390 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
of which the syntax and grammatical forms, ingeniously 
combined with art, indicate, in the opinion of Malte-Brun, 
“a meditative genius, foreign to the habitual condition of 
these people.” 
These few observations contain a summary of the know- 
ledge of the moral circumstances and condition of the 
people, and their means of subistence, as obtained by the 
expedition to the point of the river where its researches 
terminated. The physical information acquired is, on 
account of its scientific form, kept separate, and follows 
in the Appendix 
