. The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies. . erica. That favageand fimple ftate, which was known only in our continent by the fanci-ful descriptions of poets, actually exifted in the other. Man, in theNew World, appeared under the rudeSt form in which we can con-ceive him to fubfift: he was not only a ftranger to the refinements inpolicy and arts, but the Mexicans and Peruvians excepted, almoft un-acquainted
. The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies. . erica. That favageand fimple ftate, which was known only in our continent by the fanci-ful descriptions of poets, actually exifted in the other. Man, in theNew World, appeared under the rudeSt form in which we can con-ceive him to fubfift: he was not only a ftranger to the refinements inpolicy and arts, but the Mexicans and Peruvians excepted, almoft un-acquainted with property; he was in the firft ftage of his being. Tofollow him in his progrefs, as he gradually advances from this infantftate of civil life to its maturity; to bbferve at each period how thefaculties of his understanding unfold ; to attend to the efforts of his ac-tive powers ; to Avatch the motions of the affections as they arife inhis heart, and mark whither they tend, and with what ardour theyare excited, are objects of which the writers of ancient Greece andRome had but an imperfect view, but which are fully prefented to thehistorian of America, and will form not the leaft interesting part of thefollowing work. THE. THE HISTORY O F AMERICA. BOOK I. The Discovery of America, and the Conquest of the two greatEmpires of Mexico and Peru, by the Spaniards* C H A F. I. 7be Progrefs of Commerce and Navigation, from the earliejl Accounts, to the Difcoiiery of the New World, IN order to prepare the mind of the reader for the various fcenes that unfold BOOK r;themfelves in the following hiftory, it will be necefTary to give fome accountof the progrefs of navigation, prior to the difcovery of America; and asthat event was followed by a fignal revolution in the commercial world, it willalfo be fatisfa&ory to trace the progrefs of commerce to the fame memorable great body of water which every where furrounds the earth, and fofrequently interfects it, to the eye of untut
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