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present difference of religion, government, and 

 general circumstances.* 



* See, upon these and other kindred topics, the work before 

 referred to, the 5th vol. of the last edition of " Dr. Prichard's 

 Researches into the Physical History of Man." I much regretted 

 that I never read this till after my return to England. The only 

 edition in Captain Blackwood's library on board the Fly was an 

 old one, without the part relating to Polynesia and the Eastern 

 Archipelago. 



