THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF AMERICA. BY WM. ROBERTSON, D.D. F.R.S. ABRIDGED. WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR FROM THAT BY DUGALD STEWART, F.R.S.E. LONDON: PRINTED FOR SCOTT, WEBSTER, AND GEARY, 36, CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE. 7-28-31 MEN Gift ADVERTISEMENT. THE present Edition of the celebrated History of the Discovery and Conquest of America, by Dr. Robertson, has not been materially abridged, but only condensed to about four-fifths of the original work, so as to bring it into one volume of THE ENGLISH CLASSIC LIBRARY. Books IX. and X. are wholly omitted, as they are confined to an account of the first settlement of Virginia and New England, and were not originally published by the Author, nor are they connected with his History of the Discovery and Conquest of America,' but are merely fragments of a larger work which he contemplated on British America. The Notes and Illustrations, which were added to support the authority of the text, are also omitted, as it is presumed the general reader will be satisfied to be guided by such a correct and impartial historian as Dr. Robertson. The elegant Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Dugald Stewart, has been slightly |