Excerpt from The History of America, Vol. 1 of 2 IN fulfilling the engagement which I have come under to the public With respect to the History of America, it was my intention not to have published any part of the work until the whole was completed. The present state of the British Colonies has induced me to alter that resolution. While they are engaged in civil war with Great Britain, inquiries and speculations con. Cerning their ancient forms of policy and laws, which exist no longer, can not be interesting. The attention and expectation of mankind are now turn ed tos their future condition. In whatever manner this unhappy con. Test may terminate, a new order of things must arise in North America. And its affairs will assume another aspect. I wait, with the solicitude of a good citizen, until the ferment subsides, and re lav government he reestablish ed, and then I shall return to this art 0 my work, in which I had made some regress. That together vi the history of Portuguese America, and the settlements made by the several nations of Europe in the West India islands, will complete my plan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.