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every direction. The researches pubHshed in Mr Wagner*s 

 Travels through the States of Algiers, vol. iii. p. 140, clearly 

 demonstrate that there is a striking resemblance between 

 the Fauna of those districts of Africa which extend along 

 the Mediterranean, and the Fauna distributed over the 

 opposite coast of Europe, with the exception, however, of a 

 few species, which are confined to the former. The States of 

 Barbary are distinctly separated from the southern countries 

 of Africa, not so much, as one might fancy, by the chains of 

 Mount Atlas, as by the desert of Sahara. The Fauna of 

 Egypt is more closely related to that of the other districts of 

 Africa, than to that of the States of Barbary ; and when sin- 

 gle forms are distributed from thence to other parts of Africa, 

 it is only through Egypt. We have already alluded to the 

 great afi&nity traceable between the Egypto-Nubian Fauna, 

 with which that of Sennaar and Kordofans forms the connect- 

 ing link, and the Fauna of Senegambia. (juinea, which, 

 among the magnificent Fauna of its lowlands, certainly claims 

 some species as entirely its own, for instance the genuine 

 Goliaths, agrees on the whole with the countries of the Senegal, 

 because a great many species are found to be, to a certain ex- 

 tent, common to both. The Fauna of South Africa is appa- 

 rently more isolated. This is owing partly to the circum- 

 stance that it embraces several species of its own, partly to 

 the peculiar mode of distribution by which the general rela- 

 tions of the Fauna are more or less aifected. We allude, in 

 the present instance, to the predominance of the Melaso- 

 mas, to the frequent occurrence of small Melolonthidse, &;c. 

 Hence we have ample reason to expect here an independent 

 Fauna system. The feet, that several species, common to 

 the tropics of Africa, to Guinea and Senegambia, are found 

 again in great abundance at Christmas Bay, as also in the 

 vicinity of Cape Town, might confirm us in the belief that 

 there are no mountains intervening, at least none large enough 

 to eff^ect a division between the Faunas. So long, however, as 

 we are left in ignorance with regard to the condition of the 

 countries extending from the Gulf of Guinea to the Cape of 

 Good Hope, or even with regard to particular localities, so 

 long shall we be prevented from determining the exact relation 



