APPENDIX. 



Note A. 



It is only on the Ocean that Universal Empwe is practi- 

 cable — only by means of Navigation that all the world 

 can be subdued or retained under one dominion. On 

 land, the greatest numbers, and quantity of materiel, are 

 unavailable, excepting around the spot where they are 

 produced. The most powerful army is crippled by ad- 

 vancing a few degrees in an enemy's territory, unless 

 when aided by some catching enthusiasm ; its resources 

 get distant — communication is obstructed — subjection 

 does not extend beyond the range of its guns, and it 

 quickly melts away. The impossibility of dominion ex- 

 tending over a great space, when communication is only 

 by land, has often been proved. The rule of Cyrus, or 

 Alexander, the Caesars, the Tartar conquerors *, or 

 Bonaparte, did not extend over a tithe of the earth ; and we 

 may believe, that, by some of these chiefs, dominion was 



* The very extended sway, the state of civilization considered, of 

 the Tartar, was evidently the consequence of the great facility of com- 

 munication from the plain open surface of the country, and the eques- 

 trian habits of the people. 



