British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . ick William the Fourth, King of Prussia,with feelings of enthusiasm. And the author contin-ues: If, in the following pages, your Majesty shouldrecognize Your own portraiture in that of Hiram theGreat, it is such as truth and history have designed andcoloured;—fawning flattery and false adulation have notadded even a thought to embellish, where Patriotism hasso nobly consolidated! Then came the question of the second volume! Its dedication is
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . ick William the Fourth, King of Prussia,with feelings of enthusiasm. And the author contin-ues: If, in the following pages, your Majesty shouldrecognize Your own portraiture in that of Hiram theGreat, it is such as truth and history have designed andcoloured;—fawning flattery and false adulation have notadded even a thought to embellish, where Patriotism hasso nobly consolidated! Then came the question of the second volume! Its dedication is on a par with the rest. From this itappears that An Illustrious Prince was first chosen forthe distinction. But this Prince, inclined to hedgewaived his right suggesting instead some Theologian ofhigh rank among the sacred Profession, and eminent forLearning and Piety. This person, concluded GeorgeJones, could be no other than the Archbishop of Canter-bury, and in three sentences—which occupy two pages—he lays his work at the prelates feet. Is it necessary to say more? George Jones was acrank, and his book is that of a crank! Yet some of its. SOUTH AMERICA IN ENGLISH PRINT 457 matter has been quoted by some later authors whose workwas not without weight. In order to find a companion-volume for this last Iwill drag from its proper chronological place anotherbook which I imagine—though I have not had the advan-tage of reading it—may be safely introduced into thecrank section, if by no other virtue than that of its il-luminating title, which is Researches into the Lost His-tories of America, or the Zodiac shown to be an old Ter-restrial Map in which the Atlantic Isle is delineated, sothat light can be thrown upon the obscure Histories of theEarthworks and Ruined Cities of America. This work,published in 1883, is, I believe, eloquent of the allegeddemons of South America, and is from the pen of Mr. Blacket. In 1846, when the powder of the Argentine DictatorRosas was
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