VOYAGE 



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MADAGASCAR. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND, 



THE ifland of Madagafcar has excited 

 the avaricious defires of the Euro- 

 peans, ever fmce it had the ijiisfortune 

 to be tolerably known. Its extent, together 

 ■with the richnefs of its foil and produdions, 

 feemed to offer, to the people who fliould 

 make a conquefl: of it, commercial advan- 

 tages which they would not, certainly, have 

 fuffered themfelves to neglect. Luckily how- 

 ever, the unwholcfomenefa of the climate 

 has hitherto faved it from the yoke of thofe 

 civilized nations, who affume the barbarous 



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