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main ; and the deductions though bold, are yet rational and 

 admissible. It is for the future to determine whether the ideas 

 of this able geologist, are in accordance with the natural pro- 

 cesses which he admits, and which he continues to observe with 

 the most laudable perseverance. 



Remarks on the Scenery, Antiquities, Population, Agriculture^ 

 and Commerce of Central European Turkey. By Dr A. 

 Boue'. Communicated by the Author in a Letter to the 

 Editor. 



Part I. — Scenery and Antiquities. 



European Turkey contains numerous gulfs, valleys, and 

 mountainous districts, whose magnificent landscapes well merit 

 the attention of travellers, although unfortunately they are but 

 too little known. We often hear of painters wishing to have 

 new objects for representation. Now, scarcely any part of the 

 eastern world has as yet been explored by artists ; for it is only 

 some of the maritime parts which have been properly illustrated, 

 whilst the interior of the country still remains almost a terra 

 incognita to painters. Yet not only would the landscape pain- 

 ter find ample materials for his pencil, but the portrait pain- 

 ter would find a still richer treasure in the non-European faces, 

 forms, dresses, and manners. He would be enabled to com- 

 pose pictures, in which the finest ancient Greek faces and forms 

 would be intermingled with the beautiful and genuine oriental 

 ones; and he might ornament these, in a most picturesque 

 manner, by dresses, partly Asiatic, partly resembling the old 

 Roman and Grecian costumes. 



Where do we find paintings giving us a clear idea of an Al- 

 banian marriage, which offers so many singular fashions? Where 

 can we see a good representation of the Kolo dance, as perform- 

 ed by the Servians ; or of those dances, executed within view 

 of the snowy tops of the Tschardagh, by the gay Bulgarian 

 girls, when on their way to the labours of the harvest .? Where 

 do we find a painting of a Turkish lady travelling with her 

 armed attendants? and, Where,;finally, is the picture repre- 

 senting a half Turkish, half Christian, travelling party ; or the 



