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third part as far as to the description of ’Akka, and the latest and best maps of 
the region, including the large route map of the Dead Sea expedition. At the 
commencement of his third volume he gives us a very complete list of standard 
or popular works on Palestine, Jerusalem, &c., with highly useful remarks on 
their comparative trustworthiness and value. 
As a dedication, although placed at the commencement of a hook, is com-* 
monly the portion of it which is the last to he penned, it is quite legitimate for 
a commentator, like an author, to postpone its consideration to the end of his 
labours. A name may he inscribed on the front page of a work as a matter of 
form, or in deference to some exalted personage ; but it is more appropriately 
that of an authority from whose learning, researches, or other aid, the author 
has derived signal advantage. The first two volumes of the present edition 
were originally inscribed to Lord Prudhoe, whose investigations, carried on in 
Egypt and the adjacent countries to which those volumes relate, prove that his 
Lordship is entitled to such a recognition not solely on account of his dis- 
tinguished rank. The third volume has been dedicated by Professor Eobinson 
“To William Martin Leake, Esq., the model traveller,” Assuredly the acute- 
ness, care, and learning displayed by Col. Leake, in his published works on 
classic regions, could not fail to be recognised by a practical investigator of the 
stamp of Professor Eobinson, who has thus worthily testified his admiration of 
the abilities and acquirements of our learned confrere ; and the testimony ac- 
corded by this dedication is honourable alike to the discrimination of him who 
gives it, and to him by whom it is received. 
4. Hutchinson s Western Africa. Longman and Co., 1858. 
Mr. Hutchinson has resided for eight years in Western Africa, and was the 
officer in medical charge of the Pleiad's crew during Dr. Baikie’s expedition 
up the Tsadda in 1854. During the last two years he has occupied his present 
position of British Consul for the Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po, in which 
districts his acquaintance with the African coast first commenced. 
The former part of his volume is occupied with cursory remarks on the 
numerous settlements in West Africa, from Portandick down to Palma, but 
more copious information is afforded as to the scenes of his present duties. 
The chapters on Fernando Po will be of great interest to those who shared in 
the opinion entertained by the late Sir T. F. Buxton and others, that the geo- 
graphical position of this lofty island marked it out as a most important station 
whence European influence might act upon the civilization of Western Africa. 
The account given by Mr. Hutchinson of the whole history of our connection 
with this island is the only one that has yet been published, so far as the 
writer of the present notice is aware, and it is to the following effect. 
Fernando Po was discovered by the Portuguese in 1471, ceded, for some 
equivalent, to Spain in 1778, together with the neighbouring island of Anno 
Bon, and in the same year taken possession of by her by means of a large 
expedition which contained 150 intended settlers. But the fate of this expe- 
dition was disastrous : the old Portuguese settlers at Anno Bon considered the 
new comers as intruders, and resisted and repulsed them. They then settled 
at Fernando Po, but in three years the climate had carried off 128 out of the 
150, and the survivors were then recalled to Spain, and from that date until 
1843 “ the Spanish Government seems to have blotted Fernando Po out of 
their maps.” 
In 1827 the English Government was induced to establish a colony on this 
island. The settlement was commenced by Captain Owen. The ground was 
formally taken possession of in the presence and with the permission of two 
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