‘IN STUDYING HISTORY, IT MUST BE BORNE IN MIND THAT A KNOWLEDGE IS NECESSARY OF THE STATE OF MANNERS, CUSTOMS, WEALTH, ARTS, AND SCIENCE AT THE DIFFERENT PERIODS TREATED OF. THE TEXT OF CIVIL HISTORY REQUIRES A CONTEXT OF THIS KNOWLEDGE IN THE MIND OF THE READER.’ Although the discoveries which are related in this volume have been already published, yet there is to be considered the large number of readers who feed in the intermediate regions between the arid highlands and mountain ascents of scientific memoirs, and the lush--not to say rank--marsh-meadows of the novel and literature of amusement.…
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