48 Dr Boue on the Geography and Geology of 



vestigation of which I intend devoting several years. I shall 

 start again in April, and extend my observations to Asia Minor. 

 Possibly I may fix my quarters at Constantinople. In my next 

 I shall mention how such a journey may be made easily and 

 pleasantly.* 



Although many countries have been lately surveyed and de- 

 scribed, we still remain in the same ignorance as ever in regard 

 to the natural configuration and constitution of the Turkish do- 

 minions. Christian prejudices and mercantile interests are the 

 chief reasons for the small number of European travellers in 

 Turkey ; especially as that country now enjoys the blessings of 

 peace, and the former fanaticism of the inhabitants has disap- 

 peared. Seeing a vast field of new facts before me, I determin- 

 ed to devote three or four years to its investigation, and endea- 

 voured to associate with myself in my travels some naturalists 

 who cultivated other branches than geology. This year I was 

 fortunate enough to secure for a portion, of my tour the assist- 

 ance of two French geologists, M. Montalambert and M. Vique- 

 nel, together with a Moravian botanist, M. de Friedrichstal, and 

 a Moravian entomologist and zoologist, M. Adolphe Schwab. 

 These gentlemen extended their travels to the Archipelago, and 

 so far as Syria and Egypt. 



Part 1st. Geography. 



We began our tour in parts of Turkey which are almost 

 quite unknown, but instead of impediments, we everywhere 

 found the people obliging, often anxious to forward our enter- 

 prize, with kindness and civil treatment on the part of the 

 Pachas or minor governors of the land, and the Christian chiefs. 

 Prince Milosh, in particular, has every claim to our gratitude 

 for his great politeness, and the facilities he afforded us, not on- 

 ly in Servia, but also in Turkey. The Sau and the Danube, 

 Montenegro, Scutari, Pindus, Olympus, Salonichi, Philipopolis, 



Central Turkey than of any other extensive tract in Europe, and we have, 

 therefore, great pleasure in laying before our readers the first of a series of 

 memoirs on these districts, by so able and acute an observer as our friend Dr 

 Boue. EDIT. 



* In a second letter, which has just reached us, Dr Boue* communicates 

 " Some remarks on the best mode of travelling in Turkey." These useful 

 instructions are published in the subsequent part of this number of the Journal. 



