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 However, as they were at once both Geometricians and Philoophers, we cannot conider as altogether unknown thoe Regions which have been een and decribed by a Condamine and a Maupertuis. The Jeweller Chardin, who travelled like Plato, has left nothing unaid concerning Peria; China eems to have been well urveyed by the Jeuits. Kempfer gives a tolerable Idea of the little he aw in Japan. Except what thee Relations tell us, we know nothing of the Inhabitants of the Eat Indies, frequented merely by Europeans more intent upon filling their Pockets with Money than their Heads with ueful Knowledge. All Africa and its numerous Inhabitants, equally ingular in Point of Character and Colour, till remain unexamined; the whole Earth is covered with Nations of which we know nothing but the Names; and yet we et up for Judges of Mankind! Suppoe a Montequieu, a Buffon, a Diderot, a Duclos, a d'Alembert, a Condillac, or Men of that Stamp, engaged in a Voyage for the Intruction of their Countrymen, oberving and decribing with all that Attention and Exactnes they are Maters of, Turky, Egypt, Barbary, the Empire of Morocco, Guinea, the Land of the Caffres, the interior