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such a memorial of this very unhappy race; and it is possible may, from his general acquaintance with the languages of the Western islands of the Pacific, be enabled to trace some analogies between them and the Australian, which may indicate a common origin and structure. There is still no explanation that I have yet met with of the peculiarity which in 1835 struck the Bishop of London in your former publication: that is the extraordinary number of syllables in the words, and their consequent great length: so dissimilar, as his Lordship remarked, to the ordinary character of a primitive language. My sad apprehension is that when the people of England
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