VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR, iGl 



voyage round the worlds and had formed 

 an immenfe collection of plants, and of 

 every object of natural hiftory to be found 

 in the countries which he had vifited. The 

 relatiou of his voyage, therefore, was likely 

 to afford a variety of interefling obferva- 

 tions ; and he was well aflured that if he 

 went immediately to France, his ufeful 

 labours would not remain unrewarded. He 

 however renounced all thefe advantages a» 

 foon as he knew that M. Poivre wiflied 

 to employ him in procuring new informa- 

 tion. After acquiring a thorough know* 

 ledge of the natural hiftory of the Ifles of 

 France and Bourbon, he proceeded to Ma* 

 dagafcar in the year 1 769, and M. de Mo- 

 davCj who was then governor of Fort 

 Dauphin, ga^e him every aiUftance in his 

 power to enable him to render farther fer- 

 vicea to fcience. It is much to be regretted 

 that the accounts of thefe important difco- 



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