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have surveyed in the character of a philosopher, an artist, and an 

 observer of manners. We are exceedingly anxious to have him 

 amongst us, and this wish will, no doubt, soon be accomplished, 

 if his health permit him to return to his country. 



The African Society of London lias sent travellers to Egypt, 

 with the commission to follow the course of the Bahr-el-Abiad 

 as far as Bornou. Frenchmen have also gone in the same direc- 

 tion, and it is to be hoped that the most successful results will 

 arise from this concurrence. 



On the other hand, M. Lander, one of the companions of 

 Captain Clapperton during his last journej^ is gone with his 

 brother to Badagrj^, on the coast of Guinea. They will explore 

 the course of the great river of Central Africa, especially towards 

 the point where it is pretended that the river takes a southern 

 direction, to empty its waters into the Gulf of Guinea. 



Mr Cooper Rose has ably and faithfully painted the manners 

 and scenery of those parts of Southern Africa which he has 

 visited. His journey entitles him to the esteem of a public eager 

 for all that is exact and true. 



Geographical science is indebted to Captain Owen for the best 

 works M'hich have yet appeared on the eastern and western 

 coasts of Africa. His maps have rectified the laying down of 

 the banks so fruitful in shipwrecks, and where civilization is 

 extending under the protection of the present possessors of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



The conquest of the capital of Algiers by our troops has brought 

 this State into great notice ; and numerous publications would 

 have been supplied to the desires of the public, had not the 

 important occurrences which have recently called our attention 

 to other matters, caused us for a time to forget this conquest, 

 and absorbed the attention of the whole world. We maj^ how- 

 ever, hope that the year 1831 will not pass away without bringing 

 to light a portion of those documents which must, doubtless, have 

 been prepared at the leisure of several very able men, indepen- 

 dently of those which are already possessed, and are still being 

 collected, by a government fi-iendly to science, and a protector 

 of her works. 



America, 



This continent has also been traversed in different directions 

 by many travellers. I shall first mention one of our countrymen, 

 M. Dessalines d'Orbigny, who has visited Patagonia, and those 

 American tribes where the nomadic life of the Arab is found 

 in perfection, with all their disdainful fierceness, their passion 

 for independence, and their hatred of the manners and religion 

 of strangers. M. d'Orbigny has lived amongst three races of 

 natives occupying the vast and barren district between Rio de 

 Plata and Terra Magellanica. He has also collected entirely 

 new details on natural history, and on the language of the 

 Araucanas, the Puelches, and the Patagonians. 



