. A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America: in respect to the situation and extent of empires, kingdoms, and provinces; their climates, soil, produce, &c. ... . tinent of SouthAmerica, foon excited the attention of other nations,in like manner to fit out vefiels for difcoveries, beyondthe territories claimed by the Spanifh monarchs. Thedetails of thefe expeditions would however have ledus beyond* the limits we can allow : it is fufRcientlyknown v/hat flourifhing colonies now exift, whichwere planted alon
. A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America: in respect to the situation and extent of empires, kingdoms, and provinces; their climates, soil, produce, &c. ... . tinent of SouthAmerica, foon excited the attention of other nations,in like manner to fit out vefiels for difcoveries, beyondthe territories claimed by the Spanifh monarchs. Thedetails of thefe expeditions would however have ledus beyond* the limits we can allow : it is fufRcientlyknown v/hat flourifhing colonies now exift, whichwere planted along that very extenfive coaft reachingfrom the mouth of the river St. Laurence in NorthAmerica, to the Rio de la Plata in South America;fome of which fpread themfeives very far within land :befide the ifiands in the gulph of Mexico and elfe-where. The difcoveries to the northward, however,were not rendered fo memorable as thofe of the Spa-niards ; no fuch powerful regular empires havingbeen found there, -as were thofe of Peru and Indians of North America live in detached tribesand independent nations, whofe jarring interefts andhereditar/ antipathies, have kept them from uniting,and even from increafmg : add to which, that though they. A CONCISE ACCOUNT, &c. B^ they have not in general been well ufed by the newintruders on their antient lands, who leldom confultedthe inclinations of the natives in their firft fettlementsand fubfequent claims; yet no fuch unprincipled in-human tranfadtions have ftained the records of theEnglifh and other fettlers, as have diftinguiflied thofeof the firft Spanifh adventurers. Not but that thefe American fettlements have beenthe theatres of many fignal engagements, fince theirfirft planting, in the contefts between Europeanpowers for the polTeJilion of them : thefe have not onlyfpent much of their own blood, but have feduced thenatives to turn their hands, furniflied with new weaponsof fwift deftruftion, againft each other, in their re-fp
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