The slave trade has prevailed to a considerable extent on the Eastern Coast of Africa, and the adjacent islands, now under consideration. This inhuman traffic has been, in a great measure, suppressed by the British government and the native powers of Madagascar.

In this quarter there are but few missionary stations, and these we must notice but very briefly. A large share of the missionary effort in Europe is itinerant, and cannot, of course, compose a part of our survey, and the introductory remarks

which we intended to occupy this place must be deferred to the close of the eleventh volume.

This quater of the world contains a population variously estimated, from 250,000,000 to 600,000,000. Paganism and Mahometanism are the prevailing religions, and notwithstanding the numerous missionary stations which have been established, the measures hitherto adopted for spreading the Christian religion have been of rather a preparatory kind. The great work of translating the Bible into various languages has been commenced, and carried on with a zeal and perseverance becoming the magnitude of the subject. To China, the most populous country in the world, ROBERT MORRISON has given the whole Bible in their native tongue. HENRY MARTYN left an imperishable monument of his talents and burning zeal in his Master's cause, in what he did for Persia; and CAREY, MARSHMAN, and WARD, in rendering the Scriptures into nearly thirty languages of peninsula India, have achieved a more glorious work than time can measure.

Under this division of our Survey, we shall place all that part of Asia West of the Eastern boundary of Persia, and South of the Caucasus mountains; embracing

Turkey in Asia, Persia, Arabia, and several Islands in the Mediterranean sea, and the Persian and Arabian Gulfs.

The first man and the first woman were created in Asia, and from them has the whole world been peopled. Here were the oracles of truth delivered to God's covenant people, and here did JESUS CHRIST accomplish the work of our redemption. Hence this country will be viewed by the Christian with peculiar feelings; and when he realizes that the mighty desolations foretold in prophecy have actually come upon the once beautiful cities, he will be incited to use his utmost efforts to “build the old wastes," to "raise up the former desolations," to "repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations" He will no longer view foreign missions as visionary schemes, but will contribute of his substance, and offer earnest prayer "that the mountain of the Lord's house" may" be established in the top of the mountains, and exalted above the hills;" and that "all nations" may "flow unto it."

JERUSALEM.

The ancient and celebrated city of David, the capital of the ancient Judea, and the modern Palestine. Long. 35° 20' E Lat. 31° 47′ 47′′ N. This city has been distinguished by many me. morable events, but especially by the death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who was crucified on Mount Calvary, a hill on the north side of the city, on Friday, the third of April, at three o'clock in the afternoon. AMER. BOARD OF MISSIONS.

1820.

Pliny Fisk, Jonas King, missionaries.

"It has been remarked as a singular fact, illustrating the wonderful moral revolutions which diversify the history of man, that the first Protestant missionary to Jerusalem went from a land of which the Apostles had no knowledge." Messrs. Fisk and King, with the co-operation of Messrs. Temple, Goodell & Bird, at Malta are labouring to revive the Gospel in Palestine. We must refer the reader to other parts of our volume for detailed accounts of their operations.

LONDON JEWS SOCIETY. Lewis Way, Joseph Wolff, missionaries.

Mr. Way, with a fortune of more than one million of dollars, is actively engaged in devising liberal and extensive plans for the moral benefit of the Jews. Mr. Wolff, a convert from Judaism, is also labouring for the same important object. They have projected the establishment of a college on Mount Lebanon, for the education of the children of Europeans on the coast. Mr. Wolff has met with a kind and encouraging recep tion from Jews of all ranks.

At Smyrna, Aleppo, Damascus, and various other places, these missionaries, and the representatives and agents of the Church Missionary Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society, have

distributed large numbers of the Bible, and Tracts in various languages. The journals of the Rev. William Jowett, the Rev. Henry Levees, the Rev. Jas. Connor, and the Rev. Dr. Pinkerton, and the very valuable communications which from time to time they have laid before the public, have been of the most important service in making known the condition of the ancient and fallen Churches in this quarter, and enabling the Christian public, in more favoured countries, to devise the best means of reviving their low estate.

What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

PERSIA.

An extensive country of Asia.

We have placed Persia in our Survey, though there is not, at present, any Protestant mission established there, because "the entrance on this great work [the enlightning of their minds] which was made by the late illustrious Henry Martyn, and the bold and able attack which he made on Islamism at its headquarters in Shiraz, will be held on record in that country to the latest age; and the time will come when his memory will be cherished among its natives, as the primeval benefactor of their country." The Persians are said to be the most polite, and the most learned nation of the East. Martyn was instrumental in the conversion of a Persian nobleman; he translated the New Testament into Persian-and Messrs. Glen and M'Pherson, at Astrachan, have a knowledge of the language, and are printing and circulating Tracts among the na tives.