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period of the earth's history. Finally, Dr Livingstone alludes 

 to some coast-deposits with shells like those now inhabiting the 

 sea. If the shells form groups identical with those now living, 

 we should call the deposits containing them "raised beaches." 

 But to determine their exact age, would require long and very 

 nice work. 



All thanks and honour to the Author for what he has told 

 us. He has done wonders when we consider his many inter- 

 ruptions ; his periods of exhaustion ; his rough untaught com- 

 panions who required his constant care; his enormous labours; 

 his daily observations with the sextant ; his hourly remarks 

 recorded in his journal ; his simple love of truth that allows 

 him not to swell his narrative with hypotheses ; his exertions 

 of medical skill in all times of need ; his life of purity, and his 

 daily lessons of love to those who were around him. They 

 loved him and would have died for him; being strongly af- 

 fected by that kind of instinctive sympathy by which even a 

 poor untaught savage is drawn towards one who is brave, 

 and kind, and good 1 . 



: About the time he left England a pamphlet was printed hy Dr 

 Livingstone on the languages spoken by the Natives of South Africa. I 

 have not yet had time to read this work with care; and its matter is foreign 

 to the more immediate objects of this letter. Since this Postscript was 

 in type, I have learnt that the Publisher (Mr Murray) has now sup- 

 plied the Missionary Travels in South Africa with a very good Index, for 

 which every reader will be grateful. 



