THE

COMMERCIAL REVIEW

OF THE

SOUTH AND WEST.

CONDUCTED BY

J. D. B. DE BOW,

PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, COMMERCE AND STATISTICS IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, NEW ORLEANS.

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I. FLORIDA.-Early History; Face of Country; Possession by France

and Spain; Present Condition of Florida; the Hammocks-Ever-

glades; Products of Florida-Sugar, Cotton, Rice, Timber, etc.

By E. R. FAIRBANKS, of Florida.

II. MANUFACTURING ADVANTAGES OF THE LOWER OHIO.

By Hon. E. M. HUNTINGTON. 13

III. PUBLIC LANDS ACQUIRED BY TREATY, Etc. - Proceedings

by the authorities of the United States for ascertaining land titles and

claims to land within the former possessions of Great Britain, France

and Spain, subsequent to their occupation by the United States.

By J. W. MONETTE, M. D., author of the History of the Valley of

the Mississippi.

IV. AMERICAN VINES AND WINES.-Production and Manufac-

ture of Wine; Vineyards at the South; Profits of a Scuppernong

Vineyard; Brinkleyville Vineyards, &c.

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By SIDNEY WELLER, M. D., of North Carolina. 29

V. THE COMMERCIAL GROWTH AND GREATNESS OF NEW

YORK.Position of Cities; Origin of New York; Early History of;

Advances, Improvements, Population, Resources, Commerce, Pros-

pects, &c.
T. P. KETTELL, Esq., of New York. 30

VI. ADVANCES OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE, Etc. - Manufac-

ture of Sugar; Steam Plough, etc.; Prepared to be read as an Ad-

dress
By J. P. BENJAMIN, Esq., of New Orleans. 41

VII. THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY.-Introduction to the History of

philosophy,by VICTOR CAUSIN, Professor of Philosophy of the faculty

of Literature of Paris.
By C. C. S. FARRAR, of Louisiana. 58

VIII. CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE NAVY TO SCIENCE AND

COMMERCE.-The Gulf Stream; Gulf Weed; Drift; Icebergs;

North-Pacific Storms; Abstract Log; Nautical Signs.

By Lieut. M. F. MAURY, United States Obseryatory, Washington. C4