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dering it a primary disease of the constitution ; which, it is sun- 

 posec), must be amended before the complaint can be cured. 

 Hence the farrago of alteratives," &c. &c. which are frecincntly 

 oihihited for weeks, sometimes months, where a judicious appli- 

 cation of simple external remedies would be found capable of 

 effecting a cure in as many days. But we must refer our readers 

 to the work it=;clf for the author's mode of treatment. Tlie con- 

 tents of the work are: -On the Use and Abuse cf Purgatives; 

 — on Strangles; — on Sprains or Claps in the back Sinew; — on 

 Worms; — Spasmodic Colic or Gripes: — Inflammation of the 

 Eyes; — Inflammation of the Lung?; — the Grease ; — the Farcy; 

 — the Glanders; — General Treatment of the Feet; — Inflammation 

 cftheBowek; — Stables; — Clothing: — Litter; — Water; — Light; 

 — Grooming; — Exercise; — Food ; — Formulae of Medicines. 



Travels in Soul h Africa, undertaken at the Request of the Mis- 

 sionanj Society. By John Campbell. 8vo. 596 pages. 



V/e notice this publication (in which there are some curious 

 details, which cannot but prove interesting to those particularly 

 v/ho recommended the voyage) chiefly for the purpose of giving 

 afew extracts of detached facts which maybe acceptable to such 

 or our readers as are fond of natural history. The autlior's route, 

 marked on a map wliich is given in the volume, was from Cape 

 Thwn, about 18" 20' S. long, and 34° S. lat. in a direction nearly 

 east to 27^ 10/; then northerly (with some westerly deviations) 

 10 lat. 27^ 40' S. whence he proceeded easterly, then SW. till 

 he re?.ched the banks of Yellow River, at about '2(5" 30' E. long, 

 and 20^ 30' S. lat. This river runs westerly, and towards its 

 mouth takes the name of Great or Orange River. It runs into 

 the South Atlantic Ocean at about 16° 50' E. long, and 2S'''30' 

 S. lat. Mr. Campbell's general route was then in the direction 

 of \h\=. river, from the point at which he approached it to aboi«; 

 18^ E. long., when he tra'^elled southerly, the most direct way 

 he could find to Cape Town. In this route, a great part of 

 ■which had never been visited by any European, the author en- 

 countered the usual inconveniences which accompany travellers 

 among uncivilised triiies, and met with some facts so curious as to 

 procure them a siight notice in his pages, though his journey had 

 other and more important objects in vievv- — the future civilisa- 

 tion and moral improvement of the sons of Africa. Mr. Camp- 

 bell left England in July 1812, and reached Cape Town on the 

 24th of October. After a few iveeks residence there, and visiting 

 different missioupry settlements, the author and his small party 

 set off on his projected journey on the loth of Feb. IS 13, with 

 tluec waggons (afterwards augmentecl to five) each drawn by 



twelve 



