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 LAITGUAGE AlO) LITEBATTJItE. 209 ceived for many years past. Mr. Hazlewood's Dictionary is a work of great pains, and both the selection and the arrangement of his materials are such as might be looked for from the author of the Fijian Grammar. Appended to the Dictionary are two important tracts ; the one being a list of the Fijian Islands, with their bearings and distances from either Mbau or Lakemba, so far as they are known ; the other containing the names of the leading objects belonging to the natural history of the country, as plants, fishes, insects, and the like. With a language such as has now been described, and with the bless- ing of God upon the continued labours of Christian Missionaries among a people so strong-minded, so enterprising, and so versatile as are the subjects of this volume, there is no reason why Fijian literature should not by and by take rank with the noblest cultures, to which the Gospel is at present shaping the genius and heart of so many heathen popula- tions of our globe.