[4] In the _Charleston City Gazette or Daily Advertiser_ of February 2, 1790, appeared "A Characteristic Sketch of the Long Island Dutch. From The Rising Empire: a Poem." Two days later the New York _Daily Advertiser_ published "A View of Rhode Island. [Extracted from a new Poem, entitled The Rising Empire, not yet published.]" That Freneau for a time was actively engaged upon this projected volume is evident from the poems on the states which appeared in the _Daily Advertiser_, chiefly during the month of March, 1790. The last of these poems, "A Descriptive Sketch of Virginia," appeared June 11, 1790. On June 25 Freneau issued proposals for a new volume of poems, presumably to bear the title "The Rising Empire," but the volume was never published. Many of the pieces that undoubtedly would have gone to make up the book appeared in the _Daily Advertiser_. Of those that came directly under the title (and they are doubtless but a fragment of what the poet intended to write) all but "A View of Rhode Island" appeared in a greatly changed form in the poet's later volumes. I have followed in each case the edition of 1809. [5] In the _Daily Advertiser_ of March 13, 1790, this poem bore the title "Philosophical Sketch of America." [6] Text from the New York _Daily Advertiser_ of February 4, 1790. [7] In the original version published in the _Daily Advertiser_, May 10, 1790, this bore the title "Description of Connecticut." [8] Followed in the original version by the line: "Sacred to him, that taught them to be keen;" [9] The fourteen lines following this are not in the original version. [10] In the edition of 1795 this reads "Greenfield's reverend son," alluding to Dr. Dwight. [11] In the index to the 1809 edition the title was "Lines on the old patriotic state, Massachusetts." [12] "All, all too weak to effect the vast design That swell'd, poor GAGE, that puny heart of thine, That urg'd BURGOYNE to slight his _Celia's_ charms, The brother HOWES to furbish up their arms And modern PERCIES lose their wonted sleep To conquer countries, that they could--not keep." --Original version in the _Daily Advertiser_, March 29, 1790. [13] The original title of this poem was "A Characteristic Sketch of the Long Island Dutch." [14] The original version in the _Daily Advertiser_ began at this point. [15] The earliest version, as it appeared in the _Daily Advertiser_, March 17, 1790, had the following in place of the last six lines: