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jCS TRAVELS IN UPPER
commerce, the sources of wealth incalculable, par-
ticularly when the canal of junction between the
Nile and the Arabian gulf, one of the most con-
siderable and useful labours of the kings of ancient
Egypt, shall be discovered and dug up afresh. The
river itself, better known in its course, will see all
the obstacles which impede its navigation disap-
pear, and will waft along without danger, and at a
small expense, gold, and the other productions
which nature forms under the burning climate of
the interior of Africa; whilst the Moor, with his
scorched visage, the unwearied broker of those sul-
try regions, shall quit the route of the coasts of
Africa, and conduct his caravans into Egypt, as
soon as he is certain of being in safety there, of
finding protection as well as abundance of the ob-
jects of which he makes his returns. Connexions
founded on commerce and on interest, but disen-
gaged from all ambition of religious conquest, the
pious mania of indiscreet missionaries, and which
has excluded the natives of Europe from an im-
mense and important country, may be formed with
the Abvssinians, whose possessions are watered by
the same river. New accumulations of wealth will
discover themselves with new nations ; and extend-
ing these connexions by degrees, the knowledge
of a part of the globe will be attained, into the bo-
som of which the heroes of antiquity, as well as
the most daring modern adventurers, have been hi-
therto unable to penetrate.
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commerce, the sources of wealth incalculable, par-
ticularly when the canal of junction between the
Nile and the Arabian gulf, one of the most con-
siderable and useful labours of the kings of ancient
Egypt, shall be discovered and dug up afresh. The
river itself, better known in its course, will see all
the obstacles which impede its navigation disap-
pear, and will waft along without danger, and at a
small expense, gold, and the other productions
which nature forms under the burning climate of
the interior of Africa; whilst the Moor, with his
scorched visage, the unwearied broker of those sul-
try regions, shall quit the route of the coasts of
Africa, and conduct his caravans into Egypt, as
soon as he is certain of being in safety there, of
finding protection as well as abundance of the ob-
jects of which he makes his returns. Connexions
founded on commerce and on interest, but disen-
gaged from all ambition of religious conquest, the
pious mania of indiscreet missionaries, and which
has excluded the natives of Europe from an im-
mense and important country, may be formed with
the Abvssinians, whose possessions are watered by
the same river. New accumulations of wealth will
discover themselves with new nations ; and extend-
ing these connexions by degrees, the knowledge
of a part of the globe will be attained, into the bo-
som of which the heroes of antiquity, as well as
the most daring modern adventurers, have been hi-
therto unable to penetrate.
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