CONTENTS FREE LIL. RY,

OF THE THIRD VOLUMENEW YORK.

BOOK I.

PROGRESS of navigation among the ancients.. View of their
discoveries as preparatory to those of the moderns.. Im-
perfection of ancient navigation and geography.. Doc-
trine of the zones Farther discoveries checked by the
irruption of barbarous nations.. Geographical knowledge
still preserved in the East, and among the Arabians..
Revival of commerce and navigation in Europe. . favour-
ed by the crusades. . extended by travellers into the East

promoted by the invention of the mariner's compass .
First regular plan of discovery formed by Portugal ..
State of that kingdom.. Schemes of Prince Henry
Early attempts feeble. . Progress along the western coast
of Africa.. Hopes of discovering a new rout to the East
Indies.. Attempts to accomplish this. . Prospects of suc-

cess

BOOK II.

Birth and education of Columbus.. acquires naval skill in
the service of Portugal.. conceives hopes of reaching the
East Indies by holding a westerly course.. his system
founded on the ideas of the ancients, and knowledge of their
navigation.. and on the discoveries of the Portuguese.
His negociations with different courts.. Obstacles which
he had to surmount in Spain.. Voyage of discovery.
difficulties.. success return to Spain. . Astonishment
of mankind on this discovery of a New World.. Papal
grant of it.. Second voyage.. Colony settled.. Farther
discoveries.. War with the Indians.. First tax imposed
on them.. Third voyage.. He discovers the continent..
State of the Spanish colony.. Errors in the first system
of colonizing.. Voyage of the Portuguese to the East In-
dies by the Cape of Good Hope.. Effects of this. . Dis-
coveries made by private adventurers in the New World..

Name of America given to it.. Machinations against Co-
lumbus.. Disgraced and sent in chains to Europe
Fourth voyage of Columbus. . His discoveries.. disasters
.. death

BOOK III.

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State of the colony in Hispaniola. . New war with the In-
dians.. Cruelty of the Spaniards.. Fatal regulations con-
cerning the condition of the Indians.. Diminution of that
people.. Discoveries and settlements.. First colony planted
on the continent.. Conquest of Cuba.. Discovery of Flo-
rida of the South Sea.. Great expectations raised by
this.. Causes of disappointment with respect to these for
some time.. Controversy concerning the treatment of the
Indians.. Contrary decisions.. Zeal of the ecclesiastics,
particularly of Las Casas.. Singular proceedings of Xi-
menes.. Negroes imported into Americà.. Las Casas' idea
of a new colony.. permitted to attempt it. . unsuccessful
Discoveries towards the West.. Yucatan.. Campeachy
· New Spain.. Preparations for invading it... 153

BOOK IV.

View of America when first discovered, and of the manners

and policy of its most uncivilized inhabitants.. Vast extent

of America.. Grandeur of the objects it presents to view

Its mountains.. rivers.. lakes.. Its form favourable

to commerce.. Temperature.. predominance of cold . .
Causes of this.. uncultivated.. unwholesome.. its animals

...soil.. Inquiry how America was peopled.. various theo-

ries.. what appears most probable. . Condition and cha-

racter of the Americans.. All, the Mexicans and Peruvians

excepted, in the state of savages.. Inquiry confined to the

uncivilised tribes.. Difficulty of obtaining information . .

various causes of this.. Method observed in the inquiry..

1, The bodily constitution of the Americans considered..

, The qualities of their minds.. 111, Their domestic state

Ir, Their political state and institutions. . v, Their

system of war and public security. VI, The arts with

which they were acquainted.. VII, Their religious ideas

and institutions.. VIII, Such singular and detached customs
as are not reducible to any of the former heads.. 1x, Gene-
ral review and estimate of their virtues and defects. 213

BOOK V.

History of the conquest of Spain by Cortes.

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A

CATALOGUE

OF

SPANISH BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS.

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Novi Orbis Historia Naturalis et Moralis. Exst. in

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Christov. Tratado la las Drogas y Medecinas de las Indias Occidentales, con sus Plantas Dibuxadas al vivo, 4to, Burgos, 1578. Acugna, P. Christoph. Relation de la Riviere des Amazones, 12mo, tom. ii, Paris, 1682.

Acugna's Relation of the great River of the Amazons in South America, 8vo, London, 1698.

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