ter above the brutes, and
brings forth its beauties as the brilliancy of the diamond is
brought forth by the hand of the polisher.

Destroy their witchcraft and idolatry, and on their ruins inculcate
the divine doctrines of Christ, and we shall soon see that they
will possess sentiments that exalt the human character, and that
nothing has contributed more to their mental degradation than the
cruel treatment of their masters in the European colonies of the
West.

VASCO DE GAMA.
467

_Cursory Observations on Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzclarence's Journal
of a Route across India, through Egypt, to England_.

Eton, 7th May, 1819.

It is remarkable, that in proportion as our mass of information
respecting the interior of Africa increases, the truth of Mr. James
Grey Jackson's account of that country, in the appendix to his
account of Marocco, &c. receives additional confirmation. Some
literary sceptics have been so far prejudiced against this author's
report as to doubt its veracity altogether; but let us see how far
the interesting report of Lieut.-Colonel Fitzclarence, in his
journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England, lately
published, corroborates Mr. Jackson's description of Timbuctoo,
published so long since as 1809.

It is to be lamented, that Jackson's African orthography is not
altogether adopted: with the superior and practical knowledge which
he evidently possesses of the African Arabic language, it cannot, I
presume, be doubted by the learned and impartial, that his
orthography is correct; and, judging from what has already
transpired, I do not hesitate to predict, that his African
orthography, from an evidence of its accuracy, will, in a few
years, be adopted throughout; although the learned world have been
ten years in correcting _Tombuctoo_ into _Timbuctoo_; the latter
468 being Mr. Jackson's orthography in his account of Marocco,
Timbuctoo, &c. published in 1809.

The late account of Mr. Bowdich's mission to Ashantee has been the
first to corroborate this author in this respect; and
Lieut.-Colonel Fitzclarence has confirmed it with this additional
observation, in his Journal of a Route, &c. page 493: "Upon
enquiring about _Timbuctoo_ the Hage laughed at our pro