1838.] 



Prooress of Geography in 1836-7. 



of his subject, has obtained much useful statistical information respect- 

 ing the present 8tate and capabilities of this beautiful island. 



Russia.— The new map of this vast empire, in 59 sheets, by the 

 Depol-topographiquH, on the scale of T^-g^^-rr o. comprises ].art of the in- 

 formation collected by Herr Adolph Ei nmn, in his important journey 

 from St. Petersbnrg to M )skow, and by Kazan and Perm, across 

 the Ural Mountains to Tobolsk, and along the Obi to Obdorsk. The 

 first volume of llie personal narrative of this journey is filled with geo- 

 graphical details on this li tle known countrv, as far as the mouth of 

 the river Oi>i; also with inf •rmati«>n regarding the mines in the Ural, 

 the hydrogi Hphy of tht- WolgM, &o. &c. 



A paper ** On the Varieties of Climate and Productions in the Kussian 

 Empire," puVdihhed in the Agricultural Gazette, at Sf. Petersburg, 

 and translated inio the Quarterly Journal of Agricultur -,* contains an 

 ablf summnry of this subject, and much useful information. 



The results of a chronometric expediiion round the Baltic, by the 

 Russian General Schiibfrt, in 1833, have been published during the 

 past yenr, and kindly transmitted to thf' G^oi/raphical Society by M, 

 Kupffer.t They give the relative position of seventy-seven important 

 points. 



Traversing 900 miles of latitude, we reach the spot on the shores of 

 the Blark Sea, whf^re the new series of observations is to commence, 

 to determine the difF-rence of level between it and the Caspian. The 

 direciic^n of this nnderiakiny is confided to Messrs. G. Fuss, Sabler, 

 and Saviich ; and the line Sf'Iected is from Novo Tcherkask, near the 

 mouth of the river Don, to Stavropol, and thence to Kisliaronthe 

 Caspian, a distance in a direct line of aliout 3i)0 geographical miles, on 

 a general bearing of noriii-west and south-east. Thus iht^re is every 

 probability of the long contested question in physical geography of the 

 depression of the Caspian Sea being finally set at rest. 



Caucasia. —On the Caucasian provinces, especially interesting at 

 this day, we have a notice in the work of M. Charles Belanger's 

 " Voyages aix Ides Orientales," &c. ; also in M. de Marigny's " Three 

 Voyages," and Herr Nordmann's scientific tcur in the Black Sea. 

 The Academy has al-o published during the last year M. Kupffer's 

 observations during his travels in the Caucasus, and the continuation of 



See Quarterly Jourual, No. 32. 



+ See Journal R. S., vol. ri. p, 413. 



