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European arts and European comforts, 
made me once think them a very dull 
race of men, to say the least. I was 
struck when I first came to Africa 
with the different manner in which a 
Krooman and a Mandingo man (a 
Mohammedan) viewed an English 
clock: It was a new thing to both of 
them. The Krooman eyed it atten- 
tively for about a minute, but with an 
unmoved’ countenance, and then 
walked away to look at something 
else, without saying a word. ‘The 
Mandingo man could not sufficiently 
admire the equal and constant motion 
of the pendulum; his attention was 
repeatedly drawn to it: he made all 
possible inquiries as to the cause of its 
motion; he renewed the subject next 
morning, and could hardly be per- 
suaded that the pendulum had conti- 
nued to “walk,” as he called it, all 
night. [In general, I think, the case is 
nearly the same. They have little or 
no curiosity about things which are of 
no use in their own country; they are 
careless about our comforts and Juxu- 
ries ; none of them have been rendered 
necessary by habit, and they would 
often be inconsistent with the principal 
objects of their pursuit. 
A Krooman will never sell a 
Krooman, nor allow him to be sold by 
others if he can prevent it. Partly 
from their general usefulness on the 
coast; partly from the probability that 
the sale of a Krooman would be se- 
verely revenged, they go about every 
where, in slave ships and to slave fac- 
tories, and are active agents in the 
slave-trade, without any more appre- 
hension of being sold themselves than 
if they were British mariners. At 
home, their numbers make them formi- 
dable to their neighbours; and they 
seem seldom to be engaged in war, 
but when great divisions exist among 
themselves: few, therefore, are ever 
sold. 
The numerals in the Kroo language 
are as follows: 
One -++e-+++ Doh, or Dh, 
Two, +--++++++ Sau, or Saung. 
Three, e+++-- Tau, or Tah. 
Four, +-++++++ Nyéah, (one syllable.) 
Five, eeeere+s Ma. 
Six,--+---+-++- Méneath Diih. 
Seven,++++++++ Méneah Saung. 
Hight,--++++-+ Moneah Tah. 
Nine, ----+-++ Sep-ah-duh. 
Ten, ++++++++ Pod-ah, or Pooneah. 
Eleven, ++++-+ Poéneah Dth. 
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F Reflections on Volcanos, by M. Gay-Lussac. 
[Jan. 1, 
ladda few more specimens of the 
language. 
Moon,---+++++ Chi’. 
Sun, eeoses.- Gidh. 
Night, +++.++ Wéoroo-ah’. 
Man, +++++e++ Nyfrdh, or Nyi-yah’. 
Woman,---:-- Bi-vinol’. 
Fire, «--..+++ Nyér, (one syllable). 
Water, ---+++ Ni. 
Sea, s++ee+e+ Yamooz. 
Cassada,++++++ Sugirith. 
Rice, --++---+ Quoh’. 
Nearly all the vowels are pro- 
nounced very short; the consonants 
indistinct; with occasionally a strong 
nasal sound, particularly in-the num- 
bers two and three :—an apostrophe 
after a word marks that short breaking 
off of a sound, (without dwelling on 
the first letter, or connecting it 
smoothly with the first letters of the 
next word,) which is common in many 
languages on the coast. 
—<=>—— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
REFLECTIONS om VOLCANOS, by M. GAY- 
Lussic; read lately before the ROYAL 
ACADEMY of SCIENCES at PARIS. 
[So eminent a philosopher as M. Gay- 
Lussac having treated at large on the 
difficult subject of the theory of vol- 
canoes, we consider it our duty to sub- 
mit his observations on a subject so 
eminently interesting.] 
WO hypotheses (says M. Gay- 
Lussac) may be formed as to 
the cause which produces volcanic 
phenomena. According to one of 
these, the earth remains ina state of 
incandescence at a certain depth be- 
low the surface (a supposition strongly 
favoured by the observations which 
have been recently made on the pro- 
gressive increase of temperature in 
mines); and this heat is the chief 
agent in volcanic phenomena. Ac- 
cording to the second hypothesis, the 
principal cause of these phenomena is 
a very strong and as yet unneutralized 
affinity existing between certain sub- 
stances, and capable of being called 
into action by fortuitous contact, pro- 
ducing a degree of heat sufficient to 
fuse the lavas and to raise them to the 
surface of the earth by means of the 
pressure of elastic fluids. 
According to either of these hypo- 
theses, it is absolutely necessary that 
the volcanic furnaces should be fed by 
substances originally foreign to them, 
and which have been some how or 
other introduced into them. , 
In fact, at those remote epochs 
which 
