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Ad Important new Work on the Physical History of Brazil. Messrs. Reeve, Brothers, beg to announce that they are preparing for pub- lication, complete in two vols., 8vo, price 24s., illustrated with a Map, and View of the Organ Mountains, a work of considerable interest, general and botanical, entitled TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF BRAZIL, PHINCIPALLY THROUGH THE NORTHERN PROVINCES AND Cfte 6oKr an& Mamontt Dfttrtrts;* BY GEORGE GARDNER, F.L.S., Etc. The present volumes are not offered to the public under an impression that they contain a better history of certain portions of Brazil than is to be found in the works of other Travellers, but because they include the description of a large tract of that immense Empire of which the world has as yet had no account. Independant of the general condition of the country, the author has endeavoured to give a faithful picture of its physical aspect and productions ; and some cur- sory remarks are added on the characters, habits, and condition of the different races, whether indigenous or otherwise, of which the popidation of those parts that he visited is now composed. Besides travelling along the coast, his journeys into the interior were numerous. During his last expedition which extended from North to South from the Equator to the twenty-third degree of south lati- tude, and from East to West from the coast to the tributaries of the Amazon, though suffering numerous privations, his enthusiasm surmounted all difficulties. He laboured diligently in the pleasing vocation of a Naturalist, and his troubles were amply repaid, not only by the incidents and pleasure which such wander- ings always afford to the lover of nature, but by the gratification of having con- tributed to no inconsiderable extent to the Flora and Fauna of that region.