BLACKWOOD’S
Edinburgh
MAGAZINE.
VOL. LXII.
JULY-DECEMBER, 1847.

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1847.

BLACKWOOD’S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCLXXXI. JULY, 1847. Vol. LXII.

CONTENTS.

[Prescott’s Peru,]1
[Crossing the Desert,]21
[Life of Jean Paul Richter,]33
[A Tale of the Masorcha Club—At Buenos Ayres,]47
[Letter from a Railway Witness in London,]68
[Sir H. Nicolas’s History of the Navy,]82
[Evenings at Sea,]96
[The Dog of Alcibiades,]102
[Sir Robert Peel and the Currency,]113

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BLACKWOOD’S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCLXXXI. JULY, 1847. Vol. LXII.

PRESCOTT’S PERU.[1]