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P R O PO S A L S,
By J. Campbell, Morgantown, Virg.
For Printing by Subscription,
The Misioryof America,
lh WILLIAM KO*LRTSOXt Jj. i
Principal of the Unive^fity ot Edinburgh, flif
toriogr.iphcr to his Majcfty for Scot land,
and Mi mber of the Royal Academy
of Hiftory at Madrid,
The name of Robertson has long flood in
the very hi ft rank of hdtonans, and perhaps
none of his writings have been more generally
lead, or univerfally admired, th in hip liiftory
of America, So popular has the wo k been in
England,that it ha6 pa fled through no lefs thin
ten editions. Nor is this wonde; tub I)r. Uo.
bertfon’a patient and indefatigable induftry in
refcarch, and his candour and impartiality in
narration, have dcftrvedly fecuied the highelt
degree of credit to all bin ftatements of hiflo
rical t idlB llis flyle, at once perfpicuous and
elegant, eafy and dignified, will always find an
admirer in every reader of t;.fte. The feleflion
t,f the matter comprifed in the lliftory of Arne*
iica, is happily calculated to blend the inofl
agreeable amufement with folid and uleful in
foimation. The difeovery ot a tuw hemitphere
ty Columbus, and the rap d cunqueft of Mi xto
and Peiu by Coitrst and Pi/.arro, are among
the mod extraordinary events recorded in *u
l.hcntic bittory. The hiftory ot the cotuUuft of
the Spaniards towards the natives of America,
exhibits in the ft ongell colours the liort i hie
confcquencrs winch naturally f! >w from avarice
and ambition, fhielded bv religious bigotry, &
tiareftreineel either by public opinion or the
ftiong arm of a juft & enlightened government
Ijr Roneitfon’s maftevly defcriptions of the
cuftoms, manners, locial ftate, and religious
a«d political inftitutions, of the natives of A
merica, is perhaps better calculated then apy
other work in tuftencc to give us correct ideas
of tfce nature aod fituation of man in a favage
ftrte, and of the effects produced by (he inven
tion of the arts and fcienccs, and the improve
ments in focial and political inftitutions—His
defciiption of the foil, climate, and natural
productions of Spanifh America ; o( the fyftem
purfued by Spain towards her colonies, and of
the efhCt.. of that fyftem both on them and on
the mother country; of the prefent ftate of
Icience, religion, agriculture! commerce, ma
nufactures and population, in the different
Spanifh colonies, mutt a< ord amufement and
inftruCtion to every defeription of readers.
The other quarters of the globe have txpe
rienced great and important changes in confe
quence ot the ditcovery ol‘ America. To furmfh
labourers for European planters fettled in the
iflrnds, and in va. ions parts of the continent of
America. Africa has been plundered of its
wretched inhabitants, and rendered ftill more
barbatous and defolate, than while it waa ft
cluded from any intercor.rfe with more polic
ed nations. Tlie gold and fdvtr of America
have furniihed 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 manufactures which
has gradually but cffentiaily ameliorated the
Condition of the great body cf the people in
airnoft every part ot Europe. Events which
have had fuch an extenfive influence upon ml
parts of the globe, cannot fail to be highly in
tirefting. The cuizenB of the United States
ought to he acquainted with the hittory of eve
i y pai t of the great continent which they inha
bit. This is th. age cf revo utions,—*nd it is
no' probable that the foutnern pot of America
will longefcapt its i: fluence, if by any event
that country fhnud be freed from the y< k of
a jealou and illiberal government, its com
merce would open new and va(t fourcei- of
wealth to the tnterptifiug cni/tna of the United
S’ ate*.
Encouraged by tiie liberal pationagc vvhii h
has lately bet.n given in diiTeient pjrte ot the
Union to the repub ic.rtion of valuable hooka,
and believing that the inhabitants of the weft
ern country will not only be difpofrd totneou
rage fo important a bran< h t>t huftnefs, but will
alfo feel a ftrong curiofity to become a< (juaint
ed with the natural and political hiflory of
thole fertile regions, with wtiich, at no did nt
day, they may p ob.b'y m intam an rxtetifi e
ami lucrative commerre, !h* editor propofet ;o
reprint Kobcrtfun'* Hifloiy of Anic ica, flora
the lafk London edition.
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