Excerpt from The New World: Embracing American History, Vol. 1 of 2: 1. The Northmen in America, 2. The Spaniards in America: Mexico, Peru, Chili, Florida, the West Indies, &C., , With Spanish American Revolutions, 3. The Portuguese in America, Brazil, 4. The Dutch in America, 5. The French in America: Canada, Acadia, &C,

To one inspecting a map of the Western Hemisphere, the terri tories of that great division, adapted to a civilized population, appear pretty equally divided among the representatives of three European nations - England, Spain, and Portugal. France and Holland, whose transactions on the same theatre of action form a considerable item in the history of the past, have nearly - the first, from the insu¿i cisney of her marine, and the second, from the feebleness of the parent state - lost the footing which their early enterprise attained, and, for the future. Will probably take but little share in the destinies. Social or political, of America.

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