Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-12-05

The Golden Ddgon or up and down the IT.
rawaddl,--heing passages Of adventure
in the Burman Empire. BY an American.
New York, Dix, Edwards & Co.
Ouentdi .Acpulinidnce in series of LETT
tiers from Asia Minor. BY j. W. DeFor-
rest New York, Dix, Edwards 81 Co.
Two neat volumes, tempting to the eve.
The reader will find fresh materials and
free and easy style IN both books. The first
purpofts to be from the pen of an American
who oihclated ms a surgeon on board But-
ish steamer in the war with Burm,lllu 1852
and the incidents of the voyage, aud the
fighting, and glmpses at the customs and re-
lgion of a people little known, viii inlorest
every reader. The last nrmod volume is
well well described in the title it inlrodu-
ces one to the acquaintances oil the author,
made in a brief soionrn in Asia Minor new
acquantances all 10 the reader, and many of
them quite agreeable
Morgan Horses premium essay ON The
origin, history and chamctcustlcs of this
remarkable breed Of Amlucln norses.
by D. c. Llnsloy, Middebury VI New
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Thoroughly approaching the value of the
Morgan mco, which is one Of The many glo
ries Of the Vermont farmer, Mr. Linsley has
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this work. The essay received the appro-
baton Of a committee OF the Vermont State
Agricultural Society; and it is now pub
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which the Green Mountain farmers may not
only be proud of but prodtby it, This book
contains notices of nearly three hundred
celebrated horses, and gives pcdigrees and
portraits of many Of them. Price 81. For
sale, we presume, by the booksellers goner-
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