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Oxford. 



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on the Books 3984. 



1820. of Convocation 187.3. 



on the Books 4102. 



Cambridge. 



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on the Boards 3698. 



1820. of the Senate 1558. 



on the Boards 3395. 



6. Prospectus of an Expedition into Africa. — The advance- 

 ment of science, the progressive discovery of the geography, 

 the natural history, the customs, the antiquities, the historical 

 traditions of the interior of Africa, and the acquiring of the 

 requisite knowledge for ameliorating the condition of its inha- 

 bit ants, arc objects into which neither national nor political ani- 

 mosities are entered, wherein every feeling subsides but that of 

 an universal and disinterested benevolence, and for which the 

 same generous zeal animates all nations, all parties, all insti- 

 tutions, all classes of society. 



Governments, discouraged by so many calamitous disap- 

 pointments, and reluctant to risk a further waste of public 

 money, and the lives of valuable subjects, coriscientiously sup- 

 press their anxiety for the advancement of these important ob- 

 jects ; perhaps fortunately for the character of Europe and the 

 happiness of Africa; for the enterprises of discovery of a go- 

 vernment, however peaceably and legitimately planned, are, 

 sometimes, by the ambition or impetuosity of those to whom 

 they are consigned, perverted into aggression and assumption, 

 and the small force which is afforded to protect, may perhaps 

 be used to injure. 



The harmless, simple enterprises, originated by individuals, 

 admit of no offence to the laws of nature, or to the laws of na- 

 tions, but peaceably benefit both science and humanity ; wit- 

 ness the illustrious exertions of the African Association of 

 England. It is desirable that tlie emissaries of such societies, 

 that the representatives of such honourable feehngs, should 



