](,< r INTRODUCTION. 



1818-19, by John Griscom ; 1823. Letters from Europe, &c. by N. H. Carter; 

 New- York, 1827. (Two editions.) A Year in Spain, by Alex. S. McKenzie ; 

 Boston, 1829. Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Sea and the Pacific, 

 1822-31, by Benj. Morrell ; New- York, 1831. Voyages Round the World, be- 

 tween 1792 and 1832, by Edward Fanning ; New- York, 1832. Voyage of the 

 U. S. Frigate Potomac, 1831-34, by J. N. Reynolds ; 1835. A Winter in the 

 West, by a New-Yorker, [Charles F. Hoffman;] 1835. The Old World and 

 the New, or a Journal of Reflections and Observations, made in a Tour in Eu- 

 rope, by Orville Dewey ; 1836. Sketches of Turkey in 1831-32, by Jas. E. De 

 Kay ; New- York, 1833. Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petrsea, and the 

 Holy Land, by John L. Stephens ; 1836. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Tur- 

 key, Russia and Poland, by the same ; 1837. Journal of an Exploring Tour 

 beyond the Rocky Modntains, 1835-37, by Samuel Parker ; 1838. Incidents of 

 Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, by John L. Stephens ; 1841. 

 Biblical Researches in Palestine, &c. or a Journal of Travels in the year 1838, 

 by Edward Robinson and Eli Smith, drawn up by E. Robinson ; 1841. Letters 

 from the Old World, by Mrs. Haight ; New- York, 1840. Letters from Abroad, 

 &c. by C. S. Sedgwick ; New- York, 1841. Travels in England, &c. by J. Fen- 

 nimore Cooper. Travels in Switzerland, &c. by the same. Travels in Europe, 

 by Valentine Mott ; 1842. The American in Egypt, with rambles through Ara- 

 bia Petraea and the Holy Land, during the years 1839 and 1840, by James 

 Ewing Cooley ; 1842. 



With regard to these works we may remark, that Schoolcraft's publications 

 are among the best accounts of the western wilderness ; that McKenzie's lively 

 and graphic sketches of Spanish society have not been surpassed ; Dr. De Kay's 

 volume upon Turkey is replete with information valuable to the general reader 

 as well as to the naturalist ; that Hoffman is successfully creating a national taste 

 for works descriptive of our own scenery, and illustrative of our own own history ; 

 the letters of Mrs. Haight, are written with vivacity and elegance; Stephens, 

 Robinson and Dewey, forsook customary routes of travellers, and struck across the 



