...have visited every part of it, he says that " there is not, in all the extent of that vast empire, a single monument or vestige of any building more ancient than the conquest." At that time, distrust was perhaps the safer side for the historian ; but since Dr. Robertson wrote...

...advance towards improvement." " There is not," he continues, " in all the extent of that vast empire, a single monument or vestige of any building more ancient than the conquest." Such was the opinion of this great historian, founded, doubtless, upon the most correct information...

...epoch, the abode of uncivilized men. "There is not " (says he*) " in all the extent of the vast empire a single monument, or vestige of any building, more ancient than the conquest;" and again: "The inhabitants of the New World were in a state of society so extremely rude as to be unacquainted...

...adventurers. So little, indeed, was the existence of these monuments known, that the able, philosophic, and conscientious Scottish historian, Dr Robertson,...unknown regions. In one of his reports to Charles V., Cortez describes his manner of proceeding in Mexico as follows : — ' I formed the design of demolishing...

...adventurers. So little, indeed, was the existence of these monuments known, that the able, philosophic, and conscientious Scottish historian, Dr Robertson,...countries at that period led him to the conclusion tlmt the progenitors of the American race must have been in a very barbarous state when they left the...

...adveaturers. So little, indeed, was the existence of these monuments known, that the able, philosophic, and conscientious Scottish historian, Dr. Robertson,...unknown regions. In one of his reports to Charles V, Cortez describes his manner of proceeding in Mexico as follows : — ' I formed the design of demolishing...

...Spain, and who have visited every part of it, — " There is not in all the extent of that vast empire a single monument or vestige of any building more ancient than the conquest," — a statement strictly true, if we except the Phoenician remains of the south country, which in some...

...Spain, and who have visited every part of it, — "There is not in all the extent of that vast empire a single monument or vestige of any building more ancient than the conquest," — a statement strictly true, if we except the Phoenician remains of the south country, which in some...

...epoch, the abode of uncivilized men. "There is not," says he, "in all the extent of the vast empire a single monument, or vestige of any building, more ancient than the conquest ;" and again : " The inhabitants of the New World were in a state of society so extremely rude as to be unacquainted...

...in the last part of the preceding century, had ventured to say that in all New Spain there was not "a single monument or vestige of any building more ancient than the Conquest." After Humboldt, the most famous of what may be called the pioneers of this art were Kingsborough, Dupaix....