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whole coast was found to be mountainous, and many parts were 
highly picturesque. We have seen Captain Scoresby ’s charts, 
and find that his surveys are founded on about 500 bearings or 
angles, besides 200 or 300 more for the deviation and variation 
of the compass, and that these were taken at fifty different sta- 
tions, mostly determined astronomically. In addition to this 
survey, he has taken drawings of the land, determined the depth 
of the water and currents, the variation of the compass, &c. 
England has been always pre-eminently distinguished in mari- 
time discovery and adventure, and in no age has her enterprise, 
both public and private, exceeded the present ; Parry, Scoresby, 
and Franklin, are indeed proud names even for this great coun- 
try. Parry, we hope, is safe, and destined to return to Europe, 
one of the greatest discoverers of this active and energetic age. 
Franklin, with the friends and companions of his dreadful jour- 
neys, Richardson and Rack, are now preparing their journals for 
the public ; and Captain Scoresby, we understand, is about to 
put to press the deeply interesting history of his investigations 
and adventures, on the re-discovered coasts of West Greenland. 
41. Steam-Boats in Italy. — The American Consul at Trieste 
has, it appears, established a steam-boat called the Carolina , 
which performs every Monday the voyage between that port 
and Venice. Another, called the Eridano , performs the voyage 
from Venice to Pavia on the Po, in thirty-seven hours. A mer- 
chant vessel, richly laden, was lately saved from shipwreck by 
the Carolina steam-boat, when no other vessel could leave the 
harbour from the severity of the weather. — Professor Silliman’s 
American Journal of Science , vol. iv. p. 377. 
42. Scientific and Literary Travels.— Professor Nevi has 
been employed by the Emperor of Russia to make researches in 
the steppes of Independent Tartary, and to examine the course 
of the Oxus, and the towns of Balk and Sarmacand, The ex- 
pedition will extend perhaps as far as the Lake Saisan. Ambas- 
sadors have been previously sent to prepare the way in these 
countries, which are so little known. 1 ; and there is reason to 
think, that at least much geographical knowledge will result from 
the expedition. 
That public-spirited nobleman Count Romanzoff, who fitted 
out, at his own cxpence, the expedition under Kotzebue for cir- 
