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The World Surveyed in the XIXth Century. geographical information; and his 'Negroland and the Arabs' indicates that, with habits of scrupulous and accurate information he combines powers of condensed yet clear expression and narrative. With these qualifications there is good reason to hope that he may cull an interesting and instructive compendium from the somewhat diffuse and occasionally rather ostentatiously scientific productions of continental travellers and literati. T HE selection of Professor Parrot's Journey to Mount Ararat is judicious on more accounts than one. But there is especially a popular interest attached to the Mountain which the traditions both of Christian and Mahomedan nations associate with one of the most impressive events in the earliest records of our race. 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