Excerpt from The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, 1843, Vol. 13 It would be an interesting task, were it permitted by our space, toodescribe at length the vast improvement, moral, social, and political, of which these Islands have been the scene, under the influences of Christianity and com merce, within the period of scarcely half a century. Many impressive de tails ou this subject will be found in the recent annual reports of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, as also spread throu h the numbers of the Missionary orald. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.