ASSOCIATION. 
9 
ABSENT MEMBERS, 
BISHOP OF LANDAFF, 
LORD CARYSFORT, 
SIR JOHN SINCLAIR: 
RESOLVED, 
That as no fpecies of information is more ardently defirecl, 
or more generally -ufeful, than that which improves the fcicnce 
of Geography; and as the vafl: Continent of Africa, no twith- 
ftanding the efforts of the Ancients, and the widies of the 
Moderns, is ftiil in a great meafure unexplored, the Members 
of this Club do form themfelves into an AiTociation for Pro- 
moting the Difcovery of the Inland Parts of that Quarter of 
the World : 
That, for the faid purpofe, each Member do fubfcribe Five 
Guineas a year, for three years ; and that at, or after that 
period, any Member, on giving a year's notice, may with- 
draw himfelf from the Aflbciation : 
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