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population more accurately determined, and the general 

 state of human kind ameliorated ! 



Islands as yet undiscovered are not classed alone as likely 

 to participate in those advantages. The extensive and 

 populous empires of Japan and China, beset by the true 

 principles of civilization from the eastern and western inter- 

 course with Europeans, will by degrees learn to lay 

 aside their barbarous caution, and blend themselves, in the 

 virtues, sciences, and refinements of society with the great 

 family of mankind. 



The Russian empire in the east will have a new interest 

 to cultivate in the friendship of Great Britain. The 

 Aleutean, or Black Foxes' Islands, are the right of England 

 in consequence of Cook's discovery ; and Bristol Bay, to 

 the north-east of them, may be hereafter an emporium for 

 the Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and British trade, which 

 will turn infinitely to the advantage of the latter. 



The Japanese differ in person little from the Uskee-mes, 

 seeming to spring like most other Tartar nations from a 

 common origin. The sea is also the favourite resort of 

 the Japanese in the same manner as of the Uskees. The 

 former, however, by inhabiting more genial climates, where 

 nature presented comforts in greater abundance, have risen 

 to higher refinement, and have a regulated society bound 

 by a code of laws pecuhar to themselves, and which are 



