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Progress of Geography in 1836-7. 



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the zeal, and energy, and perseverance of Colonel Cbesney, who, in 

 spite of obstacles of no ordinary character, has accomplished his diffi- 

 cult task. The geographical information obtained, which must be 

 very important, has not yet been made public. 



On a neighbouring river, the Tigris, we have the accurate observa- 

 tions of the lamented Mr. Rich, (too early taken away from his sphere 

 of usefulness) ; also an account of his journey into Kurdistan, his 

 residence at Baghdad, and on the site of the ancient Nineveh j which 

 have been made public during the past year. 



Syria. — Here we must again cite Berghaus' map, as the best we 

 have yet seen of this country.* Mr. Barker has contributed an ac- 

 count of a journey to the source of the river Orontes, and of the pas- 

 sage of Lebanon; and we hear that a spirited young Irishman, Mr. 

 George Moore, instead of loitering in fashionable pilgrimage along 

 the beaten paths of Palestine, has actually devoted the past year to a 

 minute geographic examination of the Dead Sea and its shores. 



We hope the time is come that some geographer will take in hand a 

 map of this region, profiling by the data that would be willingly sup- 

 plied by the numerous travellers that have journeyed over every part 

 of both Syria and Palestine, and endeavour to complete a map worthy 

 of a country which must ever possess a higher interest than any other 

 on the surface of the globe. 



Asia Minor. — Still proceeding westward, we come to the journeys of 

 MM. Callier and Texier, in Asia Minor, of both of which we have 

 yet only very brief accounts. Our own countrymen, Mr. Brant, in 

 1835, and more lately Mr. W. 1. Hamilton, in 1836, have given us routes 

 throughout Anatolia and Armenia, from the shores of the Mediterra- 

 nean to the frontier of Persia. The former has contributed a new 

 route by the Russian frontier ; the latter several routes, over less fre- 

 quented parts of the country, throughout which he has paid great at- 

 tention to its geology and its physical geography. 



The survey of the western shore of Anatolia, to unite with that of 

 Karamania, by Captain Beaufort, is now in progress, under the direc- 

 tion of Lieut. Graves, R. N., and will thus complete the coast-line of 

 the more western portion of Asia. 



* We had hoped ere this to have profited by the observations of M. Callier, who three 

 years since travelled through this country, but they seem not to have been yet made 

 public. 



