CIVIL AND NATURAL. XV 



rived, their names. In twelve or thirteen hundred 

 years more, the Greeks overrun the land of their fore- 

 fathers, invade India, conquer Egypt, and aim at uni- 

 versal dominion ; but the Romans appropriate to them- 

 selves the whole empire of Greece, and carry their 

 arms into Britain, of which they speak with haughty 

 contempt. The Goths, in the fulness of time, break 

 to pieces the unwieldly Colossus of Roman power, and 

 seize on the whole of Britain, except its wild moun- 

 tains ; but even those wilds become subject to other 

 invaders of the same Gothic lineage. During all those 

 transactions the Arabs possess both coasts of the Red 

 Sea, subdue the old seat of their first progenitors, and 

 extend their conquests, on one side, through Africa, 

 into Europe itself; on another, beyond the borders of 

 India, part of which they annex to their flourishing 

 empire. In the same interval the Tartars, widely dif- 

 fused over the rest of the globe, swarm in the north- 

 east, whence they rush to complete the reduction of 

 Const antine's beautiful domains, to subjugate China 9 

 to raise in these Indian realms a dynasty splendid and 

 powerful, and to ravage, like the two other families, 

 the devoted regions of Iran. By this time the Mexi- 

 cans and Peruvians, with many races of adventurers 

 variously intermixed, have peopled the continent and 

 isles of America, which the Spaniards, having restor- 

 ed their old government in Europe, discover and in 

 part overcome : but a colony from Britain, of which 

 Cicero ignorantly declared, that it contained nothing 

 valuable } obtain the possession, and finally the so- 

 vereign 



