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Excerpt from Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 1 of 8 It was in 1833 that Colonel Thomas Aspin wall, of Boston, who was for thirty-eight years the American consul at London, printed at Paris a catalogue of his collection of Americana, where seven hundred and seventy-one lots in cluded, beside much that was ordinarily useful, a great number of the rarest of books on Ameri can history. Iiarrisse has called Colonel Aspin wall, not without justice, a bibliophile of great tact and activity. All but the rarest part of his collection was subsequently burned in 1863, when it had passed into the hands of Mr. Sam uel L. M. Barlow,6 of New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.