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NEW GEOGEAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS.

(By J. Scott Keltie, Librarian b.g.s.)

EUROPE.

Baedeker, K-?Belgium and Holland. Handbook for Travellers. With 12 maps and 20 plans. Ninth edition. Leipsic, Karl Baedeker; London, Dulau & Co., 1888 : 12mo., pp. lxii. and 379. Price 6 marks. [Presented by Messrs. Dulau &Co.]

[Joanne's Guides.]?Collection des Guides-Joanne. Itineraire general de la France, par Adolphe Joanne. Le Nord, avec 7 cartes et 11 plans. Deuxieme edition. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1878: 12mo., pp. xxvii. and 489.

-Ditto. Ditto. Gascogne et Languedoc. 1 carte et 2 plans. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1883: 12mo., pp. xx. and 358.

-Ditto. Ditto. De la Loire a. la Gironde, Poitou et Saintonge. 3 cartes et 5 plans. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1884: 12mo., pp. xxvi. and 259.

? Ditto. Ditto. Les Pyrenees. 10 cartes, 6 vues a. vol d'oiseau, 8 panoramas et une projection de la Chaine des Pyrenees. Edition de 1885, avec des ren- seignenents pratiques mis au courant en 1887. Paris, Hachette et Cie.: 12mo., pp. lxxxix. and 605.

-Ditto. Ditto. Bretagne, avec un Appendice pour Iles Anglaises de Jersey et de Guernesey. 8 cartes et 11 plans. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1886: 12mo., pp. xxxvii. and 483.

-Ditto. Ditto. Auvergne et Centre. 9 cartes et 5 plans. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1886 : 12mo., pp. xxxix. and 352.

-Ditto. Ditto. Normandie. 7 cartes et 18 plans. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1887 : 12mo., pp. xl. and 514.

-Ditto. Franche-Comte et Jura. 5 cartes et 3 plans. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1888 : 12mo., pp. xlvi. and 384.

-Ditto. Algerie et Tunisie, par Louis Piesse. 9 cartes et 16 plans. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1888: 12mo., pp. xc. and 492.

Ditto. De Paris a Constantinople. 8 plans, 3 cartes, et 1 panorama. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1886: 12mo., pp. xxxix. and 342.

Ditto. Grece. I. Athenes et ses Environs. 4 cartes, 10 plans. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1888 : 12mo., pp. lxxxiii. and 216.

Ditto. Etats du Danube et des Balkans. Uongrie meridionale, Adriatique, Dalmatie, Montenegro, Bosnie et Herzegovine. 17 cartes, 12 plans. Paris, Hachette et Cie., 1888 : 12mo., pp. li. and 279.

Jukes-Browne, A. J.?-The Building of the British Isles: a Study in Geographical Evolution. London, Bell & Sons, 1888: 8vo., pp. x. and 343. Price 7s. Gd. [Presented by the Publishers.]

The object of this volume, the author states, is the geological history of the British Islands, regarded from a geotectonic and geographical point of view; that is to say, it does not deal with the rock-groups of which our islands consist, so much as with the physical conditions under which they were formed, the rocks themselves being described only so far as is necessary for ascertaining whence their component materials were derived, in order to form some con? ception of the relative position of land and water during each of the successive periods of geological time. As Mr. Jukes-Browne says, the restoration of the geography of any past period is a problem of great difficulty, and the more remote that period is from the present, the greater does the difficulty become. The author gives much more space to the Neozoie period than does Professor



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Hull in his volume on the subject. Tbere is no doubt that a knowledge of the geography of the past helps us to understand that of the present, and to this view Mr. Jukes-Browne's interesting work will prove highly suggestive.

Liegard, Stephan,?La Cote d'Azur. Paris, Maison Quantin [1888] : 4to., pp. 430. Price 20s.

This is one of those livres de luxe in the production of which the French are unsurpassed. It deals with the Mediterranean coast of France and the Riviera, and is of value from a geographical standpoint for its excellent illustrations of towns and landscapes of that region, and its description of their actual conditions.

Uslar, Baron P. IL?Etnographiya Kavkaza. Yazykoznaniye. Chechenskii yazyk.?Ethnography of the Caucasus. Philology pt. ii. The Language of the Chechens. Published by the Educational Department of the Caucasus, Tiflis, 1888: pp. viii., 52, 2iG, and 111.

In our March number we noticed the first part of the late Baron Uslars linguistic studies relating to the Abkhasian language. The present volume is the second issue, and deals with the Chechenian language. It also contains the late author's letters and a translation in Russian of A. Schiefner's ' Tschetschen- zische Studien,' as well as some tales and proverbs from the Chechenian, edited by A. Bartolomei. The whole work is edited by M. R. Zavadsky, and forms an excellent handbook to any one desirous of acquainting himself with a language spoken by a people whose numbers have been estimated at 140,000, inhabiting the northern slopes of the Caucasus in Western Daghestan.?[E. D. M.]

Zapiski Imperatorskago Russkago Geographicheskago obshestva. Po obschei geographii.?Memoirs of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, vol. xvii. part 3; vol. xviii. parts 1, 3, and 4. St. Petersburg, 1888.

Yol. xvii. part 3 is a collection of meteorological observations of agricultural importance in Russia in 1885 and 1886, by A. J. Voiekof. This is a first attempt in Russia at tabulating information on the weather, having an agri? cultural economical aspect, and was initiated by the Meteorological Commission of the Russian Geographical Society. A general comparison of the results obtained by the returns for the two years is added by the learned editor.

Yol. xviii. part 1, pp. 55, contains barometrical observations at distant meteorological stations, and during journeys by R. N. Savelief.

Yol. xviii. part 3, pp. 22, with a plate, is a study by S. Y. Rauner on the methods employed in Western Europe of arresting the movement of drift-sands, and planting them with trees. This question is one of great importance in Russia, where, not only in its Asiatic possessions, but in the European pro? vinces as well, much loss is sustained by the movements of drift-sands; for instance, in the governments of Kief and Chernigof, at the mouth of the Dnieper, the Aleshkof Sands cover about 50,000 acres, and are constantly burying the gardens and cottages of the inhabitants, while farther east, in the government of Astrakhan, and then again in Central Asia, their disastrous effects may be seen on a grand scale.

Yol. xviii. part 4, pp. 16, with table, contains the results of a comparison of normal barometers in a few of the principal meteorological observatories in Europe, by P. J. Bronnof.?[E. B. M.3

ASIA.

[Arabia].?Mekka, von Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, mit Bilder-Atlas. Herausgege? ben von "Het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal- Land- en Yolkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie te 's-Gravenhage." I. Die Stadt und Ihre Herren. Haag, Martinus Nijhoff, 1888: 8vo., pp. xxiii. and 228. [Presented by His Excellency the Minister for the Netherlands.]

Dr. Snouck Hurgronje's volume, reeently issued at the Hague in the German language, comprises the first part of a work on Mekka, which promises to be somewhat unique in its completeness: for although the already published



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matter throws little more light on the subject treated than afforded by Burck- hardt and later travellers of our own time?whose personal narratives are available in their integrity to the reading public, or have been utilised in encyclopsedias and books of reference?the second part will describe the inhabitant of Mekka such as he is at the present hour. The author's residence for one year in Jeddah and the holy city enables him to write with greater confidence than had he undertaken his task with the aid of book- learning only.

Four chapters, with a preface and appendix, make up the volume under notice. The first is a kind of Guide to Mekka, treating of the Masjidu'l Haram or sacred mosque and the Ka'bah, with other shrines or buildings within the walled inclosure, of which full accounts have long since been published in this country and abroad. Three chapters which follow are mainly historical, and relate to the rulers of the city from the rise of the Khalifs to within the last few years of the nineteenth century. It may here be noticed that as the word Caliphate (Khalifat) has been adopted in the English language to represent the rule or office of the Caliphs (Khalifs) of Baghdad, so the word Sharifat (German Scherifat) may be admitted in reference to the Sharifs of Mekka. The actual periods selected are from a.d. 630 to 1200 ; from a d. 1200 to 1788 ; and from 1788 to 1887 respectively. Genealogical trees, for the preparation of which the Muslim shows peculiar aptitude, are added to the text, and will be found useful to the student of Arab tribes and dynasties, though scarcely interesting to the majority of readers. Dr. Snouck Hurgronje thinks highly of Othman Pasha, the late Governor of Hijaz, and notwithstanding all that has been urged to the contrary, looks upon the European Turk as a sufficient means for carrying out the better administration of the Arabian Peninsula. We are told that the usual seat of government is at Mekka, and that it is only in the hottest season, and when there are no important affairs to suffer by the change, that His Excellency the Pasha repairs to Taif, a procedure adopted also by the High Sharif. A deputy is stationed at Jidda.

The interest of the present publication is greatly enhanced by a set of accompanying photographic illustrations. Among the seventeen specimens of the scenery, monuments, and people, are photographs of Othman Pasha, the High Sharif Annu'r-Nafik, and of sundry officials and other residents of Mekka, with their children or relatives.

LBurma.]?Indo-Burma. China Eailway Connections a Pressing Necessity. With a Few Bemarks on Communication in and with Burma, Past and Present. With a map. Blackwood & Sons, 1888: 8vo., pp. 73. [Presented by the Author.

This brochure, signed " Old Arakan," presents a serious and well-informed discussion on the subject of railway communication from Burma to China on the one hand, and India to Burma on the other. The author in the first part gives a brief sketch of our connection with Burma, and of what has been done to open it up by trade routes. He argues strongly against the railway scheme of Messrs. Colquhoun and Hallett, and asserts that our communications with China should be within British territory, and that these communications, in the interests of our Burmese territories, should be established with the least possible delay. In the second part the author gives a brief sketch of the efforts which have been made in the past to connect India with Burma. He then considers the four routes that have been proposed, with the result that he gives a preference to the route from Membo on the Irawady across the Aeng Pass to Akyab, and so north-west by Chittagong. Several other matters in connection with Burma are discussed in the brochure, which is a valuable contribution to a question of great importance.

[Danvers, P. C.]?Bengal, its Chiefs, Agents, and Govemors. [London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1888]: 8vo., pp. 22.

[India.]?A Kecord of the Expeditions against the North-west Frontier Tribes since the Annexation of the Punjab. Compiled from official sources by Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Paget, Commandant, 5th Punjab Cavalry, in 1873. Bevised and brought




up to date ,by Lieutenant A. H. Mason, e.e., in 1884. Published by Authority. London, printed by Whiting & Co. : 8vo., pp. xvi. and 679. [Presented by [the Secretary of State for India.]

While this volume has been compiled mainly from a strategical and military point of view, it contains much information collected from a variety of sources on ali the countries and peoples along the whole of the North-west Frontier. Its utility is made manifest by consulting it with reference to the Black Mountain district, where our little war is at present being waged against the Yusafzais and their neighbours. The volume is amply provided with maps from the latest surveys, and as a whole is a really useful book for geographical reference.

[Nicobars.]?Ein kurzer Besuch auf den Nicobaren. (Yon der Reise S.M. Corvette Aurcra nach Ostasien.) Geschildert von Dr. Svoboda. 8vo., pp, 26. [Presented by the Author.]

This is a reprint from the * Proceedings of the Vienna Geographical Society, giving partly the results of a visit to the Nicobar Islands in 1886, and partly containing a summary of the data collected by Dr. Man and other previous writers.

Prjevalsky, N. M.?Ot Kiachtii na istoki joltoi reki, izsledovaniye severnoi okrainii Tib6ta i put cherez Lob-nor po basseinu Tarima. From Kiachta to the sources of the Yellow river, exploration of the northern border of Tibet and route via Lob-nor along the basin of the Tarim; with three maps, twenty-nine photo- types, and three full-size illustrations. Published by the Imperial Russian Geogr. Soc, St. Petersburg, 1888 : pp. ii., iii., and 536, 4to.

In this work General Prjevalsky tells the story of his fourth expedition into Central Asia. He begins with a chapter on " the art of travel " in that country, based on his twenty years' experience, and containing many hints useful to the young traveller. The qualities necessary in the leader of an expedition, in the men composing it, supplies of all kinds, should be carefully studied in order to ensure success. Nor must less judgment and forethought be exercised in the selection of arms, ammunition, accoutrements, scientific instruments, clothing, &c. Having initiated the reader into some of the mysteries of caravan life with its daily routine, division of labour, discipline, provisioning, &c, Prjevalsky concludes his first chapter by indicating very briefly what yet remains to be done in the way of exploration in Central Asia. The regions, and they are few, as yet unexplored by Europeans, are the following:?The whole of Northern Tibet, where geographical discoveries await the traveller at every step. 2. Eastern Tibet and the Amdo country, a wild alpine region with a luxuriant flora and rich fauna. 3. Southern Tibet between Lhassa and Gartokh. These must be reckoned among the spolia opima of future explorers, but there are also other regions where further scientific investigation is much needed. The Pamir with its neighbouring Hindu-Kush and Kara-korum ranges; the Eastern Tian-shan between Karashahr and Hami, and the Western Altai from the meridian of Kobdo to the northern bend of the Yellow river; the Altyn-tagh and the Nan-shan; the mountains bordering South-eastern Mongolia, including those of Ala-shan; the Hingan range with the region to the east of it, and lastly, Northern Manchuria; all these will doubtless yield, in fit hands, scientific facts of the highest value, and he who lifts the veil which yet partially obscures them will have done a real service to geography. Chapter ii. takes us once more across the Gobi from Urga to Ala- shan. We learn, en passant, that the trade of tFrga amounts to nine millions of rubies (about one million sterling) annually, for the most part in the hands of the Chinese, and that one million pounds of tea are annually imported that way into Russia, notwithstanding the competition of the sea route via" Odessa. Having crossed the Gobi by the same route as that taken by him in returning from his first expedition in 1873, Prjevalsky proceeds through Northern Ala- shan to Din-yuan-ing (Fu-ma-fu), the seat of government of the district, where the expedition halts to rest for a week, having come 700 miles from Urga. An




excursion into the mountains, whose comparative fertility is explained by the deposits of loess brought hither by westerly winds and moistened by summer rains, is described, and an allusion made to the discovery by some workmen, while digging wells, of human habitations buried beneath about 130 feet of sand and loess, the accumulations of untold ages. Chapter iii. is devoted to Kan-sub, Kokonor, and Tsaidam, where scenes of former explorations are revisited, a new species of antelope shot and named after Cuvier the naturalist, and additions made to the collections of birds and animals. Chapters iv. and v. deal with the sources of the Hwang-ho. Here Prjevalsky's itinerary crosses that of pundit A-k, upon the inaccuracy of whose observations, as well as of the map founded on them and published by the Trigonometrical Survey Department of India, some interesting remarks are contained in a note. Before starting for the Hwang-ho, Prjevalsky divided his party, leaving seven Cossacks with the bulk of his baggage in Tsaidam, and proceeding with the remainder (fourteen men in all) to cross the mountains of Northern Tibet.

In the marshy plain of Odontala, the Sing-su-hai, or Starry Sea of the Chinese, lie the sources of the great river of whose disastrous inundations so much has reeently been heard. These sources and the two lakes formed by their collective drainage were successively visited by the Russians, and observations made to fix the latitude and height above the sea, the longitude being obtained by computing distances. Here too the author ascended a hill commanding an extensive view of plain and lakes, remarking that upon this hill sacrifices are annually offered by an embassy sent expressly from Peking to propitiate the river god, probably in the hope of preventing a recurrence of these terrible floods as well as to solicit an abundant supply of water for the hundred millions of inhabitants dependent upon it. Seven days' march from Odontala the Russians crossed the watershed between the upper waters of the Hwang-ho and Yang-tse-kiang by a pass 14,700 feet high, experiencing rigorous cold even in the month of June. They now entered a magnificent alpine region, where fresh additions were made to their herbarium. Their farthest point south was the left bank of the Di-chu (Upper Yang-tse-kiang), but having no means of crossing this river with their camels, they were obliged to turn back and retrace their steps to the lakes at the head-waters of the Hwang-ho. These lakes are fully described in the fifth chapter, which also records the attacks made on them by a band of Tangutanrobbers. The Russians safely returned to their depot in Tsaidam, and the sixth chapter opens with the second period of the expedition, when they marched through Tsaidam to the westward to undertake the geo? graphical discoveries narrated in the seventh chapter. (A full translation of this chapter has been promised for the next number of the Supplementary Papers of the R.G.S.). In the eighth chapter we follow the author across the Altyn-tagh to Lob-nor and the Tarim previously visited by him on his second journey in 1877, and described in his book, ' From Kulja across the Tian-shan to Lob-nor.' This time, however, he had ample opportunities for correcting and completing his somewhat hurried and meagre notes and observations made then. He also enters into the history and traditions of Lob and its buried cities, describing fully the inhabitants?a singularly ugly people, judging from their likenesses.

In Chapter ix. Prjevalsky relates how he spent the spring on Lob-nor shooting and observing wild fowl which visit its swamps in extraordinary numbers. In Chapters x.-xii. we follow the travellers to Keria and the oases situate along the southern border of the Tarim Desert. This was the third period of the expedition, and lasted from May to August 1885. The route taken lay along the northern foot of the Kuen Luen, and Prjevalsky gives the name "Russian" to one of its chains, christening the highest peak seen by him in honour of the late Emperor " Tsar Liberator." At the pleasant oasis of Yasulgun the Russians halted for a few days and celebrated the accomplishment of their six-thou- sandth verst of travel since leaving Kiachta, in fulfilment of a practice carried out by them of making merry, as far as circumstances would permit, at the end of every thousand versts. By the Chinese authorities on this, as on all his previous journeys, Prjevalsky was badly received. They adopted every possible means of hindering his advance and discrediting him in the eyes of the natives ?a policy, we regret to say, not unfrequently practised by Russian officials



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towards English and other travellers in civilised Bussia. Finding, however, that they had resolute men to deal with who would not brook such treatment, the Chinese ambans made their apologies. From Khoten Prjevalsky turned northward along the Khoten-daria to Aksu by the route recently travelled by Mr. Carey and the late Mr. Dalgleish (see ' Proceedings B.G.S.,' December 1887), recrossing the Eussian frontier at the Bedel Pass in the Tian-shan on the 29th October (10th November), 1885.

Besides the narrative of the journey, incidents of travel and descriptions of the country and its inhabitants, the volume contains a vast amount of botanical and zoological research, and the maps are worth studying. A separate final chapter (xiii.) is a political study by the author on the inhabitants of Central Asia, and has been translated in extenso, and published in a recent number of the 'National Beview.'?[E. D, M.]

AFBICA.

Banning, Emile.?Be Partage Politique de PAfrique d'apres les Transactions Internationales les plus rfentes (1885 a 1888). Bruxelles, Muquardt, 1888: 8vo., pp. xi. and 181. [Presented by the Author.]

This may be regarded as a supplement to the author's previous works on the partition of Africa. It is a narrative of the events and negociations which have led to the existing division of Africa among the European powers, con? taining copious extracts from official documents, protocols, correspondence, and treaties. It is useful as a record of what has been done up to the present date. The volume contains a map showing the partition, which seems to us on the whole correct. There is no authority, however, for prolonging the northern boundary of German Damaraland eastward along the Zarnbesi beyond the 20th degree E. long. In the latest Colonial Office map British South Africa is extended north to the Zarnbesi, with the 20th degree as the western frontier.

Cosson, E.?Compendium Floraa Atlanticse seu Expositio methodica plantarum omnium in Algeria necnon in regno Tunetano et imperio Maroccano hucusque notarum; ou Flore des Etats Barbaresques, Algerie, Tunisie et Maroc. Yol. II. Supplement a. la partie historique et Flore des fitats Barbaresques. Kenonculacees ?Cruciferes. Paris, Imp. Nationale, 1883-1887: 8vo., pp. cviii. and 367. Price 13s.

Kayser, GabrieL?Bibliographie d'Ouvrages ayant trait & PAfrique en general dans ses Bapports avec l'exploration et la civilisation de ces contrees depuis le commencement de lTmprimerie jusqu'a nos jours. Precede d'un Indicateur. Bruxelles, 1887 : 8vo., pp. xv. and 176.

Rankin, Daniel J,?Arab Tales translated from the Swahili Language into the Tugulu Dialect of the Makua Language, as spoken in the immediate vicinity of Mozambique. Together with comparative Yocabnlaries of Five Dialects of the Makua Language, London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 12mo., pp. xv. and 46, map. [Presented by the Author.]

Soilth Africa.?Correspondence relating to the High Commissionership in South Africa, and its separation from the Governorship of the Cape. [C.-5488.] London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1888 : foiio, pp. 22. Price 9d.

A map of South Africa in 1888, from the Zambezi to Cape Agulhas (scale 1:7,500,000), accompanies this paper.

Stevenson, James.?The Arabs in Central Africa and at Lake Nyassa. With Correspondence with H.M. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the attitude of Portugal. Glasgow, Maclehose, 1888 : 8vo., pp. xvi. and note. [Presented by the Author.]

This is a useful collection of facts concerning the doings of the Arabs in Central Africa from Livingstone's time downwards. It contains two maps by




Mr. Ravenstein: one of part of Eastern Africa shows the topographical features and European stations; the other of Equatorial Africa, shows tracks of slave caravans, districts harassed and districts depopulated by sdave hunters.

Tagliabue, E.?Dieci Anni a Massaua. Considerazioni politico-coloniali. Milano, P. B. Bellini e C, 1888 : 8vo., pp. 31.

AMERICA.

[America.]?Narrative and Critical History of America. Edited by Justin Winsor. London, Sampson Low & Co., 1888: vol. vii. part ii., United States of North America, pp. vii. and 610. Price 80s.

This volume virtually concludes the narrative of the United States, since one chapter deals with the wars of the States from 1789 to 1850. An appendix to the volume treats of territorial acquisitions and additions, and contains reproductions of several old maps and plans.

[Bolivia.]?Biblioteca Boliviana de Geografia e Historia. 1. Navigacion del Madre de Dios. Viaje del Padre Nicolas Armentia. La Paz, 1887: 8vo., pp. iv. and 230. [Presented by Senor M. Y. Ballinan of La Paz.]

The Madre de Dios is the river which crosses the north of Bolivia and joins the Beni about 80 miles before the combined rivers flow into the Madeira. In 1881-5 Padre Armentia navigated not only the Madre de Dios, but also the Beni, and traversed a large part of the country which lies between. The volume now published contains the results of the Padre's observations during his journeys on the countries, the people, products and industries. It is accompanied by a map of the region which has been executed in Rio de Janeiro.

Borsari, F.?La letteratura degl' indigeni Americani. Napoli, L. Pierro, 1888: 8vo., pp. 76. [Presented by the Author.]

[Canada.]?Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada. Alfred C. Selwyn, c.m.g., Director. Annual Report (New Series) vol. ii., 1886. Montreal, Dawson Brothers, 1887. [Presented by the Director.]

Besides the Summary Report on the operations of the Survey during 1886, the present volume contains an account of a geological examination of the northern part of Vancouver Island and adjacent coasts, by G. M. Dawson. A report on the geological structure of a portion of the Rocky Mountains, by R. G. McConnell, contains a sketch of the topography of the region dealt with. Mr. J. Tyrrell's report on Northern Alberta and portions of adjacent districts of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan also contains a good deal of topographical descrip? tion. Among other reports are:?Preliminary report of an exploration of the country between Lake Winnipeg and Hudson's Bay, by A. P. Low; on an ex? ploration of portions of the At-ta-wa-pish-kat and Albany rivers, by R. Bell; on the surface,geology of Northern New Brunswick and South-east Quebec, by R. Chalmers; notes to accompany a geological map of the northern portion of the Dominion of Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains, by George M. Dawson; statistical report of the production, value, exports and imports of minerals in Canada, by E. Coste, As usual, the report is accompanied by numerous maps bcth in the text and in a separate pocket, sections and illustrations.

Canada.]?Report of the Select Committee of the Senate appointed to inquire into the resources of the Great Mackenzie Basin. Session 1888. Printed by Order of Parliament. Ottawa, 1888: 8vo., pp. 310. [Presented by Sir Charles Tupper, Bart.]

This Report contains the results of the labours of a committee appointed by the Canadian Parliament to inquire into the resources of the Great Mackenzie Basin and the country eastward to Hudson's Bay. Apart from the conclusions which may be drawn from the evidence as to the availability of the immense region involved for settlement and cultivation, the report contains a great mass No. XI.?Nov. 1888.] 3 d




of valuable information as to the features and character of the northern regions of the Dominion. The area dealt with covers 1,260,000 square statute miles, exclusive of the islands in the Arctic Archipelago. The coast-line of the area is said to cover 5000 miles, over one-half of which is accessible to sealing and whaling craft. There is an immense navigable lacustrine area, and, it is stated by the committee, a river navigation of 2750 miles, which, with the lake navigation, may be connected with Victoria and Vancouver, by way of the mouth of the Mackenzie, the Arctic Ocean, and Behring Strait and Sea. The most startling conclusions, however, drawn by the committee from the evidence are, that in the region there is a possible area of 656,000 square miles fitted for potatoes, 407,000 square miles suited for barley, and 316,000 square miles suited for wheat. There is a pastoral area of 860,000 square miles, and 274,000 square miles of this, including prairie, may be considered as arable land. About 400,000 square miles is adapted for cultivation or for cattle-feeding. The excel- lence of the pasturage and of other growths is dwelt upon by the committee, and the richness of pine-trees, forests, and mines. Even when it is admitted that the areas above given overlap, it is quite evident that the conclusions drawn by the committee must be taken with great reserve; they are founded on quite in- adequate observation and experiment. No doubt much of the land referred to may be made available for settlement, but before this is attempted much more precise data should be obtained. Meantime the Beport, with its maps, may be accepted as an important contribution from some hundreds of actual observers to a knowledge of the Great Mackenzie Basin.

Hooper, E. D. M.?The Forests of the West Indies and British Honduras. Foiio. [Presented by the Author.]

A series of Beports upon the Forests of Jamaica (map); Honduras; St. Vincent; St. Lucia; Grenada and Carriacou; Tobago (map); and Antigua (map).

Hugues, Luigi.?Sul nome "America." Seconda Memoria con un'Appendice. Boma, 1888 : 8vo., pp. 40. [Presented by the Author.]

Latzina, F.?Geografia de la Bepublica Argentina. Buenos Aires, Lagouane, 1888 : 8vo., pp. xii. and 758. [Presented by the Author.]

This work has been compiled by Mr. Latzina as a text-book for the higher and normal schools of the Argentine Bepublic. The work is based on the most trustworthy original authorities, and seems to be compiled with great care and intelligence. As a compendium of the geography, physical and political, it will be found useful. It includes a number of maps executed in Paris.

[North America.]?Pierre Margry. Memoires et Documents pour servir a l'histoire des Origines Francaises des Pays d'OutreMer. Decouvrements et ?tablissements des Francais dans l'Ouest et dans le Sud de l'Amerique Septentrionale (1679-1754). Tome 6me- Paris, Maisonneuve et Leclerc, 1888: 8vo., pp. xix. and 759. Price 16s.

The present volume of this very valuable series of original documents relating to the exploration and settlement of North America, deals, in the first section, with enterprises on the north and south of Lake Superior, and the country of the Sioux and Assiniboias. The second section, covering 400 pages, contains documents relating to the exploration of the western affluents of the Mississippi, and the opening up of communications with Old and New Mexico. The third section, 150 pages, refers to the coast of Lake Superior and the Missouri, as far as the Bocky Mountains; and the last, 75 pages, to projects of settlement on the east of the Mississippi.

[N.W. America.]?U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.?Methods and Besults.? Voyages of Discovery and Exploration on the N.W. Coast of America from 1539 to 1603. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1887: 4to., pp. 155-253.

Professor George Davidson, in this appendix to the Geodetic Survey Beport for 1886, has collated his,own observations on the N.W. Coast of America




with the narratives of Ferrelo, Cabrillo, IJlloa and Yizcaino, Drake, and other early navigators, with the result that he has been able to identify many places mentioned in the latter and clear up several obscure passages.

Petitot, Emile.?Traditions Indiennes du Canada Nord-Ouest (1862-1882). Textes Originaux et Traduction Litterale. Alencon, 1888 : 8vo., pp. vi. and 446. [Pre? sented by the Author.]

The Abbe Petitot has done good service to ethnology and philology in bringing together these traditions and folk-lore of the people among whom he dwelt so long, with a French translation alongside.

AUSTRALASIA.

Favenc, Ernest.?The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888. Sydney, Turner & Henderson, 1888: 8vo., pp. xv. and 474. [Presented by Sir Saul Samuel, k.c.m.g.]

Mr. Favenc's volume is issued under the auspices of the Governments of the Australian Colonies. It deserves this compliment, for it bears evidence of having been compiled with conscientious care from State documents, private papers, and other authentic sources. The exploration of Australia has been carried out mainly under private enterprise, and it is therefore a matter of con? siderable difficulty to obtain authentic information of the results. Mr. Favenc seems to have overcome this difficulty as well as it could be done, and the result is a work which may be taken as the authority on the subject, and which is, moreover, highly interesting reading. Mr. Favene has himself done good vrork in Australian exploration, having been in the Queenlander Transcontinental Expedition of 1878-9, and later having traced the courses of the rivers running into the Gulf of Carpentaria, near the Queensland border. At the present time he is engaged in examining the country on the Gascoyne and Murchison. Mr. Favenc summarises what has been done to open up Australia as follows :?New South Wales, contains no unexplored country; Yictoria, none; Queensland, a small portion of Cape York Peninsula; South Australia, a considerable area; and Western Australia, a very great deal. Mr. Favenc by no means takes the hopeless view of the western half of the continent which is generally main- tained. The work is accompanied by a large map showing the routes of the leading expeditions, and reproductions of three older maps.

WEST INDIES.

Sinelair, A. C, and Fyfe, Laurenee B.?The Handbook of Jamaica for 1888-89, comprising Historical, Statistical, and General Information concerning the Island. London, E. Stanford, 1888: 8vo., pp. xii. and 566, map. [Presented by Sir Henry Norman.]

GENERAL.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution to July 1885. Part II. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1886 : 8vo., pp. xi., 264, vii. and 939. [Presented by the Smithsonian Institution.]

This volume is mainly occupied with a description of the George Catlin Indian Gallery, with memoir and statistics, by Mr. Thomas Donaldson, profusely illustrated, and containing a separate pagination and a special index.

Berlioux, E.-P.?-Les Chetas sont des Scythai. Notice. Lyon, Association Typ., 1888 : large 8vo., pp. 15. [Presented by the Author.]

Jahresbericht des Direktors des Koniglichen Geodatischen Instituts fiir die Zeit von April 1887 bis April 1888. Berlin, P. Stankiewicz, 1888 Y 8vo., pp. 39.

Gnnther, [Dr.] Siegmund.?Johannes Kepler und der Tellurisch-Kosmische Magnetismus.

* Geographische Abhandlungen,' herausgegeben von Prof. Dr.




Albrecht Penck. Band III. Heft 2. Wien, Holzel, 1888 : 8vo., pp 71. [Pre? sented by the Publishers.]

In this paper Dr. Gunther discusses the knowledge of terrestrial magnetism in the time of Kepler; Kepler's investigations on the terrestrial magnetic elements and the position of the magnetic pole; Kepler's theory of the magnetic planetary axes, and universal attraction.

Landau, [Baron] Wilhelm von.?Travels in Asia, Australia, and America, com? prising the period between 1879 and 1887. Part I. New York, G. Landau, 1888 : 12mo., pp. 357. [Presented by the Author.]

[london Library.]?Catalogue of the London Library, St. James's Square, London. With Preface, Laws and Regulations, and Appendix containing List of Members, Contents of Voluminous Collections, Alphabetical List of Tracts, and a Classified Index of Subjects. By Robert Harrison, Secretary and Librarian. Fifth edition [2 vols.] 1888: 8vo., pp. xvi. and 1161; (Appendix) xiiv. and 463. [Presented by the London Library.]

Mitford, Major-General E. C. W. Eeveley.?Orient and Oecident. A journey East from Lahore to Liverpool. With illustrations from sketches by the Author. London, W. H. Allen & Co., 1888. Price 8s. Gd.

General Mitford's name as the author of 'To Cabul with the Cavalry Brigade' is sufficient to ensure for his new book a large number of readers, who will find that he takes them with him very pleasantly over a long and interest? ing journey. Leaving Lahore towards the end of the cold season of 1886, he travelled by way of Lucknow, Benares, Calcutta, Penang, Singapore, Hongkong, Japan, San Francisco, and New York to Liverpool, having taken a little under seven months on the trip. There is much, of course, that has already been frequently described by previous travellers; but the whole is written in a pleasant chatty style that renders even well-worn subjects agreeable reading. There are 94 full-page and folding illustrations, and a chart of the route at the end. Some of the former are extremely good, as the views of the Great Salt Lake, and the entrance to Singapore harbour, and some very bad, as, Niagara from the Canadian side, and the boat on the Inland Sea, described as " very sharp at the bows," but depicted with remarkably bluff ones. There are also an alarming number of errors in the book, not only of typography, but also of fact; and the author appears to have noted down a great deal on very imperfect and erroneous information.

[Sans, E. Monner.]?Importancia y necessidad del Estudio de la Geografia. Discurso leido ante la Sociedad Barcelonesa de Amigos de la Instruccion en la recepcion piiblica del socio D. R. Monner Sans. Barcelona, J. Subirana, 1887 : large 8vo., pp. 16. [Presented by the Author.]

[The * Challenger* Voyage.]?Report on the Scientific Results of the Yoyage

of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, etc, etc. Zoology?vols. xxvi. and xxvii. London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888 : 4to., pp. (vol. xxvi.) viii., ix., 399, 240, and 56, (vol. xxvii.) pp. viii., xi., 221, 42, 27, and 166, plates. Price (vol. xxvi.) 50s., (vol. xxvii.) 30s. [Presented by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.]

The Travellers' Medical Guide: A Brief Manual for Explorers, Missionaries, Colonists, and Ship-Captains. By a Physician. Second edition. London, Whiting & Co., 1888: 12mo., pp. viii. and 06. Price ls.

The following works have also been added to the Library :? Anville [J. B. B. d']. Propositlou d'une Mesure de la Terre, dont il re*sulte une

diminution considerable dans sa circonference sur les Paralleles. Paris, 1735: 16mo., pp. xxix. and 147, map.



NEW MAPS. 745

[Dellon, D.]?Relation de Flnquisition de Goa. Leyde, D. Gaasbeek, 1687: 16mo., pp. 220.

[Denis, Ferdinand-]?Le Genie de la Navigation, statue en bronze executee par M. Daumas pour la ville de Toulon. Toulon, Laurent; Paris, Ledoyen, 1847: 8vo., pp. 136, plate.

[The above three works were presented by M. James Jackson.J

IFeatherstonliailgli, G. W.?A Canoe Yoyage up the Minnay Sotor; with an Account of the Lead and Copper Deposits in Wisconsin; of the Gold Region in the Cherokee country; and Sketches of Popular Manners, &c, &c, &c. [2 vols. in 1]. London, R. Bentley, 1847: 8vo., pp. (vol. i.) xiv. and 416; (vol. ii.) vii. and 351, maps and plates.

GalignanPs Traveller's Guide through France, containing a Geographical, Historical, and Picturesque description of every remarkable place in that kiogdom, etc, etc. Eighth edition. Paris, A. and W. Galignani, 1827 : 16mo., pp. Iii. and 815. [Presented by R. M'Laehlan, Esq.]

Maekenna, B, Vicuna.?A traves de los Andes. Estudio sobre la mejor ubicacion del futuro ferro carril interoceanico entre el Atlantico i el Pacifico en la America del Sur (la Republica Arjentina i Chile). Santiago, Imp. Gutenberg, 1885 : 12mo., pp. x. and 366, map.

MagalhSes, Conto de.?0 Selvagem. I. Curso da Lingua Geral Segundo Ollendorf, &c. II. Origens, Costnmes, Regiao Selvagem, &e. Rio de Janeiro, 1876 : 8vo., pp. xlviii., 281, and 194.

NEW MAPS.

(By J. Coles, Map Curator R.G.S.)

ABCTIC REGIONS. Saffin Land.?Die Eisverhaltnisse des Siidostlichen Teiles von-. Nach den

Beobachtungen amerikanischer Walfischfanger von Dr. F. Boas. Central scale 1: 6,000,000 or 82*2 geographical miles to an inch. Petermann's 'Geographische Mitteilungen,' Jahrgang 1888, Tafel 18. Gotha, Justus Perthes. (Bulau.)

EUBOPE. Banmark.?Generalstabens topographiske Kaart over-. Scale 1:40,000 or

1*8 inches to a geographical mile. Kalchographeret og graveret ved General- staben. Kjobenhavn, 1887. Sheets:?" Gedsted," uHobro," and "Holstebro." (Bulau.)

Italia.? Carta del Begno d'-, alla scala di 1:100,000 or 1*3 geographical miles to an inch. Istituto geografico militare. Firenze. Sheets:? 44, Novara; 54, Oulx; 58, Mortara; 70, Alessandria; 71, Yoghera; 72, Fiorenzuola d'Arda; 73, Parma; 82, Genova; 83, Bapallo; 84, Pontremoli; 85, Castelnovo ne' Monti; 86, Modena; 94, Chiavari; 95, Spezia; 96, Massa; 97, S. Marcello Pistojese; 104, Pisa; 105, Lueea; 111, Livomo; 112, Volterra; 119, Massa Marittima. Price ls. M. each sheet. {Bulau.)

Portugal.?Government Map of-. Scale 1:100,000 or 1*3 geographical miles to an inch. Sheets Nos. 1 and 34, Levantada, construida e gravada pela Direccao geral dos trabalhos geodesicos do Beino. Publicada em 1887. (Bulau.)



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