508 VARIOUS LETTERS words, in the event of your favouring the public with a future edition of your New Supplement to the Encyclopasdia Britannica, any information that I can communicate to you will be very much at your service ; and you may in this and in any other respect that regards Africa freely command my services.

Observatiotis on an Historical Accou?it of Discoveries and Travels in Africa by the late John Leyden M. Z)., by Hitgh Murray, Esq, F, R. S, E.

TO HUGH MURRAY ESQ. F.R.S.E.

Sir, London, Feb. 1818. You have certainly rendered to your country a service, in the publication of " The Travels and Discoveries in Africa, of the late John Leyden," the perusal of which has been to me a fund of instruction and entertainment ; it is a most valuable work, and such a one as was wanted by the literary world, inasmuch as the judicious collection of the matter forms a most valuable epitome of African knowledge, collecting what was before distributed into many folios.

I anticipate that the information in this work, communicated to the public, will soon be circulated, and you will be called upon to supply a second edition. In the mean time, I take the liberty of submitting to your perusal a few cursory observations which I have made during the perusal of it, on the accuracy of which you may