sea. period of the earth's history. Finally, Dr Livingstone alludes to some coast-deposits with shells like those now inhabiting the If the shells form groups identical with those now living, we should call the deposits containing them "raised beaches." But to determine their exact age, would require long and very nice work. us. All thanks and honour to the Author for what he has told He has done wonders when we consider his many interruptions; his periods of exhaustion; his rough untaught companions who required his constant care; his enormous labours; his daily observations with the sextant; his hourly remarks recorded in his journal; his simple love of truth that allows him not to swell his narrative with hypotheses; his exertions of medical skill in all times of need; his life of purity, and his daily lessons of love to those who were around him. They loved him and would have died for him; being strongly affected by that kind of instinctive sympathy by which even a poor untaught savage is drawn towards one who is brave, and kind, and good1. 1 About the time he left England a pamphlet* was printed by Dr Livingstone on the languages spoken by the Natives of South Africa. I have not yet had time to read this work with care; and its matter is foreign to the more immediate objects of this letter. Since this Postscript was in type, I have learnt that the Publisher (Mr Murray) has now supplied the Missionary Travels in South Africa with a very good Index, for which every reader will be grateful. [* A digest of this pamphlet is given in the appendix at pp. 250-268, under the title "Sichuana Language."-W. Monk.] LECTURE I. Delivered in the Senate-House before the Members of the University of Cambridge, on Friday, the 4th of December, 1857; Dr Philpott, Master of St Catharine's College, Vice-Chancellor, in the Chair. W DR LIVINGSTONE SAID: HEN I went to Africa about seventeen years ago I resolved to acquire an accurate knowledge of the native tongues; and as I continued, while there, to speak generally in the African languages, the result is that I am not now very fluent in my own; but if you will excuse my imperfections under that head, I will endeavour to give you as clear an idea of Africa as I can. If you look at the map of Africa you will discover the shortness of the coast-line, which is in consequence of the absence of deep indentations of the sea. This is one reason why the interior of Africa has remained so long unknown to the rest of the world. Another reason is the unhealthiness of the coast, which seems to have reacted upon the disposition of the people, for they are very unkindly, and opposed to |