THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. LII.

BOSTON:

JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY,

134 WASHINGTON STREET.

1841.

OF

No. CX.

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I. NATIONAL DEFENCE

1. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmit-

ting a System of National Defence.

2. Annual Report of the Board of Visitors of

the United States Military Academy.

II. THE COTTON MANUFACTURE

1. A History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great

Britain, with a notice of its Early History in the

East, and in all Quarters of the Globe. By ED-

WARD BAINES, Jun., Esq.

2. Memoir of Samuel Slater, the Father of

American Manufactures; with Remarks on the

Moral Influence of Manufactories in the United

States. By GEORGE S. WHIte.

III. Two YEARS BEFORE THE MAST

Two Years Before the Mast.

rative of Life at Sea.

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A Personal Nar-

IV. BANCROFT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

History of the United States, from the Discov-

ery of the American Continent. By GEORGE

BANCROFT. Vol. III.

V. HITCHCOCK'S ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY

Elementary Geology. By EDWARD HITCH-

COCK, Professor of Chemistry and Natural History

in Amherst College, and Geologist to the State of

Massachusetts.

VI. CONGRESSIONAL ELOQUENCE

1. Speech of Mr. H. S. LEGARÉ, of South Car-

olina, on the Bill Imposing Additional Duties as

Depositaries, in certain Cases, on Public Officers ;

delivered in the House of Representatives of the

United States, October, 1837.

2. Speech of Mr. WISE, of Virginia, on the Sub-

ject of the Late Defalcations, delivered in the

House of Representatives, Dec. 21st, 1838.

3. Speech of Mr. DUNCAN, of Ohio, in the

House of Representatives, April 10th, 1840, on the

Bill making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplo-

matic Expenses of the Government, for the Year

1840.

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