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Tiie History of America,
Br WILLIAM ROatRTSOX, D. D.
Principil ot the Univeifsty of Edinburgh, Iiif
toriographer to his M jetty for Scotland,
and Member of the Royal Academy
of Ilillory at Madrid,
The name of Roblp.ts.cv iiae long flood in
'.he very h ft rmte of hiftorian?, and perhaps
none of hi* writings have been more generally '
read, or u- iveilaliy .1 '.mired, than his litttory !
of America. So popular has the work been in :
.England,that it has pafied 11.rough no I ft? than i
ten editions. Nor is this wonderful Dr. Ro. j
bertfon’s patient and indefatigable in.iultry in
relearch, and his candour and inapa ti dity in
narration, have dcfervedly fecuied th hi^hett j
degree of ere 'it to all hi.* tti'e;n-"ts ot hillo
ricai fatfls- lbs tlyle, atorce Derfpicuous ini
elegant, tafy aid dignified, will always find an
a mirer in every reader of tafte The fcltflio-.
of the matter comprifed it t .t II: lory of Anae»
ica, irt happily calculated to blend, tht moft
n rerablc amufement with folid and ulefu in
f > tuition. The difeovety of a nt w hc-miiphtrc
by Columbu* and the rap:<« c<>: q .eft of M x -o
and E j hy C ; tiz and P zarro, are atr. >ne
the molt <\tr .or ‘ m-y event recorded >n .11
fhentic h;ft< y. The t.itb ry of the condutf (. j
th." Spaniards t v-wds th n. ivim of Atn.rica, I
exhibitr- it; the It^ongtft t 'ns the hor*i'le
< 1 which na w from avari
and ambition, ItriM.-d by k 11* bigot' y. &
tnreftruned eitlier hy p > ■ opinion or hr
Ptong arm of a juft&«-it ' , ,*• ( werrirr nt
Dr Rohertfon’s m.dte; !y‘del 1 profit of the
ctiflom*. m meif, 1 am ft -v, „n i r<dig oils
a id political infti’Utioti", ot Ihr I . iivm ot A
merica, i? perhap he .erca ulated 1 h > r. ary
other work in cat utucc to giv. ua conc-l idea*
I of the nature and fi tuat ion of man in a ravage
! ftate, and ot the effects produced by the invert*
j tion of the arts and lciences, and the improve
j ments in locia! and political iuilitution — U,s
* Jefciiption of the foil, climate, and natural
productions of Spanifh America ; ot the fyftem
purfueel by Sp tin tovvardf her colonies, and of
the cffeCt* ot that 1)Item both on them and on
the mother countiy; of the prefeut date of
fcience, religion, agriculture! commerce, ma
nufactures and population, in the different
Sp toiill colonies, mult a oret amutemenl and
in ft ruCtion to every defeription of readers.
The other q inters of the globe have txpe
rienced grea/ and important changes in confe
quence ot the tulcovery ot America. To turnifh
Irtboa: era fot European planters fettled in the
fi inds, and in various pirts of the continent of
America, Africa has been plundered of its
wretched inhabitants,, and reniU e r hill more
barbatous and defolate, th in while it was lc
ciuded from any intercourfe vim more polilli*
ed nations. I .e gold and liivcr of America ;
have furti fired Europeans with the mear s of
an extenlivc commerce with Alia, and together
with the other productions of the new world,
have had a powerful agency in prc.‘u ing that
increafe of v umnerce and in .nut i.uixa which
has gradually hut effentird’y -.me iorated the
Condition ol (lie great bo 'y ot ihe people in
almofl every past o. Eu> p- Eve is which
have had inch an ektenlivc influcn e upon ai'
parts of the globe, cannot ful to ue highly in
tciefting. 1 lie utiy.ens of thr Uni ed S arts
ought to lie acquain ed w. h the h ftory of > -
iy p?*t. ot the gteat contu.cn: whi.h they mh.t
bit. t h’3 is th.- age or rev,) utions,—and it ib
not pro’,able that the fouthtrn p rt ot *.mtrica
will longefcape i\- i fi tence. If ! y my event
that country fhouid be freed fr< m the y k of
a jealoii' and iilil>cr:rl governrrt't un com*
me. ee would open new an I valt foil■ ct- of
wealth tot c entcrpritiiig cibgci.s of the United
State?.
Encouraged by the liberal pi! onag< wH !i
halately b-en given in dithrvnt pot- ol the
Union to the republicitior. «,t v luabl h ks '
and hc’ieving that the inha , ; ,r-s of the w». it
em country w:!I not only he difpofed totnrou 1
rage fo important a branch ot huh .. Is. hut will j
alio feel a urong curit fry to bee me acquaint ,
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thofe fritile regions, w h which, at no .11 -mf 1
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and lucrai e com oerre, »h-editor propofe o
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