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rpRAVELS in Palestine , through the 
countries of Bashan and Gilead , east 
of the River Jordan: including a Visit to 
the Cities of Geraza and Garnala , in the 
Decapolis , by J. S. Buckingham, is a 
work of great interest and importance, and 
forms a valuable addition to the numerous 
volumes of travels into the Holy Land 
which have been published during these 
last ten years. Mr. Buckingham seems to 
have been peculiarly fitted, by early habits 
and pursuits, for the task he has under¬ 
taken. His wanderings commenced at a 
very early period of his life. He went to 
sea at nine years of age, and the year fol¬ 
lowing was made prisoner of war, and 
conveyed into the port of Corunna. From 
1796, up to the time of his settlement at 
Calcutta, (where he is, we are informed, 
the editor of the Calcutta Gazette) Mr. 
Buckingham visited the finest parts of 
Spain and Portugal 5 America, the Baha¬ 
ma islands, and the West Indies, Egypt, 
Greece, Phoenicia, Italy, and Mauritania. 
To his perseverance we are indebted for 
some valuable charts, without which the 
navigation of several parts of the Red Sea 
would be dangerous, and at certain periods 
almost impracticable. In the course of his 
last journey, Mr. B. saw the greater part 
of Palestine, and the country beyond the 
Jordan, traversed Moab, Bashan, Gilead, 
and the Auramtesj crossed Phoenicia, and 
the higher parts of Syria in various direc¬ 
tions from Baalbek and Lebanon, to the 
sea coast, and from Antioch by the banks 
of the Orontes, to Aleppo. He next jour¬ 
neyed through Mesopotamia to Ninevah 
and Babylon, and on his way visited Diar- 
bekr, Mosul, and Bagdad. Exploring 
his way through the mountains into Persia, 
he saw Ecbatana, Persepolis, and Shapoor; 
with Kermanshah, Harmadan, Isfahaun, 
and Shiraz, where the two great Persian 
poets, Sadi and Ferdousi, are entombed. 
On his return to Bombay our traveller be¬ 
gan to arrange the materials of which the 
present volume is composed. To make 
amends for the want of novelty consequent 
upon all details respecting Palestine, Mr. 
B. has introduced numerous and learned 
disquisitions illustrative of the sacred 
writings, and has corrected many errors, 
which, like the mummies of the Egyptians, 
have only been consecrated for their anti¬ 
quity. Tyne Acre, Nazareth, Mounts 
Tabor, and Carmel; Cesarea, Jaffa, Jeru¬ 
salem, Rumlah, and the holy places round 
the sacred city, have all been described 
by Mr. B.’s predecessors. Those portions of 
his volume, therefore, will be found to be 
most important, which are the details 
respecting the country beyond the Jordan, 
in which he has not been anticipated by 
other travellers. The minute descriptions 
of Geraza, Soof, Oom Cais, the ruins of 
the ancient Garnala Nazareth, Tiberias, 
Shechem, Mount Ebal, Gerizim, and the 
Wells of Samaria, are full of interestj and 
as they have not been touched upon before, 
afford valuable records of a country which 
has been an object of curiosity from the 
earliest ages. Tbe style is worthy of the 
materials. Numerous curious and erudite 
notes are scattered over the work, which is 
further illustrated by some excellent charts 
and plans, and a series of neatly engraved 
vignettes. 
Some of our readers may probably have 
seen the newly-invented ornamental in¬ 
crustations in glass, called Crystallo Ce- 
ramie. By this process, ornaments of any 
description, arms, cyphers, portraits, and 
landscapes of any variety of colour may 
be introduced into the glass, so as to be¬ 
come perfectly imperishable. An account 
of this curious invention may be found in a 
small quarto volume, lately published, 
called A Memoir on the Origin , Progress, 
and Improvement of Glass Manufactures; 
including an Account of the Patent Crys¬ 
tallo Ceramie , or Glass Incrustations. 
This discovery is not only useful in pro¬ 
ducing very beautiful ornamental works, 
but miniatures may likewise be enamelled 
on it, and the colours will thus be retained 
by being embodied in the crystal, so as, in 
fact, to become as imperishable as the 
crystal itself. The Memoir contains a cu¬ 
rious historical account of the process of 
glass-making, both among the ancients and 
in modern times. Some explanatory co¬ 
loured plates are given, which, however, 
scarcely convey an idea of the beauty of 
the ornaments themselves. 
Our medical readers will be entertained 
and interested by the perusal of a Treatise 
on A cupuncturation, by James Morss 
Churchill, Member of the Royal College 
of Surgeons, London. This operation, as 
the name imports, consists in inserting a 
needle into the muscular parts of the body, 
to the depth, sometimes, of an inch. The 
instantaneous effect of this singular remedy 
in alleviating pains of a rheumatic nature, 
is truly surprising aud unaccountable ; but 
the 
