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soon be accomplished, if his health permit, him lo rctrfrn to his 

 cotintrv. 



The African Society of London has sent travellers to Egypt, 

 with the commission to follow the course of the Bahr-el-Abiad 

 as far as Boraou. Frenchmen have also gone in the same di- 

 rection, aud it is to be hoped that th'3 most successful results 

 will arise from this concurrence. 



On the other hand, RL Lander, one of the companions of 

 Captain Clapperton during his last journey, is gone with his 

 brother to Badagry, on the coast of Guinea. They will cx- 

 ploro the course of the great river of Central Africa, especially 

 • twards the point where, it is pretended that the river takes a 

 southern direction, to emply its waters into the Gulf of Guinea. 



Mr. Cooper Rose has ably and faithfully painted the man- 

 ner and scenery of those pnrts of Southern Africa which he 

 has visited. Mis journey entitles him to the esteem of a pub- 

 lic eager for all that is exact and true. 



Geographical science is indebted to Captain Owen for the 

 best works which have yet appeared on the eastern and western 

 coasts of Africa. His maps have rectified the laying down of 

 the banks so fruitful in shipwrecks, and where civilization is 

 extending under ihe protection of the present possessors of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



The conquest of the capital of Algiers by our troops lias 

 brought this State into great notice; and numerous publica- 

 tions would have been supplied to the desires of the public, 

 had not the important occurrences which have recently called 

 our attention to other matters, caused us for a time to forget 

 ties conquest, and absorbed the attention of the whole world. 

 We may, however, hope that the year 1831 will not pass away 

 without bringing: to light a rtbrtion 61 those documents which 

 must, doubtless, have been piepared at the leisure of several 

 very able men, independently of those which are "already pos- 

 sessed, and nre gtill being collected, by a government friendly 

 to science, and a protector of her works. 



America. — This continent has also been traversed in different 

 direction* by many trsiollcrs. 1 shill first mention one of our 

 ..nintiN nr-n, M. Dettaltnta d'OrbfenY, who has visited Patago- 

 bia, hud l hose American tribes whe're the nomadic life of the 

 Arab is found in perfection, with all their disdainful fierceness, 

 their passion for independence, and their Hatred of the manners' 

 and religion of strangers. M. d'Orbigny has lived amongst 

 three races of natives occupying the vast and barren district 

 between Rio de Plata and Terra Magellanica. He has also 

 collected entirely new d( tails on natural history, and on the 



