Red Eric.--The discovery of the Indies; Christopher Columbus.--The destruction of Tenochtitlan; Cortez and Montezuma.--The fountain of eternal youth; Juan Ponce de Leon.--De Sota and the New world.--Sir Walter Raleigh.--Voyage of the "Mayflower."--The founding of Quebec; Samuel de Champlain.--The Maypole at Merrymount; Thomas Morton.--Cotton Mather's Wonders of the invisible world: I. Enchantments encountered. II. The trial of Bridget Bishop at Salem, The trail of Susanna Martin. III. Curiosities.--Père Sebastian Rasies.--The discovery of Kentucky; Daniel Boone.--George Washington.--Poor Richard; Benjamin Franklin.--Battle between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis; John Paul Jones.--Jacataqua.--The virtue of history; Aaron Burr.--Advent of the slaves.--Edgar Allan Poe.--Abraham Lincoln.
