NEW WORKS. JUST PUBLISHED, I. GUIDE TO THE HIGHLANDS and ISLANDS of SCOTLAND, Including ORKNEY and ZETLAND; descriptive of their Scenery, Statistics, Antiquities, and Natural History, with numerous Historical Notices. By GEORGE ANDERSON, General Secretary to the Northern Institution for the Promotion of Science and Literature; and PETER ANDERSON, Secretary to the Inverness Society for the Education of the Poor in the Highlands. One Pocket Volume, Post 8vo., accompanied by a most elaborate and complete Travelling Map of Scotland, engraved by Mr. J. Arrowsmith, and con taining the most recent information respecting Roads, &c. 16s. "The Authors of this work take leave to state, that they have been, in a great measure, led to obtrude themselves upon public attention by a sense of the inconvenience felt by travellers from the want of such a guide-book as this is designed to form; and from a belief that, as they have possessed unusual opportunities of acquiring an extensive acquaintance with the mountainous districts of their native land, they may with some confidence submit these pages to public notice. In the performance of the task they have imposed upon themselves, they venture to assure their readers that they have spared no trouble in procuring minute and accurate information. They have purposely and personally visited almost all the scenes described by them; and not satisfied with their own, or the observations of other writers, their MS. has, in general, been revised by friends intimately acquainted with the various districts of which it treats."—Authors' Preface. Section I.-General observations on the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. II.-Highland roads, coaches, inns, steam-navigation, outline of the most interesting routes, expense of travelling, &c. III.-Town of Inverness. IV.-Route 1. Inverness, by the Highland road across the Grampians to Perth. Branch a. Inverness to Fort George, Moor of Culloden, Cawdor Castle, &c. b. Strathnairn and Stratherrick. c. Strathdearn and the river Findhorn. d. Strathspey, with Fochabers, Elgin, and Burg-head. e. Routes across the Grampians to Braemar and Athole, with Loch-aneilan, Cairn-Gorm, &c. f. Blair Athol to Grantown in Strathspey, by Glentilt and Braemar. APPENDIX to ROUTE 1. Geology of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland-Localities of the different formations and rocks. V.-Route 2. The Great Glen of Scotland, and voyage from Inverness by Fort William to Glasgow. Branch a. Invermoriston to Kyle Rhea and Kyleakin. b. Corryarock and Loch Laggan roads with Glenroy. c. Glengarry road to Loch Hournhead and Cluany. d. Loch Arckaig-passage to the west coast by Glen Dessary. e. Fort William to Arisaig and Moidart. f. Oban to Staffa, Iona, &c. g. Oban to Dunbarton, by Dalmally, Inverary and Loch Lomond. h. Islands of Islay, Jura, Colonsay and Oronsay, and Iuch Cormac with Loch Swin. i. Kintyre, Ailsa, and Arran. APPENDIX to ROUTE 2. VI.-Route 3. Stirling to Fort William, by Callendar and Glencoe. Branch a. Callendar to Loch Catrine, Lochs Lomond, Chon, Ard, and Monteith. b. Lochernhead to Crief, and thence to Straths Tay and Tummel. c. Lochernhead to Dunkeld by Killin and Kenmore. APPENDIX to ROUTE 3. Circles of upright stones and cairns. VII.-Route 4. Skye, the Long Island, &c. Division Aa. Skye, Armadale, Kyle Rhea, and Kyleakin, to Dunvegan and Duntulm. A b. Skye, Strathaird's Cave, Coruisk, and Glen Sligachan. B. Broadford to Brochel Castle in Rasay, &c. C. The Outer Hebrides, or Long Island, and St. Kilda. APPENDIX to ROUTE 4. Round Towers, Duns or Burghs, and sculptured stones. VIII.-Route 5. Inverness to Wick, John O'Groat's House, and Thurso. Branch a. Inverness to Beauly, Falls of Kilmorack, Glenstrathfarar, and Strath Glass. b. Inverness to Avoch, Fortrose and Cromarty. c. Dingwall to the western coasts of Ross-shire. d. Bonar Bridge to Tongue, Durness, and Cape Wrath. e. Bonar Bridge to Loch Inver; and from Assynt to Durness. f. Tongue to Thurso. APPENDIX to ROUTE 5. Vitrified Forts. II. LIEUTENANT BURNES'S TRAVELS INTO BOKHARA, AND NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE UP THE INDUS; Performed under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831-2 and 3. Three Vols. 8vo. ; with Illustrative Engravings. 21. 28. "From these volumes the statesman will best learn the policy of those countries that border upon our dominions in India, and see whether they can be established as bulwarks against aggressive ambition, or whether they are to be dreaded as future agents in our expulsion from Hindostan. "The merchant will consult the work to learn by what means the new commercial route here developed may be turned to advantage; the general reader will delight in the novelty of countries previously unexplored, and races hitherto unknown; while the philosopher will delight in witnessing the devotion of great energies to a great purpose. It is impossible, we think, for any reader to rise from the perusal of Mr. Burnes's interesting volumes, without the strongest impression of his accuracy of observation, patient inquiry, close adherence to truth, and abstinence from mere speculation."-Foreign Quarterly Review, No. 27. "Lieut. Burnes's Reise von Indien nach Bochara ist eine der merwürdigsten Reise BURNES'S TRAVELS TO BOKHARA. beschreibungen welche ecit vielen Jahren das lesende publicum belehrt und ergötzt haben."-Allgemeine Zeitung, July 1. "Where each page of three volumes teems with interest, and merits comment, it is difficult to select details; but the reflection that Mr. Burnes is the first European, for twenty-two centuries, who has sailed the whole length of the Indus, naturally excites inquiry."—United Service Journal. "We do not think we shall excite one resentful feeling, even among the travellers whose productions we have reviewed during a course approaching twenty years, when we say that so interesting a publication of that class as the present has not come under our notice. The nature of the regions explored; the extent of the journeys performed; the time deliberately occupied; the variety of personal adventure; and, above all, the talent, the intelligence, and the modesty of the author, have combined to throw a perfect charm over the whole, which will fix every reader to his page, from the first to the last. If to exhibit the manners of the novel, the incidents of the romance, the events of history, the scenery of descriptive literature, and the novelties of scientific information, can make a book delightful, all these are to be found in Lieut. Burnes's most unassuming narrative."-Literary Gazette, June 28th, 1834, No. 910. "Since the days when we hung with rapture over the pages of Cook's Voyages, and felt ourselves inspired by some portion of the enthusiasm that animated the adventurous navigator, we have met with no work by which we have been more interested, delighted, and instructed, than the travels of Lieut. Burnes. He leads us over the fields where Alexander best earned the title of Great, by planning a continuous commercial communication between Europe and India, through those mountain-ranges which we can scarcely blame the Asiatics for regarding as the frame-work of the universe, across those deserts whence have issued the conquerors of Europe and Asia, the Scythians and Huns of remote ages, the Tartars and Turks of more modern times; finally, he conducts us into the romantic regions of Transoxiana or Mawer-aluahar, whose ancient prosperity has been the theme of so many fables, whose modern commerce has been the subject of such anxious inquiry. This route, so replete with objects of interest to the historian, the geographer, and the merchant, has been travelled by one who happily combines in himself more than most men the qualifications necessary for acquiring the information which these very different classes demand. Possessing a great store of learning, quick powers of observation, and strong common sense, Lieut. Burnes seems to have been predestined to the task of exploring Central Asia. He entered upon it as upon his own peculiar province, with that regulated enthusiasm which the mind experiences when it has discovered the track which nature designed it to pursue. We need not add a word of commendation on the skill and ability with which the traveller has described the countries he visited; the extracts which we are about to make speak more powerfully for themselves than any praise we could bestow."-Athenæum, June 28th, 1834. THE MAP, constructed to illustrate these volumes by Mr. J. ARROWSMITH, who has devoted much time in studying the Geography of this portion of Asia *, will doubtless be deemed most valuable, since it adds greatly to our knowledge, as well as rectifies much of the Geography found most variable and erroneous in all former Maps of Central Asia. Price in cover, 7s. 6d. * Mr. Arrowsmith has been engaged for many years in the construction of an extensive and beautiful GENERAL ATLAS, which will appear in the course of a few days. III. The DISPATCHES of FIELD MARSHAL the DUKE of WELLINGTON, K.G., during his various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, from 1799 to 1818. Compiled from Official Documents by Lieut.-Colonel GURWOOD, Esquire to his Grace as Knight of the Bath. 8vo. 20s. e. Fort William to Arisaig and Moidart. f. Oban to Staffa, Iona, &c. g. Oban to Dunbarton, by Dalmally, Inverary and Loch Lomond. h. Islands of Islay, Jura, Colonsay and Oronsay, and Inch Cormac with Loch Swin. i. Kintyre, Ailsa, and Arran. APPENDIX to ROUTE 2. VI.-Route 3. Stirling to Fort William, by Callendar and Glencoe. Branch a. Callendar to Loch Catrine, Lochs Lomond, Chon, Ard, and Monteith. b. Lochernhead to Crief, and thence to Straths Tay and Tummel. c. Lochernhead to Dunkeld by Killin and Kenmore. APPENDIX to ROUTE 3. Circles of upright stones and cairns. VII.-Route 4. Skye, the Long Island, &c. Division Aa. Skye, Armadale, Kyle Rhea, and Kyleakin, to Dunvegan and Duntulm. II. A b. Skye, Strathaird's Cave, Coruisk, and Glen Sligachan. B. Broadford to Brochel Castle in Rasay, &c. C. The Outer Hebrides, or Long Island, and St. Kilda. APPENDIX to ROUTE 4. Round Towers, Duns or Burghs, and sculptured stones. VIII.-Route 5. Inverness to Wick, John O'Groat's House, and Thurso. Branch a. Inverness to Beauly, Falls of Kilmorack, Glenstrathfarar, and Strath Glass. b. Inverness to Avoch, Fortrose and Cromarty. c. Dingwall to the western coasts of Ross-shire. d. Bonar Bridge to Tongue, Durness, and Cape Wrath. e. Bonar Bridge to Loch Inver; and from Assynt to Durness. f. Tongue to Thurso. APPENDIX to ROUTE 5. IX.-Route 6. The Orkney and Zetland Islands. Table of Distances. Performed under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831-2 and 3. Three Vols. 8vo.; with Illustrative Engravings. 21. 28. "From these volumes the statesman will best learn the policy of those countries that border upon our dominions in India, and see whether they can be established as bulwarks against aggressive ambition, or whether they are to be dreaded as future agents in our expulsion from Hindostan. "The merchant will consult the work to learn by what means the new commercial route here developed may be turned to advantage; the general reader will delight in the novelty of countries previously unexplored, and races hitherto unknown; while the philosopher will delight in witnessing the devotion of great energies to a great purpose. It is impossible, we think, for any reader to rise from the perusal of Mr. Burnes's interesting volumes, without the strongest impression of his accuracy of observation, patient inquiry, close adherence to truth, and abstinence from mere speculation."-Foreign Quarterly Review, No. 27. "Lient. Burnes's Reise von Indien nach Bochara ist eine der merwürdigsten Reise it is difficut tower Bibe fur twenty-two menuexcites injury-Land Server - We do not flink we whose products we we when we say fat sommeting a p come under our the. The move to a journeys petiormed; the fir ture; ani, ashee all fee have combined to fins a pret to his page, from fie fit "Since the days wien we hung with of Europe and Asia, the Serians and softea de Tan ant THE MAP, constructed to illustrate these volumes by Mr. J. ARROWSMITH, who has devoted much time in studying the Geography of this por tion of Asia*, will doubtless be deemed most valuable, since it adds greatly to our knowledge, as well as rectifies much of the Geography found most variable and erroneous in all former Maps of Central Asia. Price in cover, 7s. 6d. *Mr. Arrowsmith has been engaged for many years in the construction of an extensive and beautiful GENERAL ATLAS, which will appear in the course of a few days. III. The DISPATCHES of FIELD MARSHAL the DUKE of WELLINGTON, K.G., during his various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, from 1799 to 1818. Compiled from Official Documents by Lieut. Colonel GURWOOD, Esquire to his Grace as Knight of the Bath. 8vo. 208. |