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Excerpt from An Account of Discoveries in the West Until 1519: Prepared for the Virginia Historical On the 29th of December 1831, some of the citizens of Virginia formed themselves into a society by the name of "The Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society." The general assembly of the state, by an act of the 10th of March 1834, incorporated the society, and by a resolution of the 6th of February 1835, directed to be presented to it, a copy of the large map of Virginia, and such books and papers belonging to the library fund as the joint committee on the library might designate. A leading object of the society was to collect and preserve books and papers, both in print and manuscript, relating to the history of America, and especially of Virginia; - to make its library a repository of every thing of the kind as far as practicably. 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.