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                              GREAT EVENTS

                                   IN

                              THE HISTORY

                                   OF

                        NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA;

                            FROM THE ALLEGED

                      DISCOVERY OF THE CONTINENT,

                 BY THE NORTHMEN, IN THE TENTH CENTURY,

                                   TO

                           THE PRESENT TIME;

        WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EMINENT MEN CONNECTED WITH
                           AMERICAN HISTORY.

                        BY CHARLES A. GOODRICH,

    AUTHOR OF "UNITED STATES' HISTORY," "LIVES OF THE SIGNERS OF THE