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tfUTHE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL REGISTER.call a history, in the full and proper sense of that term, or wemight perhaps find some fault with it, especially on the score ofits style. But it is simply a book of " Annals," containing briefnotices of events in the early and subsequent history of ourState, to the close of our revolutionary war, arranged in chronologicalorder, and jotted down, as it were, at the time of theiroccurrence, without comments or reflections ;— and, viewed inthis light, we think it has much merit. It is, in fact, full of matter,and gives us a good deal of useful and agreeable information—particularly of an antiquarian character—evincing considerablereading and research, with no small degree of personalobservation ; and fairly entitles its author to his proper praise.There is an Appendix to the work, containing a Memoir ofthe Battle of Point Pleasant, by the late Samuel Campbell, M. D.(an uncle of the author,) which was left in manuscript amonghis papers, and communicated by his son to Mr. C. who has,very properly, published it along with his own work. This is writtenin a more free and flowing vein, and is highly interesting.We should take pleasure in repeating this article here—as itseems to belong to us—but we have no room for it at present.We must, however, give our readers the following copy of a manuscriptletter from the late Colonel Andrew Lewis, of Montgomerycounty, to the author of the Memoir, (taken from the originalin Mr. C.'s possession,) which though plainly written, containsperhaps a still more authentic account of the same affair, ismuch shorter, and comes more immediately within the scope ofour work. It is as followsA Letter from the late Colonel Andrew Lewis, of Montgomery, tothe late Samuel Campbell, M. D., of Rockbridge, concerningthe Battle of Point Pleasant."Sir, your letter of the 27th March, I received a few daysaoro. The extract you mention did not come to hand, which Iam sorry for. The whole proceeding relative to the campaign of1774 was familiar to me some years past, but no doubt some of