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 ri\^er where its researches 

 terminated. The physical information acquired is, on 

 account of its scientific form, kept separate, and follows 

 in the Appendix 



