| General Note | Originally issued in numbers: v. 1, Jan. 1747-May 1749; v. 2. April 1750-Aug.(?) 1752, but not printed in the "American magazine" as first announced by the publisher; left unfinished at the author's death in October 1752.
To v. 2 of this copy is prefixed the t.p. of "No. 1 ... Vol. II" with imprint "Boston: Printed and Sold by Daniel Fowle in Queen-Street; where may be had the first Volume bound or stitch'd. Also some odd Numbers to compleat imperfect Setts 1750." There are many references in v.2 to the year 1752 (cf. pages 394, 395, 399, 412, etc.).
The three maps described in the Introduction to v. 2, p. 20-21 ("Originals composed and lately printed in the several countries") are wanting in this copy and in all L.C. copies of different editions of the "Summary"; the "Map of the Dominions of New-England", and that of "New-York, the Jersies and Pensylvania, published 1749, by Mr. Evans in Pensylvania", are found separately in the map collection of the Library of Congress .
Sections concerning North-Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia , noted in "The author to the reader", p. ii, v. 1, as part of "Vol. II, part 1" are no found in this work. The second volume ends at p. 416 (end of section xvi, Virgina); in a re-issue [1758?] of v. 2, with t.p. "Boston ... 1753" prefixed , pages 417-440 were added ("in order to render this work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammer, printed in London, 1757").
"A digression concerning the smallpox", v. 2, p. 392-414.
Table of contents of v. 2 wanting.
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