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interesting chain of mountains. M. Endress proposes consequently to visit next 

 summer the High-Pyrenees ; in autumn he will devote his attention to the coast 

 of Bayonne, passing the winter there, and going in the spring to the Low- 

 Pyrenees ; the rest of the year will be employed in examining the botany of the 

 countries which the traveller has not been previously able to visit. The execution 

 of this plan will depend, however, on the will of the present members of the So- 

 ciety, and of those who shall continue to join it, and co-operate by their subscrip- 

 tions to the developement of its activity. The committee request them, in con- 

 sequence, to give their support as soon as possible, and transmit their subscrip- 

 tions. 



We understand, in the interim, that a project is formed for a great botanical 

 expedition to the southern hemisphere in 1832 and 1833, the announcement of 

 which will be published as soon as it is definitively settled. 



Notice of the Fellatahs. 



The Gazette Universelle cf Augsburg has published the following particulars 

 concerning the Fellatahs, from a letter of Mr. William B. Hodgson, attached to 

 the American consulship in the Barbary states. 



It is very probable that the Fellatahs will found in future times a very great 

 empire in Soudan, and that this power will play the principal part in the civili- 

 zation of Africa. If the Sultan Bello abolished slavery in his states, it would be 

 a great step made towards a better state of things. The example given by a 

 great nation, and the influence of its monarch, would soon force the inferior 

 tribes to imitate him ; and if once the barbarous wars which these tribes carry 

 on among themselves, for the purpose of obtaining slaves, were done away with, 

 nothing would be opposed to the civilization of these countries ; for commerce, 

 which from that moment would establish itself on the coast of Africa, would 

 bring life around every thing. Maroc, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, would thus 

 lose their rich commerce of slaves ; and as the Africans could no longer, as in 

 our days, come and exchange in those states their slaves for merchandize of all 

 kinds, they would prefer the more commodious markets of the coast of the Atlan- 

 tic, to the perilous journies across the deserts. This consideration has in no way 

 escaped the barbarian governments: on the contrary, we know how much they 

 have used their influence, as African nations, to deprive Christians of all free ac- 

 cess among them. The American colony of Liberia is called by its position to 

 take a great part in this revolution of commerce, and to draw great advantages 

 from it. 



Though Captain Clapperton has already given some detailed information on 

 the history and character of the Fellatahs, the subjoined remarks will not be 

 found void of interest. 



The Fellatahs are so named by the Negroes, but they themselves use the term 

 , Fellan, or more exactly Faulan ; but as this nation is anthropoklepthe, as well- 

 as the Tuaryckes, and as it carries away negroes for tlie purposes of slavery, 

 Fellatah appears to be a term of reproach, like that of Serdu, by which the Ne- 

 groes designate the Tuaryckes. At Senegal, and on the borders of the Gambia, 

 they are called Fulah and Puhls. Mungo Park designates them under the first 

 of these names, and MoUier under the second. The Fellatah nation extends 

 from the Atlantic to the frontier of Darfour. It speaks every where the same 

 language, of which the following are words, with the singular and plural termina- 

 tions. The orthography and pronunciation is after that of the English language. 



Singular. Plural. Singular. Plural. 



Water, Deam. Moon, Lauro. 



Fire, Gheabingol. Man, Gorkoo. Gorhai. 



Sun, Nandjee. Woman, Debbo. Eroubai, 



