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Ad Important new Work on the Physical History of Brazil. Shortly will be published, in one thick volume octavo, illustrated with a Map, and "View of the Organ Mountains, a work of considerable general and botanical interest ; TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF BRAZIL, PRINCIPALLY THROUGH THE NORTHERN PROVINCES AND €)t (Sola una Mumovto Mtetritte. BY GEORGE GARDNER, F.L.S., Etc The present volume is not offered to the public under an impression that it contains a better history of certain portions of Brazil than is to be found in the works of other Travellers, but because it includes the description of a large tract of that immense Empire, of which the world has as yet had no account. Inde- pendent of the general condition of the country, the author has endeavoured to give a faithful picture of its physical aspect and productions ; and some cursory remarks are added on the characters, habits, and condition of the different races, whether indigenous or otherwise, of which the population 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 latitude, 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 wanderings always afford to the lover of nature, but by the gratification of having contributed to no inconsiderable extent, to our knowledge of the Flora and Fauna of that region. London : Reeve, Brothers, King William Street, Strand.