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in that Tartarus, the lower part of Peru. lam confident 
that the descriptions of some alpine scenes, lat. 38?; of some 
wild but very interesting nations; and of the wonderful 
character of the eastern slope of the Andes, of Peru (lat. 9°, 
S.); as given in my Travels, will afford you pleasure. Rely 
upon it, I shall easily steer clear of some shoals and rocks on 
which others have either suffered damage or wreck:—our 
public wants something sterling and is rendered fastidious by 
the works of Humboldt, Martius, and Neuwied." 
In addition to the above information, we learn from 
Poeppig’s Prospectus of his Travels in Chile, and the 
Amazones River, during the years 182'1 —32, “that the freedom 
of the Spanish colonies in South America now permits the 
stranger to undertake their scientific examination, and abun- 
dant and interesting is the matter they afford. Since the 
period when, favoured by the Court of Madrid, Humboldt, 
the greatest traveller of the day, penetrated the interior of 
the colonies, no other authentic account of these countries 
has appeared. "The dissensions which the Spaniards have 
continually excited, have increased the number of travellers, 
and the curiosity of the reading world has occasioned the 
publication of many works, penned by authors who had 
sailed to South America with totally different views from 
those of science. Peru and Chile were the last to be 
liberated. The prolonged disturbances in these provinces, 
and their great distance from Europe, explain why so few 
works, and at so recent a date, have appeared respecting 
them, and these too describing solely the most frequented 
districts. The Author of the work now announced is one of 
the few foreigners, and the only German, who visited these 
republics with a purely scientific object during late years. 
Prepared by several years' residence in the West Indies and 
North America, he entered Chile in 1827, and was there, as 
well as subsequently in Peru, permitted, on account of his 
peculiar objects, to examine districts hitherto untrodden by 
any scientific European. During his absence, the learned 
public were from time to time informed of his progress and 
