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" These volumes give the official and authorized account of the surveying voyage 

 of the Samarang in the Eastern Aixhipelago and Northern Seas of China and Japan. 

 Besides much geographical and practical information, Capt. Belcher's Nai'rative 

 contains a close and mature view of the ministers and monarchs of those distant 

 regions. A novelty about the portions of Sir E. Belcher's book to which we are 

 now adverting is their conscientiousness and apparent veracity, in recapitulating the 

 trading capabilities of Borneo and the natural advantages of Labuau. The author 

 describes these as he found them without any over-anxiety of laudation ; and such of 

 our merchants as contemplate enterprises to that new El Dorado will do well to 

 consult his pages beforehand. Sir E. Belcher has added something to our knowledge 

 of these regions ; he has viewed the people of the Meia-co-shimahs and Loo-Choo 

 with a more wary and intelligent eye than any of his predecessors ; and we have little 

 doubt that his conclusions respecting them will be found correct. Guelpart and the 

 Korean Archipelago are new ground." — Uxaminer. 



"Those who wish to comprehend the scope and results of the Voyage, to -get a 

 clear view of the character and policy of the principal peoples of those parts, to judge 

 of our prospects of quickly opening an extensive trade in the Ai-chipelago, and to form 

 a distinct geographical idea of the region, must possess themselves of Capt. Belcher's 

 work. Nor will it, amid its instruction, be found unattractive." — Spectator. 



" We must express the gratification we feel at being enabled to announce the ex- 

 tended cii'culation of these important volumes; a dissemination they indeed pre- 

 eminently merit, as well on the score of the interesting and novel nature of the 

 information they comprise, as from the lucid and engaging style in which it is written. 

 A singularly interesting and extensive portion of the world ; the manners and customs 

 of its varied inhabitants, with its natural productions, are admirably described in 

 these volumes, which are also copiously illustrated with bcautifidly executed charts, 

 coloured engravings, and etchings." — Asiatic mid Colonial duarterhj Journal. 



*^* In 2 vols., 8vo., 964 pp., 35 Charts, Plates, and Etchings, 



36«., cloth. 



( Under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.) 



2. ZOOLOGY of the VOYAGE of H.M.S. SAMARANG, 

 under the commaud of Capt. Sir Edward Belchijr, C.B., 

 E.E.A.S., and G.S. ; edited by Arthur Adams, Assist. 

 Surgeon, R.N., attached to the Expedition. 



Tlic numerous interesting Generic and Specific forms of Animal Life 

 collected during the Surveying Expedition of H.M.S, Samarang, under 

 the command of Sir Edward Belcher, being deemed of considerable 

 zoological importance, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's 

 Treasury have been pleased to sanction a liberal grant of money towards 

 defraying the expenses of their publication in a separate work. 



The following gentlemen having kindly undertaken to investigate the 

 several sub-kingdoms to which they are respectively devoted, the work 



