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Notice of" Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis, in company 

 with the late Rei\ E. T. DanielV By Lieutenant T. A. B. 

 Spratt, R.N., F.G.S., of the Mediterranean Hydrogi-aphical 

 Survey; and Professor Edward Forbes, F.R.S., of King's 

 College, London, and tlie Geographical Survey; late Naturalist 

 to H.M. Surveying Ship Beacon. 2 vols. Van Voorst : Lon- 

 don, 1847. 



This work is one which has been looked for with considerable in- 

 terest : Mr. Van Voorst has contrived to keep the promise of its 

 appearance so skilfully before the public, that we have never been 

 able to lose sight of it, and it is with pleasure we find that the pro- 

 mise is now fulfilled. We began to imagine the work congeneric 

 with Mrs. Harris and Professor Forbes' ' Rambles of a Naturalist,' 

 inviting shadows cast before by events that were to come, a character 

 which they seem destined ever to maintain. In this faith, however, 

 we have met with a most agreeable disappointment. The ' Travels 

 in Lycia' are now before us, in two goodly tomes, illustrated by some 

 of the best plans, and some of the worst views we have lately seen. 

 The plans are admirably drawn and engraved : the views may have 

 been well drawn, but are so wretchedly executed in lithotint, that we 

 could wish them anywhere but in the work which they disfigure. 



The narrative is written in an easy, readable style, and is replete 

 with valuable and interesting information. We almost regret that 

 the restricted scope of the ' Phy tologist ' precludes our quoting any 

 portion of the first volume, which is by far the more agreeable of the 

 two. The second ti'eats almost exclusively of the Natural History of 

 the journey : in the phytological portion we find much that is plea- 

 sant, and quite worth transferring to our pages. 



The Beacon arrived at Termessus in the first week in January, 

 when but few plants were in flower, but three months previously 

 Messrs. Hoskyn and Forbes had landed at Kalamaki, near Patara, 

 and found the hills and little sheltered bays around that port, thickly 

 covered with woods of the strawberry-tree [Arhuiiis Unedo), then 

 forming its fruit, while oaks, carobs, wild olives, figs, &c., united in 

 constituting the arborescent vegetation of the coast. Around the trees 

 were thickets of storax. Daphnes and myrtles of enormous size. 

 This gives one a very agreeable idea of the face of the country, and 

 the more so that the writer has confined himself to a modest state- 

 ment of the facts, unaccompanied by any rhapsodical panegyrics. 



