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View of Ancient and Modern Egypt, with an outline of its 

 Natural History. By the Rev. Michael Russell, LL. D. 

 pp. 480, with a Map and ten Engravings by Branston. Oliver 

 and Boyd, Edinburgh. 



Tills is the tliird volume of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, and fully 

 sustains the reputation of that work. 



Under the general heads of Physical Properties and Geographical 

 Distribution of Egypt ; Civil History of Ancient Egypt ; Mecha- 

 nical Labours of the Ancient Egyptians ; The Literature and Science 

 of the Ancient Egyptians ; Remains of Ancient Art in various parts 

 of Egypt ; Civil History of Modern Egypt ; The Actual State of 

 Egypt under the Government of Mahommed Ali; The Oases; 

 Ancient Berenice and Desert of the Thebaid ; Manners and Customs 

 of the Egyptians ; and Natural History of Egypt, — is associated a 

 body of information on the history of this ancient people, which 

 combines all the qualities requisite for the professed historian and 

 the general reader. The only objection we can find to this volume 

 arises from the meagre and unprofitable chapter on natural history, 

 which, if it could not have, been properly done, had better have been 

 altogether omitted. 



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'ft A Map of the Basin 'of the Tiyr including thie greater 

 part of Perthshire, Strathmore, and the Braes of Angus, or 

 Forfar ; a part of the Mearns, or Kincardine ; and a portion of 

 the County of Fife. 



Topography of the Basin of the Tay. 12mo, with three 

 plates. Vol. I. published. Anderson, jun. North Bridge Stref t, 

 an^l Hunter, Hanover Street, Edinburgh. «^u 



" The talents of Mr Knox have already passed the ordeal of public 

 ' examination, and been favourably received. The Map of the Basin 

 of the Forth reflects the highest credit upon both the author and the 

 ' engraver. ' • 



We now have a map of the Basin of the Tay, which rivals the excel- 

 lencies of its predecessor. To those who know the value and 

 importance of accurately laid-down roads, this map will be most 

 acceptable. If we had any fault to find with it, we should say, that 

 it contains too much. It is crowded with a profusion of seats of peers 

 and gentlemen, plantations, ruins, and antiquities, public and private 

 roads, rivers, rivulets, lines of canals and railways, hills, soundings, 

 .^^'^' and islands, with the line of low water-mark in th6 Firth of Tay, 

 and the boundary lines of the diflferent counties and jiarishes. 

 "The Map includes that portion of Scotland extending from Cupar in 

 Fife to Schihallion, Rannoch, the Forest of Atholl, and the Braes 

 of Angus and Mearns, to Laurencekirk ; and the coast from St 

 Andrews to Montrose, inclusive. 

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