Excerpt from History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States: With a Catalogue of the Publications of the Census Year Gazettes were also printed in both Mexico and Peru at a very early date; but whether anterior to the first New England newspapers is a matter of some doubt, although the probabilities favor that view. Mum Several authorities state that they existed before the close of the seventeenth century. Dr pm Robertson thus describes the contents of the Gazette de Mexico for the years 1728, 1729, and 1730, printed in quarto. 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.