Lieutenant Page’s Narrative contains ample information respecting the soil, climate, and productions of the country, and the manners, habits, and customs of the people. A full account is given of the unfortunate rupture with Paraguay, showing conclusively that the attack upon the Water Witch was altogether unwarranted, and the allegations by which President Lopez attempted to justify it entirely destitute of truth. An interesting and valuable account of the Jesuit Missions in La Plata is appended to the Narrative.
The Illustrations comprise the accurate Map of the Country prepared by the orders of our Government, Portraits of Urquiza, Lopez, Francis, and Loyola, and numerous Engravings of Scenery, Character, and Incident.
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“The most magnificent contribution of the present century to the cause of geographical knowledge.”
DR. BARTH’S
NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA.
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. Being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the Auspices of H.B.M’s Government in the Years 1849-1855. By Henry Barth, Ph.D., D.C.L., Fellow of the Royal Geographical and Asiatic Societies, &c., &c. Profusely and elegantly illustrated. Complete in 3 vols. 8vo, Muslin, $2 50 a Volume; Half Calf, $10 50 a set.
Dr. Barth’s wonderful travels approach the Equator from the North as nearly as Dr. Livingstone’s from the South, and thus show to future travelers the field which still remains open for exploration and research.—Vol. III., completing the work, is in the press, and will be published shortly.
The researches of Dr. Barth are of the highest interest. Few men have existed so qualified, both by intellectual ability and a vigorous bodily constitution, for the perilous part of an African discoverer as Dr. Barth.—London Times, Sept. 8, 1857.