939 Catalogue Raisonné. 
ters, and particularly supported by Playfair, as confirmatory of the 
Huttonian theory. 
_ Analysis of Galena, from Castleland Hill, near Inverkeithing. 
By Mr. A. Rospertson Jun. Inverkeithing.—Jbid, p. 256. 
“ The galena of Castleland Hill is partly massive, and partly in very re- 
gular octahedral! crystals, some of them almost as large as a pullet’s egg. 
It is contained partly in greenstone, partly in a quartzy sandstone, both 
belonging to the coal formation. It appears to have been disposed in a 
vein, not in a bed, or irregularly intermingled with the neighbouring 
rocks.” 
We can discover nothing new in this analysis, the statement of which is 
“« sulphur 13.21, lead 84.63 = 97.84.” 
Naturgeschichtliche Reisen durch Nord-Afrika, &c. Travels in 
northern Africa and the west of Asia, from the year 1820 to 1826. 
By F. Hempricu and G. Enrensere. In Svo. with Map and 
Plates in 4to. Berlin, 1828.—Historical Part. 
This narrative of a journey is divided into eight chapters or sections :— 
journey from Trieste to Egypt; residence at Montenegro and Cattaro; 
mineralogical, botanical, and zoological description of the Cattaro, (the 
language of the country is Illyric; the natives have a well marked 
national character ;) arrival at Alexandria; the pretended Pompey’s 
pillar, by the Arabians called Amude; portrait of the pacha Mehemed 
Ali; preparations for a journey into the desert ; excursion preparatory 
to the journey into the desert of Libya; on the Bedouins ; journey in 
the desert of Libya, as far as Katabathmus Minor ; journey to the Ka- 
tabathmus Magnus of the desert of Libya; upen the traces of Pareto- 
nium ; journey to the base of Jupiter Ammon; departure from Suva ; 
visit to a mountain of catacombs ; mineralogical excursion to the plateau 
of the desert, north-east of Suva; description of the precipice of. Kara, 
and of its buildings ; departure for Masr and Kahira, after the opening 
of the Nile near Fuca; arrival at Boulack, suburbs of Caire. The large 
illustrated map contains the itinerary of the travellers. Mr. Hemprich 
died og the road, as well as eight other European companions. Mr. 
Ehrenberg, our readers will remember, is now gone with Baron Hum- 
boldt into the interior of Asia. 
Zapisski izdavaiemouia Gossoudarstvennimme admiralteiskimme 
departamentomme. Memoirs published by the Imperial Depart- 
ment of the Marine. 
Navigation of the Russian Sleop Apollo in 1621, 22, 23, and 
24, under the order of Caprain ToLousier. St. Petersburgh, 
1826. Vol. X. 
Navigation of the Sloop Ladoga in 1822, 23,24. Vol. XI. 
The first of these expeditions, whose object was to transport to Okhotsk 
and to Petropavlovsk. different materials necessary for the fortification 
of these harbours, and to visit the Russian colonies situated upon the 
N. E. coast of America, presents nothing very remarkable in a scientific 
point of view. Captain Kroustchof, who took the place, in the command 
of the sloop Apollo, of Mr. Touloubief, deceased during the voyage, re- 
entered the harbour of Cronstadt the 15th of October 1824, after a voy- 
age of three years and seventeen days. 
The voyage of the sloop Ladoga, under the orders of Lieutenant Lazarof, 
which took glace in 1922, 23, and 24, with similar objects, also offers no- 
thing interesting to science. 
Mz. Lazarof observes in his narrative, that, at his passage at Novo-Arch- 
angelsk, (New Archangell,) he did every thing in his power to discover 
the land, whose existence Commodore Behring thought he had ascertain- 
ed the 12th June 1741, at the time when he was in latitude 49° north, 
