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In order to obtain a correct answer to these inquiries, we ought 

 to compare the facts.exhibited in this storm with those of various 

 other storms similar to this, as has been done by Mr. Redfield and 

 Col. Reid in respect to the great gales of the Atlantic. I have 

 not at present the leisure for such an investigation, but may possi- 

 bly recur to the subject in a future number of the JournaL 



MISCELLANIES. 



FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. 



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Notices of geological and other physical facts and of 

 in Asia, from Sir Robert K. Porter^s Travels in Geo 

 Armenia, Ancient Babylonia^ Sfc. Sfc.^ during the years 1817, '18, 

 '19, and '20, with numerous engravings of portraits, costumeSj an- 

 tiquities, ^-c. In two 4to vols, London, 1821. VoL I, pp. 720. Vol- 

 II, pp. 869. 



The splendid volumes whose title is cited above, are, we have rea- 

 son to believe, little known to the reading public of this country. 

 Beinor, from their size and their numerous graphic illufcitrations, very 

 expensive, they are found in few of our libraries ; and it was during 

 a detention of some weeks in the spring of 1838 at Hanover, that 

 we had opportunity to peruse a copy belonging to the library of 



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Dartmouth College- 



Although the book is out of print, we are assured that a copy may 

 be occasionally obtained in England, and we venture strongly to re- 

 commend the work as a great treasure in all libraries, especially 

 in those of colleges and other public institutions. We hesitate not to 

 say, that these volumes form the most instructive, valuable and inter- 

 esting book of travels which we have ever read- They are replete with 

 the most important information, and from the numerous and striking 

 proofs of the truth of the scripture history which are found in the 

 places where the events occurred as well as from innumerable relics of 

 ancient structures and of primitive manners which, after thousands of 

 years, linger still in their native places. Sir Robert Kerr Porter's 

 work leaves on the mind of the reader, and especially of the young, 

 the strono^est conviction that the Old Testament is true, and that 

 therefore "the New cannot be false. Sir Robert's mind seems to have 

 been imbued with the highest reverence for the book of God, and he 

 appears to be never more gratified ihaa when he finds, as he often 

 does, illustrations of its truth. 



