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by a judicious selection of names, arranged on a special index 

 accompanying each map, lie at once directs tiie observer to the 

 position of any place through the medium of letters of reference. 

 But that which most pleases the eye and instructs the looker on 

 is the remarkable distinctness which is given to every water- 

 course, lake, canal, or railroad by the use of " light blue ink." By 

 this process the orography and skeleton of each country stand out 

 in clear relief, the coast-lines never confusing the student. In 

 short, this atlas, of which two parts out of ten are now issued, will, 

 I have no doubt, be generally approved, and its sale will, I trust, 

 reward the author for his long and arduous labours. 



Nelson's Atlas, of which one portion has been published, is an 

 excellent and carefully executed work, of that class which reflects 

 so much credit on our Scottish geographers, and is an evidence of 

 the great and increasing interest taken by the general public in 

 geography. This atlas gives the distances and measurements in 

 English miles, a mode better adapted for length and area than for 

 angular measurements, and which is to be elucidated by an index 

 which will give the distance of each place from London in English 

 miles. By consulting this index the position of any place on the 

 map can be at once found, whilst its geographical position on the 

 globe is told off in the language of common life. As I am informed 

 that the calculations for the index involved several months of labour, 

 I hope that the efforts of the publisher may be recompensed by a 

 good sale. 



I must also call attention to the ' WeeUy Dispatch Atlas,' com- 

 prising a series of excellent maps (issued one every week) with that 

 paper. These maps include the English counties, as well as general 

 maps, — some of them on a very large scale (India, for instance, 

 being in 8 sheets). The maps are compiled from the latest authori- 

 ties, and chiefly by Fellows of this Society, including Mr. Weller, 

 Mr. Lowry, Mr. Dower, &c. The atlas will contain about 250 

 maps, of which 90 are already published. 



Owing to the changes that have taken place since the ' Gazetteer 

 of the World,' by FuUarton and Co. of Edinburgh, was first issued, 

 a new edition of the first volume of that work, bringing up the 

 geographical and statistical information to the present period, is in 

 course of publication. The ' Royal Illustrated Atlas,' by the same 

 publishers, and to which allusion was made in my Address of last 

 3^ear, has been continued, and will, it is said, be completed during 

 the present year. 



