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 told how often they have changed their government; thee ilands have hitherto changed only their name. Of heroes to conquer, or legilators to civilize, here has been no appearance; nothing has happened to them but that they have been ometimes een by wandering navigators, who paed by them in earch of better habitations.

the Spaniards, who, under the conduct of Columbus, dicovered America, had taken poeion of its mot wealthy regions; they urpried and terrified Europe by a udden and unexampled influx of riches. They were made at once inupportably inolent, and might perhaps have become irreitibly powerful, had not their mountainous treaures been cattered in the air with the ignorant profuion of unaccutomed opulence.

greater part of the European potentates aw this tream of riches flowing into Spain