Modern history: or The present state of all nations [electronic resource] : Describing their respective situations, persons, habits, buildings, manners, laws and customs, religion and policy, arts and sciences, trades, manufactures and husbandry, plants, animals and minerals. Vol. XXVI. Being the fifth volume of America, continues the description of Virginia, and contains the present state of, I. Maryland. II. New-England. III. Nova Scotia and Acadie. IV. New-Britain.

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