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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 not 
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- 
fiity 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 
