INDEX.

America , the continent of, difcovered by Chriftopher Co-lumbus, i. 164. How it obtained this name , 178. Fer-dinand of Caftile nominates two governments in, 226.The propofitions offered to the natives, 227. ill recep-tion of Ojeda and Nicueffa among them, 228. TheSouth-Sea difcovered by Balboa, 242. Rio de Plata difcovered, 252. The natives of, injurioufly treated bythe Spaniards, 277. The vaft extent of, ii. 2. Thegrand objeds it prefented to view, 3. The circumftancesof, favorable for commerce and civilization, 4. Theclimates of, 6 , 7. Various caufes of the peculiarity ofits climates, 8. Its rude and uncultivated Rate whenlirft difcovered, 13. Its animals, 13. Its infeds andreptiles, 17. Birds, 18. General account of its foil, 20.Inquiry into the firft population of, 22. Could not bepeopled by civilized nations, 29. The northern extremityof, contiguous to Afia , 32. Probably peopled byAfiatics , 40. Condition and charader of the native in-habitants inquired into, 42. "Were more rude than thenatives of any other known parts of the earth, 44. ThePeruvians and Mexicans excepted, 4?. The firft dif-■ coverers incapable of a judicious ipeculative examination, 46.The various fyftems of philofophers refpeding the natives,4g. Method obferved in the prefent review of their bodilyconftitution and circumftances, 3 o. The venereal difeafederived from this part of the world, 73. Why fothinly inhabited, 109. The country depopulated by con-tinual wars, 143. Caufe of the extreme coldnefs towardthe fouthern extremity of, 389- The natural uncultivatedftate of the country defcribed , 391. Bones of largeextind Ipecies of animals difcovered under ground nearthe banks of the Ohio , 392. Why European animalsdegenerate there, 393. Suppofed to have undergone aconvulfive feparation from Alia, 39< 5 . The vicinity ofthe two continents of Afia and America clearly afcertained,398—402. Caufes of the depopulation of, traced, iii. 238.This depopulation not the relult of any intentional fyftemof policy, 240. Nor the refult of religion, 243. Number