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INTRODUCTION-—DISCOVERTES, 
4. How different is Ameriea Now, studded with cities, 
towns and villages, crossed by roads and railways, while 
Steamboats and. vessels go to and fro upon its large lakes 
And rivers} Much of the forest has beon cleared away, 
and in its place fields of grain wave in the sunlight, and 
churches, schools, and farm-houses dot the surface of the 
country, You seldom see an Indian NOW, and the most of 
the people in America have light Complexions like the 
people in Europe. "The reason is, they are either Euro- 
Peans, or the descendants of Europeans, 
5. How have these changes happened ? What led the 
people of Europe to find their Way across the ocean— 
Across three thousand miles of water—to this cuntinent ? 
And when they found it covered with forests and inhabited 
by savages, why did they come back to it again, more and 
More of them, until the whole land is now in the pos- 
Session of the white man ? 
6. If you look around you thoughtfully, you will learn 
the very cause that led to the settlement of America, You 
Will see that the People do not spend their time in hunting 
and fishing, as the Indians did, but in tilling the ground, 
in buying and selling, and sending their grain and mer- 
Chandize to other lands, for which they bring back goods 
NO£ produced in this country. It was this desire to trade. 
which led the White man across the Atlantic. 
7. Look Next at the map of the Eastern Hemisphere. 
F our hundred Years ago the European nations that were 
Sen Glenn 1, er the English, French, Spaniards, and 
! ng on the Mediterranean sea. Ships 
used fo sail as far Sastward on this sea as Constantinople 
and other Ports, and Were there lıdem with rich goods 
brought Overland from Varicus zarte cf Asia, rg: 
portion of these 800d8 conzi:_& 8, Bent NG, 
gems and Precious Stones 43.004 Tal weg Pe Ti