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the sea-side, and which will give to those who haye no opportunity of studying ; 
the creatures themselves, an excellent insight into the extent and beauty of this 
section of the deep.” —Weekly News. 
: VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 
TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON AND RIO NEGRO. By 
Aurrep R, Wattacr, Ese. With Remarks on the Vocabu- 
laries of Amazonian Languages, by R. G. Lataam, M.D., 
F.R.S. With Plates and Maps. 8vo, 18s. 
“Mr, Wallace has given us a most lively and interesting deseription of the 
glories of the magnificent river. Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, 
and Brazil, six mighty States, spreading over an area far more extensive than 
Burope herself, contribute their aid in forming the flood up which he toiled. Mor 
twenty-eight days consecutively he breasted the stream of the Amazon. . He 
enters, with all the zest of a naturalist, into the history of the living things which 
fly, run, or creep over the surface of the countr y. lis sketches of the natives, 
their appearance, habits, and disposition, are quite original, and therefore instrne- 
tive and interesting. Br itannia. 
“Mr. Wallace’s explorations on the Amazon and Rio Negro, the northern 
branch of that mighty river, form an enchanting work. In the novelty of its 
scenery and manners, in the truthful, albeit somewhat literal, picture of what the 
traveller saw and felt, in the quict earnestness by which obstacles were sur- 
mounted, by Talleyrand’s favourite rule of waiting, and in the patience with 
which sickness, sullering, and privation were submitted to, ‘ ‘Travels on the 
Amazon and Rio Negro’ remind us of the simplicity of the old voyagers,”—Spee- 
tator, 
WESTERN HIMALAYA AND TIBET; the Narrative of a 
Journey through the Mountains of Northern India, during the 
Years 1847— 8. By Tuomas Tuomson, M.D. With Tinted 
Lithographs and a new Map by Petermann. 8vo, 15s. 
“Pew more valuable volumes of travels than this by Dr. Thomson have been 
for a long time past published. Long after the interest which its novelty will 
create shall have passed away, it will be a standard book of reference on account 
of the valuable facts which it contains, and of the spirit of sound observation in 
which it is written,”—<Atheneum, 
“The work is one of durable importance. ‘The most general reader will not 
find Dr. Thomson’s journey tedious... . . We have in*this volume: matter 
which will inform every man who reads it steadily, and follows the author's 
route with attention to the Map.”—Axaminer. 
«Mo all those who desire to judge scientifically of what is possible i in the cul- 
tivation of the Tndo-Alpine Flora, which is now so rapidly enriching our gardens, 
works of this deseription have great interest.’— Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
“We can most cordially recommend Dr. Thomson’s work to all those who wish 
to obtain a clear idea of this magnificent and interesting region, to which our 
late conquest in the Punjaub has brought us into such close contiguity.”— 
Guardian. 
«This is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of a remote and lately ex- 
: plored tract of the earth’s surface.”— Advertiser. 
