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PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL. 
On the Original Population of America, and the modes of access 
from the Old to the New Continent, with Preliminary Ob- 
servations on the recently published Travels in North America, 
of Prince Maximilian of Wied.* By Lieut.-Colonel CHARLES 
Haron Surra. Communicated by the Author. 
Books of travels in North America, the Atlantic States, 
the interior, the Canadas, and Texas, have been of late so 
superabundant in our language, that to offer some remarks 
on one that does not appear to have been reviewed, although 
it was published some months ago, might be taken for an 
absolute work of supererogation. In the original, it is true, 
the language is German ; but both French and English ver- 
sions were brought out, we believe, at the same time, with the 
approbation of the author, Prince Maximilian of Wied, who 
formerly gave the scientific public an interesting account of 
his travels in Brazil, and is so well known for careful and 
extensive researches in natural history. The work before us 
(we refer chiefly to the German edition, the most complete of 
the three) differs somewhat from the English version, by 
having all the philological researches, and the zoological 
* Reise in das innere Nord America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834, von 
Mawimilian Prinz eu Wied. 2 vols. imp. 4to, with Atlas of Plates. Co- 
blenz. Travels in the interior of North America, by Maximilian Prince 
of Wied. London: Ackermann, 1843. 
VOL. XXXVIIL NO. LXXV.—JAN. 1645. A 
