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P R O PO .9 A I.
3*y J. Campbell, Morgantown, Vug.
I or Printing nv Suusckiption,
The History of Americ a,
lii HI L LI AM ROBERTSON D D.
Principal of tht Univerfity of Edinburgh, llif
froriographcr to his Majefty for Scotland,
aud Mimbcr of the- Royal Academy
of iiiAory at Madrid,
The name of Robertson has long Rood in
the very a.ft ranic 01 hiitorians, and perhaps
none ot his writu g. have been more generally
read, or ur.iverfahy admiied th .n his II. It or >
ot Ameiica. So popular has the work been m
Englaud,that it has palTh-d through no hfs th:.n
teu editions. Moi is this wondei tu! I)r. Ho.
beitfon’ti patient and indeiatigab.e in tuit y in i
reicarch, and liis candour and imj arti .iity in j
narration, have defervediy ficmed th highefl
dcgite of credit to ah his ft iieinenU of hifto- ,
rie..l Lifts Hu ltyle, at once perfpi uou~ and !
elegant, eafy ar.d dignified, will Iwiys find an I
adinner in every reader of nfte The feleftion
of the matter comprilVd in the Hiftory ot Am - 1
rica, is happ: y ca'cuiated to i An : the mod j
agreeable amufement with folid and u cful in
four. tion. I lie tifcovciyot a n. w. hemisphere ]
by Columbus, and the rap'd cut qtuft or M, xico
and Pei u by Cot tt i and P za ro, ate among
the moil extrao.dinary events tceordtd in ,u
thenuc hilHuy. Tile ! iltory of the c<.r.duft id
Ujc Spaniard i.o ve.riic uic natives or .. iiv i jc »
exh.biti in the ftrcngtft col urs the horriolc
corft'equencts which n .'ur .11y li. \v from avarice
end ambition, flue’ led by icligiotis ••'potty, &
unreft: ained either by puli! : oph.ii n or the
ft tong arm of a juft U c. v.' t/.u-.i government
Dr Koucrtfon - ir...ftc ’.y defer:ptions of tlie
cullomt, manners, foci I /fate, and religious
and political in/litutions, of the natives of A
r.urica, is perhaps better calculated than any
oiiitr wovlr in exitfence to give us corn ft ideas
of the nature and fiuittion eft man in a lavage
fl e, and t.f the ctfedts produced by tbeinven
ti :i of the arts ana lcienccs, and the imp: re .
m; " » in facial an l political inditution — 1 i!s i
delciiption cf he foil, climate, and it at ui al I
produftions of Spanilh America ; ot the b. Item
ptlifued by Sp*:n towards her colonies, and r.f
the tl'tif, ot that fvftem both t.n them and or.
the mother country; of the prcfenl date of
fcience, rehpion, apriciilture, commerce ma
rufactures an 1 population, in the diffiimt
Span.fli colonies, muft a ord amultment and
inftrudtiorf to every defeription of reader .
The other quitters of the globe have ixpe
ricr.ce i preat ar 1 important changes in cor.l -
qaen .e ot the di! :o'.-cry of Anurtca To fun fh
labourersf.ir li ropeau planters fettled in the
tfiands, and in v i, 1-ns pn t, ol the continent (’f
America, A trie-t lias be n p'undered of its
w e h 1 ini i ants, and rendered ftill more
bar batons and defolate, th.n whi'e it war fe
cluded front any intercour e wi*b rr ire poiiHt
cd natic i s. I e p i : nd (i’vtr <>t / merica
lisve tu'n lhcd European v. \ the no ins of
an exterd'f.'C comroeu w.*h A in-' tog, the?
with the other pro uCtion r.‘ tlv rtw Woild.
have hid a powetful ak~t v in pr dtich g *h <t
mcreafe o. r.-wmere »n n: m <‘'iirt,i v. ■ ij,
his pradua y bof . fl- -. y or- rated the
sc'Qudilioi* cf live great tody ot ih: pcopls in
aim oil cvr y part of Europe. Events which |
' li-ve ha ’ fuch .in extenfive influence u< on all j
j parts of the globe, cannot fail to bo highly in
terfiling. 'I nc citizens of the Uni ed States ]
' ought to be acquainted with the hift<»ry ofevi- i
ry pa11 of the neat continent which they inha j
hit. This i* the age of rcvo'utionn,—and it is
not probable that the fouthern pirt of America
will long efcape itsitflnence. If by any event
that counti y (heu'd be freed from the yoke of
i jealou and illiberal government, its com'
nierce would op n new and vail fources cf
wealth to the enterprihng citizens of the United
S1 atea.
Encouraged by the libera! patronage which
has lately been given indifferent puts of the
Union to the repub'ication .1 valuabl bo« ke.
and believing that the inhabit u: s of the well"
e;n country wi 1 not only bcdlfpofed totneou
rage fo important a bran eh ol hu'iiicls, but will
all'o ic.l a 11 iong curiofs y to become acquaint- I
ed with the natural ar.d political hiltory of I
thofe fertile regions, with which, at no d-ilant
day, 'h.y :ruy p ob bly maintain an ixtcnfivc
and lucrative commerce, tne editor propolis o
rcorir.t Robertfon’r 11 dory of America, from
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