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at Paramatta, in New South Wales, partly in Ota- 

 lieite itself, and of which mention is made in the 

 Narrative of the Mission at Otaheite. London, 

 1818. 



We see, with astonishment, these islands, under 

 the influence of Christianity, quickly and tran- 

 quilly rising from a state of sociar order, resem- 

 bling ours in the middle ages, to that which has 

 but now begun for our world after long and bloody 

 storms. The people and the chiefs there take each 

 other by the hand over the ruins of the abolished 

 social system, of the taboo, and of arbitrary power ; 

 the written law is unanimously and solemnly de- 

 sired, proposed, and confirmed, and the foreign 

 teachers, who refrain from all interference in the 

 concerns of the state, behold, with prayers of gra- 

 titude, the growth of the seed they have sown. 



While we hoped, in vain, for specimens of the 

 rising literature of Otaheite, our wish has been 

 fulfilled in another dialect, and we are indebted for it 

 to the same beneficent Missionary Society. We have 

 before us a Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lan- 

 guage of New Zealand, published by the Church 

 Missionary Society. London, 1820. 8vo. The 

 author of this grammar is the same Mr. Kendall 

 who has communicated to us the Vocabulary in 

 Nicolas*s voyage. The language has now been 

 opened to us, and we correct our opinion. 



The dialect of New Zealand has, like the Tonga, 

 pronouns of the three persons in the singular, and 



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