in the heart of Asia, spread its branches and
blossoms over the western and southern tracts of the same continent,
and expanded its crown over Europe. In Egypt alone it possessed a
river-system, so formed as to favor the development of similar
productions. Die Erdkunde von Aslen, von Carl Ritter. 2. Band.
Einleitung. Sec.24, 25. Berlin, 1832."--_Pritchard, Researches into the
Physical History of Mankind. Third Edit._ Vol. ii., p. 354.

[D] "Was it not for the manifestation of this brighter era, and the
realization of its promised blessings, that all else which preceded it
was overruled by divine Providence, as subservient and preparatory?
All things being now ready, there began to spring up in the bosom of
the British churches, a wide and simultaneous sense of the solemn
responsibility under which they had been laid by the events of
Providence, to avail themselves of so favorable an opening for the
diffusion of the gospel throughout the eastern world. Men, qualified
to undertake the high commission, must be sent across the ocean--and
have not the toils, and perils, and successes, of Vasco de Gama, and
other navigators, opened up a safe and easy passage? That their
labours might pervade the country, and strike a deep and permanent
root into the soil, they must be delivered from the caprices of savage
tyranny, and the ebullitions of heathen rage; and have not our Clives
and our Wellingtons wrested the rod of power from every wilful despot;
and our Hastings and our Wellesleys thrown the broad shield of British
justice and British protection alike over all? In order that they
might the more effectually adapt their communications to the
peculiarities of the people, they must become acquainted with the
learned language of the country, and through it, with the real and
original sources of all the prevailing opinions and observances,
sacred and civil. And have not our Joneses and our Colebrookes
unfolded the whole, to prove subservient to the cause of the Christian
philanthropist? In this way have our navigators, our warriors, our
statesmen, and our literati, been unconsciously employed, under an
over-ruling Providence, as so many pioneers, to prepare the way for
our Swartzes, our Buchanans, our Martins, and our Careys."--_Duff's
India and India Missions._

[E] The relative proportions of starch and gluten in rice, wheat, and
other seeds, not only confirm the views respecting design, in
determining their geographical distrib