VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAt, 



Walks. The population of Madagafcar is 

 fufficiemly exteafive to give us reafon to 

 expe^ fuccefs from fuch eftablifliments : 

 befides, in that country, labour and raw ma- 

 terials are exceedingly cheap. 



No dread was to be appreliended that M. 

 de la Bourdonnais would lead the diredors 

 of the company into great expence for ware- 

 houfes and buildings. On the contrary, he 

 wifhed they might have the prudence to 

 imitate the fmipUcity and economy obfcrved 

 by the Malegaches, in the conftru£tion of 

 their houfes. Nothing, indeed, would be 

 more ruinous than to raife in this wild couu- 

 try edifices like thofe ufed by us for carry* 

 ing on manufadiories of that kind. It is too 

 common in Europe to fee ufeful cftablifli- 

 ments languifb, ^nd, fometimes, even oc- 

 cafion bankruptcy to thofe who fet them on 

 foot, becaufe they liave been fo imprudent 

 as to launch out into aa extravagance of 



build- 



