IN conformity with the plan of the NATIONAL LIBRARY, the present HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES is a careful Compilation from the Standard Authors on the subject; and it will be sufficient to say
The first ages of the Scottish History are dark and fabulous. Nation^, as well a'o men, arrive at maturity by degrees, and the events which happened during their infancy or early youth, cannot be recollected, and deserve not to be remembered.