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nual labour, and Involuntary exertions, have 

 hot time to countera<3: thofe erroneous opini- 

 ons which are inculcated into their minds 

 from their infancy • but favage people, inha- 

 biting fertile countries, are no*t in the lllce fitu- 

 ation; they are fond of inftrudion; they have 

 Icifure for attending to it ; and this fs an ad- 

 vantagei certainly , which cannot be coutefled. 



Of the North-East Part of Mada- 

 gascar, 



THE north-eall part of the ifland of 

 Madagafcar is a rich magazine for the colo- 

 nies in the Ifles of France and Bourbon^ 

 The moft frequented ports in this part, are 

 Foulepointe, St. Mary, and the Bay of An- 

 tongih It is in thefe three places that the 

 Trench have attempted to form all their 

 eftablifhrncnts, A foldier in the fervice of 

 the Eaft- India Company, whofe name was 

 Bigorne, gave me fome intereftiog informa-* 

 O tion 



