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are by Mr. A. G. More, well known to the readers of the 

 ' Phytologist.^ Mr. George Guyon contributed the sections on 

 the Coleoptera, Mollusca, etc. Two reverend contributors to the 

 ' Phytologist/ the Rev. A. Bloxam and the Rev. T. Salwey, sup- 

 plied the list of rare Mosses, Lichens, and Fungi. 



It will not be doubted, much less denied, that this local work 

 oifers high credentials, both for the authenticity and proper 

 arrangement of the facts which are recorded in its pages. The 

 work is divided into three parts, and the contents are given below, 



I. " Introduction, Approaches to the Island/' and " Hints 

 to Visitors.'' This part fills 8 pages. 



II. "^^ Places of Principal Resort, Walks, Drives, and Excur- 

 sions." This part fills upwards of 300 pages, and is divided into 

 ten chapters, of which Cowes, Newport, Ryde, Sandown, Shank- 

 lin, Bonchurch, Ventnor, etc., South-western Coast, Freshwater 

 Peninsula, Yarmouth, and Voyage round the Island, form the 

 principal topics. 



The third part contains a general synopsis of the past and 

 present condition of the island. This is divided into the fol- 

 lowing chapters, entitled Topography, Productions Natural and 

 Artificial, Civil and Religious Affairs, Antiquities, General His- 

 tory of the Island, Geology, Zoology, and Botany. This is a 

 very extensive range of subjects; yet it is but bare justice to 

 state that the articles which we have read are all treated in a 

 very satisfactory manner. 



Several of the places described have been visited by us, and 

 therefore we can vouch, on the crede ea^perto principle, that the 

 descriptions are genuine, interesting, and graphic. Instructive 

 and suggestive essays might be easily composed on some of the 

 topics above enumerated; for example, on its supposed ancient 

 connection with the mainland of Hants, when the centre of the 

 Solent was the bed of a river ; and on the contingency still in 

 the womb of futurity, when the peninsula of Freshwater has 

 become an island, and the little river Yar a strait separating the 

 new islet from the mainland of the eastern and larger portion of 

 the island. 



The trade in tin, believed to have been carried on by the Vec- 

 tians of a long bygone age, centuries ere the haughty Roman 

 taught the ancient Britons the superiority of Rome in warfare 

 and civilization, — and the coastguard, soon to be numbered 



