2o6 CONCLUSIONS SUGGESTED BY 
would derive from a fimilar trafiic, conduced as is here propofed, 
would be fucli as few commercial adventures have ever been 
found to yield. That no difficulties v/ill attend the execution 
of the Plan, the general hiftory of new undertakings forbids us 
to believe ; but as far as the climate and religion of the Negros 
are in queilion, there feems to be little difcouragement ; for the 
long defcent of the rivers is a proof that the elevation of the in- 
land country is raifed above the level of the coall:, and confequent- 
ly that the climate is much more temperate, and probably more 
falubrious : and while the Narrative of the Shereef announces 
that the Merchant is confidered by the Negro as the general 
friend of Mankind, common experience convincingly fliews 
that, in the judgement of the Pagan, the Crefcent and the Crofs 
are objects of equal indifference ; and that the comparative v/el- 
come of the MufTelman and of the Chriflian depends on their 
Merchandize rather than their Creed, 
As little difcouragement is fuggefced by a view of the pur^ 
chafable goods of which the natives are poffefTed ; for, inde- 
pendently of their cotton, which in all the interior nations is 
defcribed as of common manufadure, and therefore as of gene- 
ral growth, their mines of gold (the improveable poiTefiion of 
many of the Inland States) will furniili, to an unknovv^n, and 
probably 
