Prose works : narratives of a colonial Virginian edited by Louis B. Wright

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byrd, William, 1674-1744.

Contributor:

Wright, Louis B. (Louis Booker), 1899-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virginia--Boundaries--North Carolina.

Virginia.

North Carolina--Boundaries--Virginia.

North Carolina.

Virginia--Description and travel.

North Carolina--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

vii, 438 p. : ill., facsims., maps, port. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press, of Harvard University Press, 1966.

Contents:

Introduction : William Byrd as a man of letters

The secret history of the line

The history of the dividing line

A porgress to the mines

A journey to the land of Eden.

Notes:

First published in 1841 under title: The Westover manuscripts.