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591711 AM ERICA. MEXICO.

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Irfq HE GEOGRAPII Y, HISTORY, anal STATIS-
TICS of NORTH and SOUTH A3IERICA and the
' WEST INDIES.
By H. C. CAREY and J. LEA.
With considerable Additions relative to the New States of South
America, Altaic°, the Bavannah, &c.
" The pubilmtion before us contains by far the meet rentable
sondensat too of American 0 eogriMay , I I vital y, ADIS Statist' .v. u h irk)
has issued from the press. It is constructed on a comprehensive and
excellent plan ; the snaps. charts, and plates are numerous and well
executed ; and when all the modern information repired by the
changes and revolutions on the new Continent Is taken into the
account, we are free to say that It Is a very complete illustration
of the important matters which it embraces Either for instruc-
tion or reference, it is sticulated to be i standard work."—Litt-
easy Gazette, March 2S. •
London: Printed for Sherwood, Jones, and Co. Paternoster-row;
by whom abut are published.
I. A NEV GENERAL. ATLAS, containing a complete set
of Maps, drawn trim the best authorities, of all the principal King-
doms and States in the World; to which is prefixed, an Introduc-
tion to Geography, and on the Construction and use of Maps ; by
Thomas Myers. LL.D. of the Royal Military Acadomy,•Wool-
with ; Author of the " New and Comprehensive System of Mo-
dern Geography," &c. &e.
In quarto, prise One Quints, half-bound ; or fall coloured,
IL Ilallsk
ThloAtlas letludes all the recent discoveries ; and the beim-
dens of sbe.sevesal States are sarefully delineated, Isis wisely
new set of plates, agreeably to the present improved state of gen-
I graphical science • several of the Maps, as these of Central Asia,
Southern Africa, the new States of South America, &e. being given
on am enlarged scale, so as to exhibit, with fidelity, the va-
ries; natural and political distinctions. The Introductory dieser-
lotion' will be found to possess a degree of novelty hitherto 1111.
attempted In works of this nature ; • a variety of practical
somas, *ample+, and p,sespts, having hese introduced. by mien_
! dots to which the student may easily acquire a competent knowl.dge
of the natural and political divisions of the globe, and of the relative
extern sad positions of its various empires, -kingdoms, and sates
Y. NSW RUSSIA—A JO RN E; Y from RIGA to the
CRIMEA, by WAY of KIEV; with come Account of the Colo-
nisation, and of the Manners and Customs of the Colonists of New
Russia. To which Is added a Second Edition of Notes relating
is the Calm Tartars. By Mary Holdemees.
Ia one situate nye, illustrated with coloured plates of ceseamea,
&e. pries lee. ed. in boards.
" In taking leave of Mrs. Holderness, we have great plater* in
assuring her, that bee volume makes a near approximation to the
sort of work which we are glad to encourage from intelligent Eng-
lish residents abroad. It bears everywhere the stamp of good sense,
ellserration, and mnh."--Quarterly Review, No. 67.
& NOTES of the WAR in SPAIN; detailing Occurrences,
Military and Political, in Galicia, and at Gibraltar and Cadiz, frost
the Pallor COMMIS, to the Occupation of Cadiz by. the French.
Ilf_Thomas Steele, Esq. M.A. of Magdalispollege, Cambridge :
a Member of the Spanish Committee.
Illustrated with Maps, price Is boards.