A history of the American nation . The Mercator Map of 1541 ^ 16 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION. :US-1531 A Map of 1531, Sketched in Outline dance.^ To govern such an empire her character and her con-dition fitted her. We now look back upon the history ofSpanish colonization and see the mistakes in her system andher spirit; her colonies were too often harshly governed; theywere outlying dependencies, furnishing the ruling land withtreasure and with trade; but withal Spain transferred toAmerica European law and religion, and the mark of her handwull ever be seen in the states of Central an
A history of the American nation . The Mercator Map of 1541 ^ 16 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION. :US-1531 A Map of 1531, Sketched in Outline dance.^ To govern such an empire her character and her con-dition fitted her. We now look back upon the history ofSpanish colonization and see the mistakes in her system andher spirit; her colonies were too often harshly governed; theywere outlying dependencies, furnishing the ruling land withtreasure and with trade; but withal Spain transferred toAmerica European law and religion, and the mark of her handwull ever be seen in the states of Central and South America.^ recently another map (also by IMercator) has been discovered that wasmade three years earher. Mercator was the wisest geographer of the time,and showed a truly wonderful power of interpreting the reports of travel-ers and explorers and of divining the truth. The map as here given followsa sketch made by Mr. Winsor himself, and reproduced in his Narrativeand Critical History of America, vol. ii, p. 177 (by permission of the pub-lishers, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.). The orig
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