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THE

HISTORY

OF

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA,

FROM ITS DISCOVERY

TO TILE

DEATH OF GENERAL WASHINGTON.

BY RICHARD SNOWDEN, EŠQ.

REVISED, CORRECTED, AND IMPROVED, AND THE HISTORY OF NORTH
AMERICA BROUGHT DOWN TO THE CESSION OF FLORIDA
IN 1821, AND OF SOUTH AMERICA TO THE BATTLE

OF CAROBOBO IN THE SAME YEAR.

BY CHARLES W. BAZELEY.

History is the depository of the experiments of social science; and it is important
that all should understand the consequences of human institutions and actions;
and these conscquences are to be found in History. -Sismondi.

Philadelphia.
PUBLISHED BY M'CARTY & DAVIS,

No. 171 MARKET STREET.

Entcrcd according to the act of congress, in the year 1832, by M'Cartg & Davis, in the clerk's office of the district court of the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

STEP.EOTYPED BY J. HOWE.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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Colunibus returns to Spain with great treasures.

Hc sails on a third voyage.

He arrives at Trinidad.

Mutiny of Roldan....

He is sent as a prisoner to Spain.

Qvando's appointincnt as Governor

Columbus sails the fourth time.

lle visits St. Domingo...

Ilonduras and Yucatan

Hc suffers shipwreck

His death....

Anacoana cruelly lrcaici! by Ovando.

Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean.

Cortcs accompanies Velasquez to ('uba.

He invades Mexico..

Character of Montezuma.

lic meets (ortes...

Montezuma made prisoner.

Cortes gets full possession of Mexico.

Magellan sails from Seville..

Account of Pizarro.

His conquest of Peru.

Revolution of New Granada.

Venezuela

Colombia..

Buenos Ayres.

Chili

OF NORTH AMERICA.

Conjectures on peopling America

Character of the Aborigines...

State of the country in 1763.

British parliament lay duties on imports.

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