this
advantage to an extent that no other European ever was, by a
practical, and even critical knowledge of the general language of
the country,--the African Arabic. To these Mr. Jackson added an
ardent spirit of research, an industry which neglected no
opportunity, a caution to compare, a judgment to discriminate, and
457 a firmness to decide. Who, that weighs these things, can doubt the
accuracy of his intelligence respecting Sudan? I even regard his
orthography as the standard of correctness, and am surprised that
any person should continue to write Timbuctoo instead of Timbuctoo,
or Fez instead of Fas.

I am inclined to believe that Adams has been at Timbuctoo, though I
do not consider it as proved; but, supposing that he has, and that
I wished to become acquainted with that city, would I apply for
information to an illiterate slave, who was confined within narrow
precincts? Or would I rely upon the united testimony of twenty
persons of education, who had each a wider field of observation?

I have read "Jackson's Account of Marocco" twice through, at
different periods, with great attention; and I do most heartily
join in the confidence expressed by the enlightened and judicious
author, that, in proportion as the interior of Africa shall be more
known, the truth of his account of it will be made evident.

CATHERINE HUTTON.

_Hints for the Civilisation of Barbary, and Diffusion of Commerce_.

March 16, 1818.

Algiers, and the territory belonging to it, is governed by despotic
Turks, the refuse of the Ottoman troops; who maintain their power
458 over the Moors and Arabs of the plains (who are the cultivators of
the country), and over the Berebbers (who are the aborigines of the
country), or inhabitants of the mountains of Atlas, which terminate
this sovereignty on the south, and divide Algiers from
Bled-al-Jereed. The first principle of this barbarous and
sanguinary government, according io an African adage, is to
"_Maintain the arm of power, by making streams qf blood flow,
without intermission, around the throne!_" This country,--the
government of which reflects disgrace on Christendom, which has
been, during many ages the scourge of Christian mariners, and of
all who navigate the Medit