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On the State ofSlavery in Muhamedan Africa Page 219

The Plague of Locusts - - - - 221

Their incredible Destruction. — Used as Food. —

Remarkable Instance of their destroying every Green Herb on one Side of a River, and not on the other.

On the Influence of the great Principle of Christianity an

the Moors ------ 224«

Of the Propagation of Christianity in Africa. —

Causes that prevent it. — The Mode of promoting it is

through a friendly and commercial Intercourse with the

Natives. — Exhortation to Great Britain to attend to

the Intercourse with Africa.— Danger of the French

colonizing Senegal, and supplanting us, and thereby

depreciating the Value of our West-India Islands.

Interest ofMoney - - - - - 237

Application of the Superftux of Property or Capital.

Plan for the gradual Civilisation of Africa - 24?7

On the Commercial Intercourse with Africa, thcough

the Sahara and Ashantee.

Prospectus of a Plan for forming a North African or Sudan Company : to be instituted for the Purpose of

establishing an extensive Commerce mth, and laying

open to British Enterprise^ all the Interior Regions of North Africa - - - - - 25

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Appendix to the foregoing Prospectus, being an Epitome of the Trade carried on by Great Britain and

the European States in the Mediterranean, indirectly

with Timbivctoo, the Commercial Depot of North Africa, and with other States of Sudan - - - 25^:

Letter from Vasco de Gama, in Elucidation of this

Plan ----- 258

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