vertue .... ", there is a tilde on the last "c" of "Incorporacon"; and in the sentence "In this Provynce soe as they might ...", there is a tilde on the "c" of "toleracon".]