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Bupply of water, and the facilities for its storage in tlie colony of the 

 Cape of Good Hope ; and Part IV. is devoted to a general review of the 

 water supply in the adjacent colonies, and the facilities they possess for its 

 storage and distribution. 



Dr. Brown has thus taken such a comprehensive view of all the details of 

 the subject, that his book forms a complete encyclopsedia of practical 

 meteorology and hydraulic engineering, which may be studied with great 

 advantage to any country suffering from such serious calamities as arise from 

 an arid climate, with insufficient storage for water, and defective irrigation 

 works, or which is subject to the destructive inroads of sudden and 

 violent floods. The terrible famine now working such havoc amongst the 

 natives of India, and the dreadful floods which devastated the south of 

 France a few years ago, are the result of neglecting important natural 

 laws, which the author very clearly explains, and supports his explanations 

 with an abundance of corroborative evidence collected by indeffitigable 

 industry and with great care and discrimination, from a numerous array of 

 trustworthy authorities. The full and varied information which this book 

 contains upon the subject of water supply and its storage, will make it a 

 source of much interest and profitable reading to all who take an interest 

 in our Cape and Australian colonies and India, where the want of a regular 

 and sufficient supply is so severely felt. 



The Thnler Trades Journal. Fortnightly. Price 4d. Published by 

 .1. and W. Rider, London. 



Amongst our numerous contemporaries which devote their attention to 

 some special branch of industry, the Timber Trades Journal holds a lead- 

 ing position, as being the sole exponent in Britain of our home and foreign 

 timber trade, and is so closely connected with one branch of a forester's 

 duties, the profitable disposal of our home-grown timber, that we consider 

 its merits fully entitle it to be brought before the notice of our readers. 

 Besides interesting and instructive original articles on the timber supply 

 of the forests throughout the various countries firom which we import that 

 commodity, and the state of trade in connection therewith, it gives excel- 

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 of the docks and harbours in the United Kingdom, which are chiefly 

 frequented by timber trading vessels, and instructive and popular infor- 

 mation upon a numerous variety of subjects of much interest to those 

 engaged in the imiDortation, and buying and selling of timber. Periodical 

 details are given of the Board of Trade returns, so far as they concern the 

 importation of wood, and special details are given of the amount of timber 

 in stock at the various ports in the United Kingdom, and the amount 

 and quality of all the imports of timber and wood goods at the different 

 ports during the previous fortnight. 



Valuable notes are also given upon all the leading timber sales, with full 

 particulars of the quantity, quality, and prices realized for every description 

 of imported timber. Forthcoming sales of foreign and British timber 



