V. Monumens de l'Egypte et de la Nubie. D'après les Dessins exécutés sur les Lieux, sous la direction de VI. Tragedie di Giovanni Battista Niccolini . VII. Histoire des Francs. Par M. le Comte de Peyronnet 15 17 X. England im Jahre 1835. Von Friedrich von Raumer. . 219 XI. 1. Bericht über eine Reise nach den Westlichen Staaten Nord-Amerikas. Von Gottfried Duden. XIII. Des Meisters Godefrit Hagen, der Zeit Stadtschreibers, XIV. Le Monde comme il est. Par le Marquis de Custine XV. The Portfolio; or a Collection of State Papers illustra→ Miscellaneous Literary Notices, No. XXXIII., from France, Ger- many, Norway, Russia, Spain,-Oriental Literature . 236 List of the Principal New Works published on the Continent, from I.-Reise in Chile, Peru, und auf dem Amazonenstrome, rend der Jahre, 1827-1832. Von Edward Poeppig. avels in Chili and Peru, and on the River Amazons, in the s 1827-1832.) 2 Vol. 4to. with Atlas of 16 plates. the numerous volumes which have been published within Few years relative to the several countries of South Amehe appearance of two quartos, containing between 900 000 closely printed pages, might justly excite some doubts propriety of drawing so largely on the time and patience reader, perhaps we should say of the reviewer, as the may, but the reviewer must, peruse the books set before It is certainly true that, since those vast regions threw off allegiance to the mother country, numerous European s have resorted to them, a few attracted by curiosity and f science, and more by hope of gain; and that many of have published reports of their observations and discoveries. without discussing the greater or less degree of merit of works, it may be observed that none of the authors made a residence in the countries visited by Dr. Poeppig, in a scientific view, and that some, having passed only a few there, could neither penetrate into the interior and the less nted parts, nor even acquire a sufficient insight into what more immediately under their notice. But longer experias our author justly remarks, often causes us to see things. ifferent point of view, and at the end of the year we might, os, gladly disavow the opinion which we suffered to escape ts commencement. Dr. Poeppig, therefore, having spent uccessive years in those interesting countries, we felt that uld depend at least on his having given us the result of e consideration, and accordingly opened his volumes with rable degree of confidence that we should find them deg of attention.Nor have we been disappointed. We Found the work replete with new and interesting information YVI NO YYYIL B 2 Poeppig's Travels in Chili, Peru, communicated in an agreeable manner, and calculated to g very favourable idea of the acquirements, perseverance, and partiality of the author. Dr. Poeppig was besides not a n in such enterprises. He had previously visited the fine islan Cuba, and was in the United States, where he had been waiting for letters from Europe, which enabled him to set ou his intended voyage to South America. The This plan originated with a few zealous friends of nat history in Germany, who confided the execution of it to author, and supplied him with funds for the purpose. mediate object was to collect specimens of natural history i great a number as possible; and the result, as stated by Poeppig, is highly creditable to his industry. Seventeen th sand specimens of dried plants, many hundred stuffed anim and a great number of other natural productions, which w distributed among the patrons of the expedition; the introduct into our gardens of many very interesting plants before unknow three thousand descriptions of plants made on the spot, especi with regard to such parts of the flowers as it would be more ficult to examine subsequently; thirty finished drawings of la scape scenery; forty drawings of Aroideæ, on the largest sca thirty drawings of Orchidea; numerous sketches; and a priv botanical collection of extraordinary extent, are a portion of fruits of that journey. Yet it may be affirmed that the sum allot for it was the smallest with which such an undertaking ever v commenced and happily completed. But this narrowness of means necessarily subjected the traveller to great hardships and vations; it did not allow him to take with him an attendant the inmost recesses of the forest. Even this was less painful him than the want of instruments for observation, after own were lost at the commencement of his journey, and pecuniary means would not allow him to purchase others. B says he, "what personal industry and goodwill could contribu to success was done, when, in some remote Indian village of the P mæval forests, month after month passed over the head of the lone wanderer, who had not even a native servant with him, and oft depended for his precarious subsistence on his own skill or go fortune in fishing or with his gun: who sometimes had to pa the night alone on the summits of the Andes, sometimes to ste his little bark on the gigantic streams of the New Worl through the silent and solitary wilderness: and, at length, as recompense for many dangers, happily returned to his nativ land, richly laden with the natural treasures of remote regions." Dr. Poeppig was at Philadelphia in August 1826, when h received the letters from Europe, which determined him to se and he immediately proceeded to Baltimore, where it was at much easier to meet with a vessel bound to the South Seas any other port. He had however to wait six weeks for the of the Gulnare, of 300 tons, which happily proved to be strong ship and an excellent sailer. The description of oyages, observes Dr. Poeppig, is an equally difficult and eful task, especially in our times, when so great a number m have been described, and some in a masterly manner. ith respect to the greater part of them the uniformity of a sea seems to have affected the style and the imagination of riters, and to have rendered them dull and tedious. He ore dwells but little on his naval adventures, and we shall his example, extracting only a few passages. hus the evening gradually approaches, and is announced by a liminution of the current of air. It is in vain for language to t a description of the splendour of a sunset in these latitudes. e only time of day when the groups of singularly formed, yet light nsparent, clouds range themselves on the horizon. Their transxistence favours the changing play of colours, because the rea of the more oblique rays of the sun produces the most extraoreffects. Even after we have repeatedly beheld the rising or setting sun from the summit of the Alps, or indeed from the top of the we are constrained to give unconditional preference to the same as viewed on the tropical ocean. While one side of the ship is mined with the last uncertain rays of the setting sun, the sea other side, darkened by the broad shadow of the sails, begins to . One fiery point after another appears; indistinct rays of light From a greater depth; and, as darkness sets in, a new creation to be called into life. Luminous creatures glance in every direcrough the dark expanse of water; now shooting up like sparksising in globules of fire, or passing away with the rapidity of ng-a great part are probably real nocturnal animals, which 1 themselves in the sea from the light of the sun." We were now within four English miles of the celebrated Cape which has a twofold interest, as being the terminating point of an se continent, and the witness of many of those vast enterprizes ich the daring European has carried his empire and civilization to motest regions. This promontory is indeed worthy to mark the limits of so vast a portion of the globe: from whatever side it is 1, it appears an isolated majestic mass, boldly standing out in the Pacific, and by its calm grandeur attesting the victory of the solid he fluid. The large and solitary rock of which the Cape is formed like that of Terra del Fuego and of Statenland, split into various ; the land, rising from the north-east, unites in one rounded, ken promontory, and, after attaining its greatest elevation, sinks perpendicularly into the sea, towards the south. The enormous of black rock, unenlivened by the slightest trace of vegetation, Poeppig's Travels in Chili, Peru, whose summit has never afforded habitation to man, and is inacce even to the savage boldly bids defiance to all the storms of the Anta Even the countless flocks of sea-birds which swarm in these latitud not settle there, for they find more secure retreats in the lower isl and among the prickly grasses and umbelliferous plants of the Anta Flora. "It is pretty generally believed that, after reaching the we entrance of the Straits of Magellan, the doubling of Cape Horn mɛ considered as accomplished, and consequently all danger at an end. far as it is scarcely possible for a ship to be driven back again to meridian of that cape, or even to the eastward of it, the victory ma said to be achieved. But the navigation of the coast from Cape H to Chiloe is very dangerous; for this coast is in many places surrou by undescribed rocks, and on the whole very imperfectly known. T is a very powerful current, at least periodically, in the direction of Straits of Magellan to the land; and the many channels with which archipelago of the coast is intersected, produce, in like manner, very gular currents." To the north of Cape Pilares a change in the temperat both of the atmosphere and of the sea became very sensible. sides the usual attendants, albatrosses and other animals pecu to those regions, the author says, "We met with a very elegant porpoise, streaked black and p white (Delphinus Leucoramphus), and that in numbers which seemed border on the incredible; for the end of the shoal, which was pre broad, was frequently indiscernible from the topmast. ... We w surrounded by them for several days. The observation that they w going in a south-westerly direction makes it difficult to divine the reas of their emigration, because the Antarctic winter must in a few wee commence, in the seas lying in that quarter. But another phenomen soon excited our attention in a much greater degree. On the 12th March, precisely at noon, we were not a little alarmed by a consideral noise upon deck, and by the order immediately to lie to. The dirty r colour of the sea had produced the very reasonable suspicion that v were upon a shoal. However, upon sounding, there was no bottom wi one hundred and thirty fathoms. From the topmast, the sea appeare as far as the eye could reach, of a dark red colour, and this in a strea the breadth of which was estimated at six English miles, and which he and there spread into short side branches. As we sailed slowly alon we found that the colour changed into brilliant purple, so that even th foam, which is always seen at the stern of a ship under sail, was of rose colour. The sight was very striking, because this purple strea was marked by a very distinct line from the blue waters of the sea, circumstance which we the more easily observed, because our course la directly through the midst of this streak, which extended from south-eas to north-west. The water, taken up in a bucket, appeared indeed quit transparent; but a faint purple tinge was visible when a few drops were placed upon a piece of white china and moved rapidly backwards and |