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and 20 feet, formed the outside support, ee Luttfees,
a road about 11 feet wide, strongly and firmly par„,
with large and middle.sized stones, and ascetniing
the height of 1,000 fee!, at an angle, generally speak-
ing, of about 30 to 35 degrees. We did not measure
the exact length of this road, but the amount of labour
expended in overcoming the difficulties which stood
in its way seems almost incalculable, and the perfect
manner in which it has withstood the destructive influ-
ence of the course of time' would, I am sure, call
forth the admiration of any engineer of the present day.
Had it not been built upon the principle that bre,kwa-
ters generally are—l mean, in laying aside all chenaru,
and allowing space between the interstices of the pave-
ment for the water to percolate, and diminish the force
of its power—the road must have long since been swept
into the valley beneath amongst the general wreck of
confusion. Though we could discover no further use of
this noble path, than leading to the summit of the
mountain, where the ruins of two large buildings and
tanks are left, yet, we believe, the magnitude of the
work is such, that when associated with the extensive
aqueduct,' discovered by the late Dr Hutton, they-form
two of the greatest monuments we have to attest the
former greatness and opulence of the town of Aden,
which is now reduced to a miserable population of 600,
composed of Jews, Banians, Arabs, and Sarnalhies.
Such, then, arc a few of the most striking objects
of the place which is about to be so immediately Con-
nected with the laws of the British Government. We
shell now, therefore, take a look at the effect wilielt

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such a desirable change is likely to produce on the com-
merce of the town, which at present is almost com-
pletely banished from the port, in consequence of the
excossive system of oppression and taxation exacted by
the Sultan on all mercantile commodities. IT, heii that
oppression, however, is removed, and the British fl:nx
heisted to proclaim protection and encouregement to
the ' man of business,' the prospect then truly be-
comes a cheering one. The rich product 3 of Abvs-
sinia, which chiefly consists of gold dust, elephants'
teeth, coffee, gums, frankincense, hides, and
sheep, will immediately find their tray to Ad. o
to give a return for the silks, cotton, pi,-c,.-
goods, iron, and rice, which will be imperted here
from England and India. To facilitate the sale through-
out Arabia of such valuable exports as thesl are from
India, it fortunately happened that the road leatliLg
1 from Alen to the interior is the nearest and mos- nir-et
to the richest part of 'Yemen, where the population is
raost numerous (amounting to 3,000,000 or 4:000,000),
and from which, curious to say, the highe,t celebrated
coffee can be more easily conveyed to Aden, than to
Ithe very port which has given birth to the name see
' Mocha coffee.' It must be admitted, however, i hat
as long as the self-aggrandising spirit of the Turks,
or rather Egyptians, continues to sway their aria of
grasping power over Arabia, there e ill always be a
great impediment thrown in the way of British cern-
merce here ; for what is it lint that monopolising
spirit which has caused such a striking deficiency in the
amount of our Custom-house revenue at Surat, and other
parts of India, which used to send such valuable exports
to the Red Sea ? The present state of affairs, however,
is not likely to continue for a length of years, as I think
we have seen enough to convince us that their newly
acquired territories along the shores of the Red Sea are
not, by any means, held upon a sure tenure of lasting
possession ; and it is, perhaps, not unwise to predict
that, upon the death of Mahomet Ali. such a political
revolution will take place in Egypt, and so subversive
of its present power, that the result may terminate in
our getting possession of these dominions along the Red
Sea, or in the restoration of power to those Arab chiefs,
whose tribes at present succumb to their rod of oppres-'
sion. In either of these cases it is easy to foreeee
there would be an immense stimulus given to the
commerce of Aden, as her local position and harbour of
security give her a decided advantage over ports of
the Red Sea, in enabling vessels to perform seve.
ral trips to and from India during the year ; whereas
the nature of the winds within the straits of Babel
Mandel is such, that more than one can seldom, if
ever, be effected by a native vessel.
" With regard to the medical topography of Aden,
which more immediately falls under our department,
we have certainly not seen enough of the place to
be able to give a minute and accurate description ;
whatever careful observation and inquiry could, how-
ever, collect on the subject, it has been our earnest ,
endeavour to obtain. The chief point then con-
nected with this important topic is the climate of 1
the place, and how far it is inflacnced by its geo-
graphical position, and geological structure of the
ground. On looking, at first, at the near approach which
Aden makes of the equator, situated as it is in let, 12 d:: g.
47 min. N., and 45 deg. 10 min. of E. hang., we
would naturally infer that the heat roust be great ;
and it certainly would be so, were it no'. teat the
delightful easterly breeze, coming over such a wide
expanse of ocean, tends to make the air of an agreeable
temperature for six months in the year. At this sea-
son, the thermometer ranges from 71 deg. in the na.r::-
ing to 78 deg. in the middle of the day. Ditringihr.p
months of summer, however, v,hen toe sub bee eines
vertical, we were at first afraid to anticipate the extent
of heat likely to be produced, from what we have expe-
rienced at Mocha ; but we are gratified to find that the
difference between these two places, is then grently
owing to the south-west monsoon extending its in-
fluence so far as to give Aden the benefit of its
breeze, if not of its rain. And as the barren olture
of the rocks, which arc chiefly composed of gr,:nite,
sandstone, and greenstonc, affords no food for vegeta-
tion, there cannot therefore be any vegetable decomposi-
tion for the sun's rays to act upon to excite that malaria,
which is generally so productive of intermittent fever'
within the tropics. As a proof of this fact, we did
not find a single case of fever in Aden but what came
from the interior, where vegetation abounds ; rheuma-
tism and ulcers were the only complaints we chiefly r,e-
marked in the place. The latter we could easily as-
cribe to the poverty and spare diet of the patients ; and
the former may perhaps be attributed to the freqin ney
of the rains, which are not confined here to a perio-
Weal season of the year, as in India ; hut the height of
the mountains often attracts the clouds so as to be pro-
ductive of moisture. Aden may then be considered
a healthy place ; and so much is it esteemed as such
by the inhabitants of the interior, that upon all feverish
attacks, a visit to the town is recommended as the
The heat, however, during the summer.
hmaopuptl,lse,uar
leihough not nearly so oppressive as that of
Mocha, yet still it will be as high r.s ninety degrees,
and that temperature is enough to lead us to be pre-
pared to expect some cases of bilious and rennttan,
fever occurring in the European constitution. To di-
minish that liability as much as possible, it hes
been our careful endeavour to point out the mo-t eli-
gible sites for houses in Aden, and on Sierra Island
where the occupants could always derive the gratefui
, influence of the sea breeze."

The following is the House List of Governors
and Directors of the Bank of England for the year
ensuing :

FOR GOVRRNORS.
Sir John Rae Reid, Bart., Governor.
John Henry Felly, Esq., Deputy-Governor.
FOR DIRETORS.
John Bowden, Esq. , Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
William Cotton, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
T. Abraham Curtis, Esq. Sheffield Neave, Esq.
Henry Davidson, Esq. G. Winc; Norman, Esq.
Bonamy Dobree, Esq. J. Horsley Palmer, Esq.
C. Pascoe Gretdell, Esq. James Patison, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq. H. James Prescott, Esq.
John Oliver Hanson, Esq. Charles Pole, Esq.
J. Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. W. R. Robinson, Esq.
Charles FrederickHuth,Esq. W. Usiwin Sims, Esq.
Alfred Latham, Esq. Thomas Charles Smith, Esq.
James Malcolmson, Esq. T. Matthias Weguelin, Esq.
The Election for Governor and Deputy-Governor will
be brld at the Bank on Tuesday, the 9th, tr,d for Director s
on Wednesday, the 10th instant, front ten o'clock in the
forenoon till four in the afternoon.

THE LATE " MONK" LEWIS.—"
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wonder-working Lewis I" exclaims 1.1“-on, tithires •e
eccentric and celebrated author of the most eccentric and
celebrated novel of his day, " The Monk " That th..!
4. Life and Correspondence of such a man has so I
been withheld from public curiosity, will only now add
to
the interest excited by its expected appearance. Tao
" correspondence" of Lewis must, in particular, aff..rd
materials of great social as well as literary in:crest—since
be was the pyr,onal intimate cf almost cvery celobrat• d
man, both literary and political, of the beginning of the
present century, many of whom still live to attest the
eccentricity of his genius and the attractions of his person.).
character.
LORD LINDSAY'S LETTERS ON THE HoLy
LANn.—The prediction of the Quarterly I?eview, its to
the " ensuing editions which this work very richt., de-
serves," is already verified—a third edition being
sale. " Lord Lindsay's first letter is dated from Gi .r
November 1836 ; his Lordship then proceeded to Eqypt.
sailed up the Nile, and surveyed everything that is
to the notice of the traveller in that land of art i 6 'a.
wondc:s. He passed afterwards into Arabia, fell°, i ,
journey of the children of Israel, ascended Mount
and traced them through that great and terrible
nets;' visited the Gulf of Akaha, and arrived at Mount.
and the instructive ruins of fare. His course thtat
through Hebron to Jerusalem, successively thr,,ugh ye;
place of note in the Holy Land and the adjacent Nrts
Palmyra, 13aelbce, end Damascus, wh,,11„,,
dat,,s his last lettes• in July 1837. Lord Lindsay
and record,,d what lie saw with the ms
sopher andthe faith of an enlightened C..r,sti
,
telly Review. -
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NOVEL REPAST.--''0 imons2 bird, of the
Swan species, wi,a shot, a few days ago, in Freeman%
Common, Hungerford, weighing in its plumage betty:'en
thirty and forty pounds. The bird was dressed
Bear lan, on Monday night. when folirtecti Pend, mat
ten 'a the
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down and partook of it. It was ly,th tender 't
flavoured, and pronounced to b a rich 2:
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