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The History of America,
hr WILLIAM ROBkRTa(Ji\ J). r.
Principal of the Univeifity of Edinl ugh, llif
torrugr.ipher to his M jef\y lor Scotland,
and Member of the Royal Academy
of Hiftory at Madrid,
The name of Robrrtsqn has Iona; flood in
the very liiIt rami of hiltonans, and perhaps
rone of his writings have been more generally
read, or univerfaliy admiicd, than his Hiftory
of America. So popular has the woik been in
England,that it has palled through no h fs than
ten editions. Nor is this wonderful. Dr. Ro.
Tiertfon’a patient and indefatigable in-.initry in
refcarch, and his candour and impartiality in
narration, have dcfervedly ftcuted the higheft
degree of credit to all his ftitemcnls of hifto
rical f-'dls Ili* ftyle, at cnce perfpicuous and
e'egant, cafy and dignified, will always find an
admirer in evet y reader of tafle ThtfelnMion
of the matter computed in the liilory of Arne»
rica, is happily calculated to blend the molt
agreeable antuferrunt with folid and ufcful in
fornmtion. The difeovery of a new lumilphert
by Columbus, and the rap d Cwr.q reft of Mexico
and Pem by Co; tt? and Piz.irto, are amo lg
the moll extraordinary vents recorded in au
thentic hi! o y. The hiftory of the conduct of
the Spaniards towards the natives of America,
exhibits in the ftrongtil colours the humble
con ft quences v bich naturally lft;vv from avarict
and ambition, fhielded by religious bigotry, h
unreftr-uned either by public opinion or the
ftrong arm of a juft 6c enigh'entd government.
Dr Robeitfon’s m .ftcrly deferiptions of the
euftoms, r%nners, focial Hate, anti religious
a«d political inftitutiona, of the native of A
merirn, is perhaps better calculated thm any
*iMur work m esiUencc to give t* tsuitil ideas
of the nature and fituation of man in a favage
(late, and of ttie effects produced by theinven*
tion of the ai ts and fctenccs, and the improve
ments in focial and political inltitutions—His
defciiption or the foil, climate, and natural
productions of Spaniih America ; ot the fyfiem
purfued by Sptin towards her colonies, and of
the effcCts of that fyitem both on tiiem and on
the mother country; of the prefeut ftate ot
fcience, religion, agriculture* commerce, ma
nufactures ami population, in the different
Spanifh colonies, mult atiord amutement and
inftruCtion to every description of readers*
The other quotes of the globe have txpe
rienced great and important changes in confe
quence ot the difeovery of America. To tuindh
laborers for European planters fettled in the
'll rnds, and in various parts of the cont.nent of
America, Africa has been plundered of its
wretched inhabitants, and rendered (till more
barbarous and dcfolate, than while it was ft
chided from ar;y intercourie with more polith
ed nations. The gold and lilvtr of America
have furnillied Europeans with the means of
an extenfive commerce with Alia, and together
with the other productions of the new world,
have had a powerful agency in producing that
increafe of commerce and msnutaCturea which
has gradur'ly but elfentirlly ameliorated tnc
Condition ot the great body of the people in
almost tvety part of Europe. Events which
have bad fuch an extenfive inlluer.ee upon all
parts o. the globe, cannot fail to be highly in.
tnelting. The citizens of the Uni’ed State*
ought to i r acquainted with the hiftory of eve
ry part of the great continent which they inha
bit. This is tnc age of revo utions,—and it is
no* probable 'hat the Tout hi 1n p;rt of America
will longefcape its i: fluence. If by any event
that country llv u!d be freed from the ye ke of
a jealour and illiberal government, its com
merce would open new and vaft (burces of
wialth to tt.e entit prihnj citizens of the United
States.
tuLuiui^cu ny inc notr-'i wniui
has lately been given in different pirts of the
Union to the rrpub’ication of valuable books,
and believing that the inhabitants of the weft"
ern country will not only be dilpofed to tncou
rape P> important a branch o» bufinefs, t ut will
alfo feel a flrong curichly to become acquaint
ed with the natural and political hiftory of
ihofe fertile regions, with which, at no did ant
day, they may p ob^bly maintain an ixter five
and lucrative commerce, the editor propofes <o
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