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" Insects of Georgia," he may be sure of being rewarded. 

 Throughout these sunny regions there is still sufficient forest 

 to preserve every species in almost its pristine abundance, 

 while the dangers and the labours of the naturalist are compa- 

 ratively trifling. The brilliant Pyrophori seem to illuminate 

 the night almost throughout the continent ; from New Orleans 

 to Quebec, there is scarcely a locality in which we have not 

 evidence of their presence, but it is in the Southern State of 

 North America that they are most numerous and brilliant. In 

 the gem-like Buprestites, and the more brilliant butterflies, 

 perhaps these states can scarcely rival the Brazils ; yet so 

 immense has been the importation from the latter country, that 

 the Floridas and Carolinas promise infinitely more of novelty, 

 and, in every respect, appear to us to offer greater inducements 

 to the explorer. 



The climate, as a previous quotation has shown, is quite 

 tropical. Through the whole tract of country, stretching coast- 

 ward, to New Orleans, the orange, wherever cultivated, bears 

 abundantly, and is loaded, even at mid-winter, with ripe and 

 golden fruit, and this season seems better adapted to the 

 European constitution than the more intense heats of summer, 

 and promises an almost equally abundant harvest to the enter- 

 prising entomologist. 



Art. XXXIX. — Appendix to Captain Sir John Ross's Nar- 

 rative of his Second Voyage, &c. London : Webster. 

 1835. 



The universal interest which the achievements of Captain 

 Ross have excited, is sufficient apology for an introduction of his 

 name into a Magazine of this kind ; but, in the volume before 

 us, there is so complete and excellent an account of Boothian 

 zoology that we conceive it would be nothing less than a derelic- 

 tion of duty were we to pass it by unnoticed. Captain J.Clark 

 Ross, the nephew and companion of the dauntless adventurer 

 , under whose command the expedition was undertaken, being a 

 competent naturalist, has drawn up that portion of the volume 

 which relates to zoology ; and of this account we have attempted 

 to give a mere outline. In the list, it will be observed, there 



