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NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
1. Recueil de 37 Itineraires dans la Turquie d’ Hurope, Details Geographiques, 
Topographiques, and Statistiques de cet Empire. Vienna, 1854. 1 vol. 8vo, of 
more than 600 pages. By Ami Boué. 
A work thoroughly revised. It forms a necessary commentary to a new map 
by Kiepert, in 4 sheets. Many geographic desiderata are fully illustrated, 
as, for example, the structure of the large chains of the rhodope, the Po- 
tamography of North Albany, &c, It contains statistics not only of each 
Paschalik, but also of towns and even villages in many parts of that coun- 
try. It is a work of great importance to military men, as in it they will 
find described the condition of the chief roads, the best military positions 
of the country, and the localities where an army would find provisions, 
and obtain hay in abundance. 
2. Sur ’Establissement de bonnes Routes surtout de Chemins de fer dans la 
Turquie d Europe. By M. Ami Boué. Vienna. 52 pp in 8vo. 
This pamphlet contains much important information on the means to be 
adopted to civilize rapiuly the Empire. 
3. The West Indies before and since Slave Kmancipation; comprising the 
Windward and Leewards Islands, Military Command; founded on Notes and 
Observations collected during a Three Years’ Residence. By John Davy, M.D., 
F.R.S., &c., Inspector-General of Army Hospitals. 8vo, pp. 551. 
We have in this volume an admirable outline of the history of the West 
‘Indies. The talented author lays before us much interesting and valuable 
information on meteorology, geology, ethnology, agriculture, and political 
economy of the Windward and Leeward Islands—Barbadoes, St Vincent, 
the Grenadines, Grenada, Tobago, St Lucia, Trinidad, British Guiana, 
Antigua, Montserratt, St Christopher, Nevis, Dominica, West Indian 
towns; and an extremely important concluding chapter on the defects as 
to labour, education, sanitary measures, and the management of estates, &c. 
We recommend this work not only to all interested in our West Indian 
colony, but also to the general reader, as it contains much important 
and novel knowledge on natural science. 
4, A Manual of Natural History for the Use of Travellers; being a descrip- 
tion of the Families of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms; with remarks on 
the practical study of Geology and Meteorology. To which are appended Direc- 
tions for Collecting and Preserving. By Arthur Adams, Esq., Dr Balfour, and 
Charles Barrow, Esq. 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 749. John Van Voorst, Paternoster 
Row, London, 1854. 
This work contains much useful information, and has a valuable index, 
which is important to the student of natural history. 
