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documents usually are. And now we may venture 

 to add, that with scarcely an exception, there was 

 not a single subject indicated, on which he did n(>t 

 bestow a most enlightened and unceasing attention^ 

 and accomplished all that could be desired, in a 

 way that is alike calculated to excite wonder and 

 admiration. The " Travels" are filled with an in- 

 finity of judicious and learned remarks, and present 

 much information of the highest value to history 

 generally, and to that of our race especially. Man, 

 and still more the various tribes he encountered, 

 receive a large share of attention; their natural 

 dispositions and habits ; their religions, supersti- 

 tions, rites, and ceremonies ; their diseases, and 

 popular and peculiar remedies; along with their 

 languages, in their various affinities and contrasts ; 

 as also the important subject of antiquities, con- 

 nected with architecture, sepulture, &c. ; likewise 

 their employments, whether in agriculture and hor- 

 ticulture, including the rearing of cattle and horses, 

 the management of forests and vineyards, the pro- 

 duction of dye-stuffs, drugs, cotton, mulberries, 

 silk- worms, bees, cochineal ; or in arts and manu- 

 factures, as of leather, pottery, potash, soda, sulphur, 

 vitriol, ardent spirits, wines, &c. ; not forgetting 

 their fisheries, so requisite among those observing 

 the superstitions of the Greek church; and their 

 trade and commerce generally ; — these, and similar 

 matters, obtain all due regard. Geology and mine- 

 ralogy are scarcely second in his regards, and we 

 might extract volumes on this subject alone which 



