Sorry to say that this 750-page volume was beyond me. I stumbled at the end of part 1, on page 100, after enduring "a brief relation of the Maryland Palatinate", which was not so brief after all. This reminds me of reading Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, when I stumbled after 600 of a total of 700 pages.
In the meantime I finished several other worthy books - fiction and non-fiction - starting with Sophie's Choice, which I wanted to include in these 10 books for 2007 list anyway, but then chose The Sot-Weed Factor which had been lying dormant in the book shelf for too long to neglect it any longer.