UOO REVIEWS — OVERLAND ROUTE TO BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



has been already forwarded to His Excellency the Governor General 

 of India. 



12. The specimens for Lahore have been forwarded under separate 

 covers. 



REVIEWS. 



A Sketch of an Overland Route to British Columbia. By Henry 

 Youle Hind, M,A., F.R.G.S., Professor of Chemistry and Geology 

 in the University of Trinity College, Toronto. Toronto : W. C. 

 Chewett & Co. 1862. 



Professor Hind has here brought together, from his own previous 

 writings and personal knowledge of the country, and from the best 

 authorities relating to that portion which lies beyond the limits of his 

 own travels, an amount of useful information scarcely to be obtained 

 elsewhere, and of the greatest importance to emigrants who are in- 

 clined to prefer the overland route. He has chosen what is really 

 valuable, and given it in the most concise form, thus making his work 

 at once portable and generally accessible. To the matter furnished 

 by Professor Hind is added a letter of five and thirty pages, addressed 

 to the author at his request, by Sandford Fleming, Esq., C.E., Engi- 

 neer to the Northern Railway of Canada, containing "Practical 

 Observations on the Construction of a Continuous Line of Railway 

 from Canada to the Pacific Ocean, on British Territory." This is a 

 subject of peculiar interest. It may seem to be specially pressed 

 upon our attention at the present moment by the wants of emigrants 

 seeking the Columbian gold regions, but its interest is really far 

 higher in connection with the future course of an important part of 

 the world's commerce, and with the settlement of a vast fertile region 

 lying in the interior along and for some distance about the proposed 

 line. Already the Red River settlement is becoming well known, and 

 exciting no small attention. Its future is indeed not only most im- 

 portant to its inhabitants, present and prospective, but is eminently 

 important to Canada and to the whole British Empire. It is so 

 because the colony is sure to extend and increase in wealth, in pro- 



