during the year 1829-30. 91 



language of the Araucanas, the Puelches, and the Patago- 

 nians. 



Messrs. Hardy and Thompson were engaged, during tlieir 

 excursion in Mexico and Guatemala, in adding to our previous 

 information with regard to the soil and inhabitants of these new 

 republics. M. Franck, introduced to you spme time ago by 

 M. Poinsett, one of your most esteemed correspondents, has 

 al.^0 recently brought to Paris numerous drawings which he 

 collected during a residence of several years in Mexico, antl an 

 account of which will shortly be laid before the society. 



MM. Yosy, Lbotski, Le Prieur, and d'Acosta, to whom the 

 central commission has presented instruments and instructions, 

 are on their road to visit several parts of the New World. We 

 have every reason to believe that these travellers will not neg- 

 lect any thing which can make the time they devote to the ad- 

 vancement of geography profitable to that science. 



I may besides mention the labours of Mr. Pentland in the 

 Republic of Bolivia; those now being carried on in California 

 by Dr. Coulter, an excellent English naturalist, who, provided 

 with good instruments, himself a good astronomer, and full of 

 ardour, will certainly deduce useful results from his voyage, 

 which he has undertaken solely for the interest of science. 



M. Henri Turnau*x, a member of this society, has returned a 

 short time ago from America, and will soon give you an ac- 

 count of all that he has observed in ilic countries through 

 which he has passed. 



We owe to I lis Royal Highness Prince Christian Frederick of 

 Denmark, the communication of the journal of Captain Gra?R 

 of the royal navy, employed by the Danish government in ex- 

 ploring the cast coast of* Greenland. This extract leads us 

 to expect, that, at his return from so perilous a duty crowned 

 with success, M, Graah will have reached, in this third attempt, 

 the most northern point of that coast of iron and ice, where, it 

 is said, he has even found human .inhabitants. Let us hope, 

 gentlemen, that this intrepid navigator, when returned safe and 

 sound to his country, may receive testimony of the esteem due 

 to so much devotion, and that he may publish the materials 

 which he shall havp collected, in order to extend our knowledge 

 of the geography of those northern Ian''-.. 



Western Asia.— The Ottoman empire, which the colossus of 

 the North threatened with total destruction in 1828 and 1829,' 

 continues still to attract into the vast provinces under her sway 

 a great number of travellers, desirous perhaps of being wit- 

 nesses of a great catastrophe, which the events of the last four 

 months, and those to which we still look forward, may put off 



