CONCLUSIONS SUGGESTED BY 
that if the zeal of the invader be not inflamed by the value of 
the captive, the propagation of the faith is feldom confidered 
as a reafon or pretext for war. 
Perhaps the attention of the Fhilofopher may be engaged by 
the life to which the fmall fhells of the Maldive Iflands are 
equally applied by the inhabitants of Callina, and by the na- 
tives of Bengal. Samenefs of opinion, or refemblance of con- 
duct, when founded in natural feeling, or a fimilar ftate of focie-^ 
ty, are feen without wonder in nations unconne«Sted and remote ; 
but that a cuftom fo arbitrary and artificial as that of employing 
Cowries as a fubftitute for coin, a cuftom which inftindt could 
not have produced, and chance could fcarcely have occafioned, 
fliould equally prevail among the Negros of Africa and the na- 
tives of Bengal, may juilly be deemed a curious and interefting 
phenomenon. 
To the Britifh Traveller, a defire of exchanging the ufual 
excurfion from Calais to Naples, for a Tour more extended and 
important, and of palling from fcenes with which all are ac- 
quainted, to refearches in which every objedl is new, and each 
ftep is difcovery, may recommend the Kingdom of Fezzan. If 
Antiquities be his favourite purfuit, the ruins which fhadow the 
cottages 
