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in killing several of these animals upon the ice at the head of the 

 bay. 



We found some of these monsters fourteen feet in length and nine 

 feet girth, and of such prodigious weight that we could scarcely 

 turn them over. In the inside of several there were round granite 

 pebbles, larger than walnuts, and in one we counted two-and-twenty. 

 Their hides were so tough, that a bayonet was the only weapon which 

 would pierce them ; and we were not a little surprised at the accounts 

 of the early voyagers already mentioned, in which it is stated, that 

 a thousand of these animals were killed in the short space of seven 

 hours, by the crew of one vessel. Nor were we less curious to find 

 out the manner in which they had contrived to pen up on the shore 

 five hundred walruses alive, and keep them prisoners for several 

 days, as appears to have been the case in one of the voyages alluded 

 to. I can only say, that, had such a task been imposed upon us, we 

 should have found it utterly impossible to accomplish it. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The following Publications have appeared, or are about to 

 appear : — 



• 1. Professor Forbes"* Work on the Alps. We announce with 



much pleasure the early publication of Professor Forbes' Travels 

 through the Alps of Savoy, and other parts of the Pennine Chain, 

 with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers ; a work which, we 

 feel convinced, will be alike interesting to the man of science, the ge- 

 neral reader, and the traveller in the Alps. Besides the valuable 

 chapters giving the results of the author's laborious and ably con- 

 ducted investigations on glaciers, the volume contains much that is now 

 and curious regarding the Physical Geography, Geology, and Me- 

 teorology of the Alps, and includes narratives of expeditions to many 

 of the least frequented and most picturesque scenes, and to some of 

 the most difficult Passes in the Pennine Chain, such as the Glaciers 

 of Miage and La Brenva, the Passage of the Col du Geant, the Val 

 Pelline, the Col de Fenetres, the Col de Collon, the Glacier of Fer- 

 pecle, the environs of Zermatt, the Col of Mont Cervin, Macugnaga, 

 Monte More, &c. The volume is illustrated by beautiful lithographed 

 views, wood-engravings, &c., and, above all, by a large and finely exe- 

 cuted Map of the Mer de Glace of Chamouni, constructed from the 



