AFRICA. • iij 
iacrifice his time, and invent any novelty, for 
the good of his country. It is to be prefumed, 
that public utility will be an objedl of more at- 
tention under a free goternment; that travellers 
will be rewarded ; that a poor fellow, enamour- 
ed with fcience, will not be reduced to dilTipate 
his little fortune, that a neft of flupid and de- 
vouring drones may have wherewith to admi- 
nifter to their fenfual gratifications ; and that 
- places and rewards will not always fall to the 
lot of fo many famous advifers, but of him 
who has really laboured, and made ufeful dif- 
coverles. This, however, is not all : I fee 
many other Vi^iflies to form for the future good 
of the country. 
Our path obliging us to purfue the courfe 
of the Green- River, the frefhnefs of the plea- 
fant vale through which It flowed, its various 
meanderings, and the diiferent profped:s arifing 
at every ftep, filled my mind with the moft 
pleafing thoughtxS : I trod on a verdant carpet 
embroidered with flowers ; the furrouading 
hills, covered v/ith ihrubs and beautiful plants, 
difplayed to my eyes a delightful Ihelter in 
every thicket ^ it was a garden in the bofom 
^f a defert* 
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