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M Heynemann is a man of great zeal, 

 activity and exertion. With confiderable pe-? 

 netration, he poffefTes much of perfeverance, 

 but from the want of a liberal education his 

 obfervations, though valuable, are loofe and 

 undigefted — devoid of arrangement and fcien- 

 tific corre&nefs ; and evidently not the refult 

 of any fyftematic train of inquiry. Governed 

 by chaftce, and with no fpecific objed in view, 

 his purfuits and remarks are not fo conducted 

 as to promote, efientially, the advancement of 

 natural fcience ; but, perhaps, a man of high 

 literary acquirements would be lefs fitted for 

 the poll which M. Heynemann has fo long 

 filled with credit to himfelf, and advantage to 

 the colony. I fhould have been much gra- 

 tified could we have prolonged our vifit, and 

 with regret bade adieu to this generous chief 

 of the naked tribes,. 



Although, from my fiiort flay among 

 them, you cannot expert an elaborate difqui- 

 fition upon the fubjecl: of the Indians, you 

 will perhaps demand a paffing word on fuch 

 prominent points, concerning them, as more 

 immediately ftrike the eye. I may therefore 

 tell you that the Indians who inhabit this part 



