33^ VOTAGE TO MADAGASCAR* 



Reflections on the Northern Part 

 OF Madagascar. 



THE northcra part of Madagafcar is 

 much more fertile in productions of every 

 kind than the fouthern part. For this 

 reafon it is more frequented by Euro- 

 pean veffels; but the interior part of the 

 country has never yet been vifited. When 

 at the Ifle of France, I in vain endeavoured 

 to procure fuoh information as might ena- 

 ble me to write a defcription of it. On 

 this fubje£i:, Bigorne could only give mc 

 fome vague and uncertain ideas, which it 

 was difficult to make any ufe of. It wa?, 

 however, from vphat he told me that I dreiv 

 out» at Manaharrej a fhort memoir, which 

 afterwards ferved as a bafis for Benyowfki, 

 to propofe the forming of an eflabhfliment 



at the Bay of Antongih This memoir 



contains 



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