POSTSCRIPT. 



Trinity College, 

 May 17, 1858. 



Your work, I am told, is ready for publication ; and very 

 nearly the whole of the previous letter is now in type. I 

 must therefore — especially after the long and unhappy delay to 

 which I have before alluded (p.lxxiv.) — make this Postscript 

 as short as I can. From the first I intended to confine my 

 letter chiefly to the Author's account of the native Africans, 

 and to his past labours and future prospects as a benevolent 

 Missionary — using that word in his own large sense ; so as 

 to include under it every man who is willing personally to 

 devote himself to the improvement of the physical and moral 

 condition of the Natives. The object of this Postscript is to 

 give a synopsis of the physical and scientific information with 

 which this admirable volume abounds. It greatly wants an 

 Index; for it is written inartificialiy, and most important facts 

 are so scattered through the journal, that when partly for- 

 gotten they are not easily referred to. Such an Index need 

 not be long. 



1. The Vegetable Kingdom. Under this head may be here- 

 included the forest-trees, fruit-trees, cereals, plants of econo- 

 mical and medicinal use, grasses, flowers, fruits, &c. There is 

 a very great mass of popular information under these heads. 

 The facts are stated without any affectation of scientific dis- 

 play, and are full of excellent suggestions — many of which 

 will, no doubt, be laboriously followed out by future scientific 

 travellers. 



2. Meteorology and Climate. These subjects are very 

 nearly allied to those included under the preceding head. 

 Under this head are here included many facts respecting 

 periodical winds ; tropical rains ; ranges of thermometrical 

 temperature; hygrometrical conditions and malaria. Under 



