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its inhabitants, whose character displays so curious a 

 mixture of evil qualities and virtues of no mean order. 

 Whether I shall ever return to the land where I 

 have laboured sO hard in endeavouring- to extend 

 tlie bounds of our knowledge, is doubtful ; but I shall 

 bear a kindly remembrance of the country and ita 

 inhabitants as long as I live. 



