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Kosciusko , the venerable Polish Patriot , who resided for some time in America , bequeathed 20 , 000 dollars , to be appropriated to the amelioration of the condition of the Blacks in the United States . His administrators had neglected
to carry the provision into effect ; but the affairs being now adjusted , the sum has been assigned to the Colonization Society , who have resolved to purchase a farm between Baltimore and Washington , with accommodations for 200 persons , at which IMack' and Coloured children will be
received to be trained for the Society ' s colony . Similar establishments are anticipated in other parts of the Union .
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Intelligence . — The late Dr . Oudney , the African Traveller . 633
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inteiior of Northern Africa . His journals and papers , which must be extremely interesting , Ite has recommended to the care * attdjrevision of ^ Mr ; Barrow , of the Admiralty . ^ ^ bt lmic ^ iate ; cau ^ e of % his death opens to owr ^ viewra new and asto - i } the hy of
nisy&lg ^ fesrture » geograp interior Africa , Instead of burning sands and a i country arid from heat * we leaf 6 that "the cold was so severe that 4 fr froze the water skins to * a , solid mass . The . part where this took place , ? i £ fontter * accounts from these travellers be corfefqf , is In afeojtit IZxiegl N . lat . It is scarcely
neeessary to observe , that this degree of cold can ^ nlyrtake place in that parallel from a * very ..- .. great elevation , and which very eleVatedv country , while it bars , the pro ^ ess ^ f the Niger to the eastward and to tfe f ^ Ue of Egy |) t , must give birth , to innumerable powerful streams , which will tettdjto * 9 < veft , not decrease its stream as it flows eastward aud southward .
Considering this , we are at no loss to account for the mighty floods which enter the Atlantic , in the Bights of Benin and Biafra . > -LeoAfricaiius told u « , that the couutry of Zegzeg , situated about this part of Africa , was exceedingly cold , but his narrative was treated with ridicule .
Subsequent travellers gave us ^ similar reports , but they were laughed at , and . the low swamps which absorbed the Niger were placed where we find a country so elevated as in 12 deg . N . iat . to be visited by frost in December equal to any we feel in this parallel of latitude . On the
summit of the Blue Mountains in Jamaica , in 13 deg « N . lat ., and at an elevation of 8000 feet above the level of the sea ^ frost is altogether unknown . From this we may judge of the great elevation of that part of Africa where Dr . Oudney died . Before frost could be felt to such a
degree , the elevation in 12 deg . N * Jat . would probably exceed 14 , 000 feet above the level of the sea . Captain Laing ascertained - \ that the sources of < . the Niger do not exceed 1500 feet above the level of thei - ^ lan tic . Its passage eastward , therefore , to the Niife > may be set down
as physically impossible . . •*¦' Extract of a Letter from Lieut . Clapperton to Mr . Cdmul JVarrington t dated Ifano > Feb : 2 * 1 « 24 . " The melancholy task has fallen to me to report to -you the ever-to-be-la * men ted death of my friend Dr . Walter
Oudney . We left Kuka on the 14 th of December , 1823 , and by easy journeys arrived at Bedukarfea , the westei ^ most town in the kingdom of Bornou . During this part of the journey he was recovering
streugth very fast ; but on leaving Bedukarfea , and entering the Beder territory o » i thejkight of Ufa 26 th and morning of the 27 th , we had such an intense cold that tjie water was frozen in the dishes ,
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and the water skins as hard as boards . Here ^ the poor iJoctor got a severe cold , and continued to grow weaker every | fay . At this time hV tpl 4 me , when he feft Kuka , he expected ^ iiis disorder would allow him to perform all his country ex *
pected from him ; t ) iit that now his d ^ atfi was neir ; arid he requested me to ( 3 ^ - liver his papers to iLord Bathurst , and to say he wislied Mr . Banow might haVe the arrangement of them ^ if agreeable ta the wishigs of his JUordshi |> . On tl ^ 2 d of 1824
" e January , ,, we ? arrived at the city of Katagum , where we remained taill the 10 th , partly to see if the Doctor , by stayinga feV days , would gain a little sti-engtli to pursue his ' journey . On leaving Katagum he rode a camell as he was too weak to ride his
horse . We proceeded on our roadJfb $ ten miles that day , and then Jhalted ; and , on the following day , five miles farther , to a town called Murmur . On the morning of the 12 | b he ordered the camels to be loaded at daylight , and drank a cup of coffee , and I assisted him to dress . When the camels were loaded , with the assistance of his servant and me , he came out of his tent . I saw then that
the hand of death was upon him , and that he had not an hour to live . I begged him to return to his tent and lie down , which he did , and I sat down beside him $ he expired in about half an hQur after , , " I sent immediately to the Governor
of the town to acquaint him with what had happened , and to desire he would point out a spot where 1 might bury my fiiend 5 and also to have people to wash the body and dig the grave , which was speedily complied with . I had dead clothes made from some turbans that
were intended as presents ; and as we travelled as Englishmen and servants of his Majesty , I considered it my most indispensable duty to read the Service of the Dead over the grave according to the rites of the Church of England , which happily was not objected to ; but , on the contrary , I . was paid a good deal of respect for so doing . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 633, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/57/
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