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CHAPTER IV. 
GENERAL VIEW OF THE MORAL AND POLITICAL 
STATE OF AFRICA. 
The population divided into Foreign and Native* — Moors, — 
Native Barbary Races. — Copts. — Abyssinians* — Native 
Africa. — Negroes. — Forms of Government. — Arts and 
Manufactures throughout Africa. — Commerce. — Caravans. 
— Slave Trade. — Tables illustrative of the Trade between 
Britain and Africa^ 
A continent, so extensive as that of Africa, must 
necessarily be inhabited by a great diversity of na- 
tions. There is, in fact, no part of the globe where 
the human race appears under such a variety of 
striking and peculiar forms. It may be divided, 
in regard to population, into two great portions, 
separated from each other on the west by the river- 
line of the Senegal and Niger ; and on the east 
by the chain of the Mountains of the Moon. Afri- 
ca, to the north of this line, is occupied, or at 
least ruled, by foreign races, who, taking advantage 
of their superiority in arts and arms, have occupied 
all the fertile districts, and driven the original po- 
pulation into the mountains, the deserts, and the 
