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Still his proper sphere is limited to the appreciation of physical influences. The historian measures the influence of a great warrior. The ethnologist inquires whether the American of New England can be acclimatized to the intertropical influences of Brazil.

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NOTE.

Translation and Transliteration (_Metagraphy_) of the specimens of--

A.

_The Vei writing_ (syllabic).

Amu a mo sa Rora fa vala a ro ya ya deng mu ulu ru Vai ke _And he man send Rora father to he said oh oh child who begotten in Vei this_

a na niye a ro i ni mo sa a bina kilafa gboluye ro mo mu la _he come here he say you must man send him fetch back book say man who go_

ke a wa tang Balaka mo ngo a Rora fa tala. _this his -- name Balaka -- ---- he Rora father met._

B.

_The Arrow-headed._

Iyam Fráda aduruj-iya awathá athaha adam Khsháyathia amiya _Hic Phraates mendacium-dixit ita dicebat Ego rex sum_

Marguwa. _Margianæ._

_The powers of the Tuarick Alphabet._

1=w, 2=n, 3=gh, 4=l, 5=y, 6=t, 7=b, 8=kh, 9=r, 10=d, 11=k, 12=m, 13=z, 14=th, 15=sh, 16=nn, 17=kk.