Malabar, and Coromandel, till you come to 
Pondicherry, Madras, and fo on to Calcutta. 
Hence, paffing to the fouth of the Equator, 
we fail between the iflands of Sumatra, and 
Java; leaving the Dutch fettlement of Ba- 
tavia on the right, we proceed directly north 
to Canton in China, and thence to Pekiti 
at the northern extremity of that empire. 
All thefe are places with the names of which 
you have been long acquainted, and whofe 
refpective (ituations, I dare fay, you will 
now remember. The feveral clutters of 
iflands in this map, are thofe of Japan, of 
Sonda, the Philippins, the Ladrones, the 
Moluccas orSpice-hlands and the Moldivias. 
That part of India with which we have any 
connection, lies, you obferve, within the 
Tropic 3 that is, within 23 degrees and a 
half of the Equator: confequently the inha- 
bitants have a vertical fun twice during their 
fummer, and confequently the climate muft 
be exceflively hot. This, I think, is all that 
is necefTary to be remembered of Afiaj we 
therefore now change the fcene. 
Africa, you obferve, forms a very confi- 
derable part of the habitable globe. It has 
hitherto been fo imperfectly explored, that 
our knowledge extends but to a fmall dif- 
tance 
