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If My Sentiments Should Be Required Concerning The Effect Which A Discontinuance Of That Commerce Would Produce On The Manners

Of the natives, I should have no hesitation in observing, that in the present unenlightened state of their minds, my

Opinion is, the effect would neither be so extensive or beneficial, as many wise and worthy persons fondly expect.

CHAPTER XXIII.

_Of gold-dust, and the manner in which it is collected. - Process of washing it. - Its value in Africa, - Of ivory. - Surprise of the Negroes at the eagerness of the Europeans for this commodity. - Scattered teeth frequently picked up in the woods. - Mode of hunting the elephant. - Some reflections on the unimproved state of the country, &c._

Those valuable commodities, gold and ivory, (the next objects of our inquiry,) have probably been found in Africa from the first ages of the world. They are reckoned among its most important productions in the earliest records of its history.

It has been observed, that gold is seldom or never discovered, except in _mountainous_ and _barren_ countries. Nature, it is said, thus making amends in one way, for her penuriousness in the other. This, however, is not wholly true. Gold is found in considerable quantities throughout every part of Manding; a country which is indeed hilly, but cannot properly be called mountainous, much less barren. It is also found in great plenty in Jallonkadoo, (particularly about Boori,) another hilly, but by no means an infertile country. It is remarkable, that in the place last mentioned, (Boori,) which is situated about four days' journey to the south-west of Kamalia, the salt market is often supplied, at the same time, with rock-salt from the Great Desert, and sea-salt from the Rio Grande; the price of each, at this distance from its source, being nearly the same; and the dealers in each, whether Moors from the north, or Negroes from the west, are invited thither by the same motives, that of bartering their salt for gold.

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