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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850. 255 words

O'Callaghan's errors," nor the " errors " of any other person connected with this work -- for the names abovementioned were actually set up by the printer from the original lists, and are spelt as found in those old records. We would add that no lists of 1683 have been published. We presume that of 1689 is the one referred to.

WILLIAMSON'S DESCRIPTION OF THE GENESEE COUNTRY. Extract of a Letter from George Brinley, Junr., to T. Roraeyn Beck, Esqr., LL. D., dated Hartford, April 22, 1850: " I perceive that in Vol. 2, of Documentary History of New

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York, Williamson's ' Description of the Genesee Country,' is reprinted from the second edition without any notice being made of the first edition (4to., Albany, 1798.) Tliis contains two maps and a very good plate by Fairman, which I wish had been copied. It, the first edition, contained but five letters, the second, eight letters; those numbered 1 to 5 are substantially the same as in the first edition, but are in many instances abbreviated and otherwise altered."

%• The first Edition of V/illiamson's Pamphlet, above described (" Albany, printed by Loring Andrews & Co., 1798,") has since been obtained for the State Lib. It has however, but one Map -- that of Ontario and Steuben Co's. It lacks the second iMap and Plate. Eb.

INDIAN NAME OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

Governor Pownall states, in his Administration of the Colonies, (ed. 1768 and 1774, p. 267,) that the Indian name of the above Lake is