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region. It is, however, neither sufficiently abundant nor of such a 

 quality as to be worth the cost of working. 

 Coal of Carboniferous age is developed — 



1. On the eastern and western slopes of the Oural mountains. 



2. In the governments of Novgorod, Iver, Moscow, Kalouga, Toula, 



and Eiazan. The coal occupies a large elliptical basin, six 

 hundred versts in length and four hundred in width, in the 

 centre of which the town of Moscow is situated. 



3. In Samara, a little peninsula formed by the river Volga, near 



Stavrpool ; and 



4. In the government of Ekaterinoslav, where the coal-beds form a 



chain of low mountains called the Donetz, and are associated 

 with abundant deposits of iron, which latter have not at 

 present been worked for economic purposes ; though they 

 would well repay the cost. 

 The Carboniferous beds of Eussia all belong to the lower member 

 of the Carboniferous system, equivalent to the " Carboniferous lime- 

 stone " of G-reat Britain. The Russian beds, however, are mainly 

 composed of sandstone, with intercalated beds of limestone and coal. 

 In a map which accompanies the pamphlet, the author has carefully 

 indicated the extent of Carboniferous strata in Eussia, and has in- 

 serted, also, the railways in order that their respective relations may 

 be understood. It is to the want of railways that the coal and iron 

 resources of the Oural, and of the Donetz mountains, have not been 

 rendered available to anything like the extent to which they are 

 capable. 



The author concludes by expressing a hope that before long 

 Eussia will not be dependent upon foreign countries for the supply 

 of iron and coal it requires, when it is so largely developed in its 

 own dominions. 



laS'VIE^WS. 



I. — Physical GtEogeaphy. By Professor D. T. Ansted, M.A., 

 F.E.S., F.aS., etc. Wm. H. Allen and Co., 13, Waterloo Place, 

 Pall Mall, London. 1867. 



THE well known author of several geological works has recently 

 given to us this highly interesting volume upon Physical 

 Geography ; attaching a very wide signification to the name, and 

 entering at considerable length into statements of a multitude of 

 subjects belonging to, or connected with, physical science. 



The impossibility of treating this science in such a manner as to 

 render it light reading is noticed in the preface, and the object of the 

 volume is stated to be to enable the general reader to obtain an 

 outline of its main facts, in language as simple and definite as 

 possible. It is further said to involve " not only a statement of 

 numerous facts, but a great classification of facts, and much close 

 reasoning," and also, " it needs an effort on the part of the reader to 

 appreciate the array of facts and observations on which it is based ; 



