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P RO PO S A L S,
13y J. Campbell, Morgantown, Virg.
For Printing bv Subscription,
The History of America,
By H'IlUAM HUBhKTbON, 1). 1J.
Principal ol the Univc lity of Edinburgh, Hif
toriogr.ipher to his Majelty for Scotland,
and Member of the Royal Academy
of Hiftoiy at Madrid,
The name of Robertson has long flood in
the very fuft ranlc of hiftorians, and perhaps
none of his writings have been more generally
iead, or univerfally admired, than his Hiftory
of America. So popular ha3 the work been in
£ngland,that it has puffed through no left than
ten editions. Nor is this wonderful Dr. Ro.
bettfon's patient and indefatigable induft y in
reftarch, and his candour and impartiality in
narration, have dcfeivediy fecuied the hip heft
degree of credit to all his ftatemen‘6 of hiflo
rica! fadts His ftyle, at once perfpicuous and
elegant, tafy ai d dignified, wiii always find an
admirer in every reader of tafle. The felerftion
of the matter comprifed in the Hiftory of Ame*
rica, is happily calculated to blend the mofl
agreeable amufement with folid and ufeftil in
formation. The difeovery of a new her/ llphtre
by Cobjmbus. and the rap'd conqutfl ol Mi xico
and Peru by Cortez and Pizarro, are among
the mofl extraordinary events recorded in au
thentic hiftory. The hiftory of the conduct of
the Spaniards towards the natives of Amt rica,
exh bits in the flrongtft coir urs the horrible
confiquences which naturally flow from avarice
and ambition, fbielded by religious bigotry, ft
uurt-ftrained either by public opinion or the
flrong arm of a juft ft enlightened government.
Dr Rohertfon’s matterly deferiptions of the
cuftoms, manners, focial ftate, and religious
and political inftitutions, of the natives of A
merica, is perhaps better calculated than ary
other work in otittence to give us c»rrt& ideas
of the nature and fituation of man in a favape
ftate, and of the effects produced by the inven
tion of the arts and lcieucea, and the improve
ments in focial and political inftitutions—His
defciiption of the foil, climate, and natural
productions of Spanith America; ot the fyftem
purfued by Spain towards her colonies, and of
the effects of that fyftem both on them and on
the mother country; of the prefent ftate ot
fcience, religion, agriculture) commerce, ma
nufactures and population, in the different
Spanith colonies, muft aflord nmufement and
inftrudioo to every defciiption of reader?.
The other quaiters of the globe nave expe
rienced great and important changes in coufe
quence of the difeovery of America. To furnilh
labourers for European planters fettled in the
iflands, and in varions parts of the cont.nent ot
America, Africa has been plundered of its
wretched inhabitants, and rcndeied ftill more
barbatous and delolate, than while it was ft
eluded from any intercourfe with more poiilh
ed nations. The gold and filver of America
have furmftied Europeans with the meai.g of
an extenlive commeice with Aha, and together
with the other productions ot the new world,
have had a powerful agtncy in producing that
increafe of commerce and manufactures which
has gradually but efifcntially ameliorated the
condition of the great body ot the people in
almoft every part of Europe. Events which
have had fuch an exttnfive influence upon all
parts of the globe, cannot fail to be highly in
terefting. The citizens of the United Staten
ought to be aequain td with the hittory of eve
ry p3rt of the great continent which they inha
bit. This is the age of revo utione,—and it is
not probable that the fouthern p irt of America
will longefcape its i> fluence. If I y any event
that country flhould be freed from the yt.k> of
a jealou? and illiberal government, its com
merce would open new and vaft fonrees of
wealth to the tnterpriling citizens of the United
States.
Encouraged hv the liberal pationagc which
has lately been given in different pirts of the
Union to the repubiication of valuable books,
and believing that the inhabitants of the weft"
ern country will not only be difpofed to encou
rage fo important a hr inch ot bufintfe, but will
I alfo feel a flrong curiofity to become ? .quaint
I ed with the natural and political hiftory of
thole fertile regions, with which, at no did ant
day, they rruy prohibly maintain an txtrrfive
and lucrative commerce, the editor propofes to
reprint Kobertfon’a Usftory of Ameiic3, from
the iaft London edition.
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