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to be expected that the three firſt Sorts ſhould make good Obſervers; and as to thoſe of the laſt, though they were not like the reſt, liable to Prejudices of Profeſſion, we may conclude that they are too much taken up with the Duties of their ſublime Vocation, to deſcend to Reſearches which ſeem to be merely curious, and which would interfere with the more important Labours to which they devote themſelves. Beſides, to preach the Goſpel with Succeſs, Zeal alone is ſufficient, God gives the reſt; but to ſtudy Men, Talents are requiſite which God has not engaged to give any Man, and which do not always fall to the Share of Saints. We cannot open a Book of Voyages without falling upon Deſcriptions of Characters and Manners; but it muſt appear very ſurprizing that theſe Travellers, who have deſcribed ſo many things, ſay nothing that every Reader was not already very well acquainted with; and had not Senſe enough to obſerve at the other End of the Globe more than what they might have eaſily ſeen without ſtirring out of their own Street; and that thoſe real Features which diſtinguiſh Nations, and ſtrike every judicious Eye, have almoſt always