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SMOLLET'S WORKS will be Published in March,

BY

ADAM BLACK, EDINBURGH, AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, LONDON,

By M. MALTE-BRUN,

EDITOR OF THE " ANNALES DES VOYAGES," &c.

This work is to be completed in seven octavo volumes, five of which have been already published in the original, each containing 665 pages of letter-press, nearly double the quantity of an ordinary volume.

The Translation will be published in Parts, or Half Volumes, price 8s. each.

Part First, containing the half of the First Volume, comprising the Theory of MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, and POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY," will be ready on the 1st of February next.

The History and Theory of Geography, and the description of Asia, Africa, and of the Continent of Europe, will be corrected and improved by the Author, expressly for this Translation. The description of the British Empire, and of North and South America, is to be revised by Gentlemen belonging to these Countries, whose access to official documents will enable them to supply such important and valuable information, as zvill render this part of the work in a great measure original.

A complete geographical work should comprise the substance of whatever is most interesting and authentic in the relations of voyagers and travellers in the topogra phical works published in different countries-and in the statistical inquiries which have occasionally been made, by governments, societies, or individuals. It should describe, with accuracy, the situation, soil, and climate, raw and manufactured products, religious and political institutions, of the different countries of the world, and should give its readers every information respecting the number and social condition of their inhabitants. The extreme difficulty of properly executing a work of this kind is sufficiently obvious. It requires an extent and variety of reading and acquirements to which very few can have any pretensions; and a patience of investigation, and soundness of judgment, still more rarely to be met with. Notwithstanding the popularity of geographical works, it is not, therefore, at all surprising that they should be so very generally defective. Previous to the publication of Mr. Pinkerton's work, geographical science was, in this country, at the very lowest ebb. The gram. mars of Salmon and Guthrie, and the bulkier, but less valuable, compilations of Martin, Gordon, Bankes, &c. presented only a confused mass of historical and statistical details, mixed together without the least regard to order, or to the relative importance of the subjects. But the inaccuracy of these publications was their principal and radical defect. The last slavishly copied the errors of those by which it had been preceded; statements were frequently inserted directly contradictory to each other; no authorities were ever referred to; and the reader had either to trust implicitly to the accuracy of the accounts before him, or to disregard them altogether. Mr. Pinkerton made some improvements on this method of compiling. He excluded the long historical details, which merely swell the size of geographical books, without adding to their real value; and he engrossed into his publication a considerable body of information derived from the relations of Spanish voyagers and travellers, and other works, which had not been consulted by former compilers. But Mr. Pinkerton's, though undoubt.

edly the best system of geography in the English language, is extremely imperfect. It often consists of little else than long extracts, clumsily put together, from the most common books of travels; only a very few authorities are referred to, and these frequently in such a manner as to render it impossible to verify the reference, and to occasion a doubt whether they had ever been consulted by the author; many of the most important statements have been shewn to be altogether erroneous; while the repulsive and affected style of the work is but ill calculated to recommend it to the general reader. By referring to vol. 10th of the Edinburgh Review, p. 154, it will be seen, that this is very far, indeed, from being either a partial or an unjust character of Mr. Pinkerton's work.

But although Mr. Pinkerton's work had been as complete as it is defective, the extraordinary changes which have taken place since its publication, would require the greater part of it to be entirely recomposed. The political constitution and territorial boundaries of the greater part of the kingdoms of Europe, have been totally changed since the overthrow of Napoleon Bonaparte. The purely regal governments of France and Spain have given place to constitutional and limited monarchies; and in the newly erected kingdoms of Bavaria and Wirtemberg, the representatives of the people share the supreme legislative authority with the king and the nobles. The ancient republic of Holland has been definitively united to the Netherlands, Norway to Sweden, Genoa to Sardinia, the most valuable part of Saxony to Prussia, Venice to Austria, and the Duchy of Warsaw and Finland to Russia. These, and an infinite variety of other changes which have taken place in Europe, joined to the rapid progress of the republic of the United States, and the emancipation of South America from the dominion of Old Spain, have essentially altered the political and social condition of the inhabitants of the two most important quarters of the globe.

But it is an unquestionable fact, that there is no geographical work in the English language, (except mere compilations for the use of schools should be considered as such,) accommodated to this new order of things. When such is the low state of this most useful and attractive science in this country, it cannot be doubted that a translation of M. Malte-Brun's System of Universal Geography will be acceptable to the public. This gentleman was peculiarly well qualified for executing a work of this kind. In conjunction with M. Mentelle, he had a considerable share in the compilation of the "Geographie de toutes les parties du Monde," in 16 vols. Subsequently M. Malte-Brun edited the "Annales des Voyages," a publication continued for several years, and which contains more original and important information on geographical and statistical subjects than is to be found in any similar production. The work, which it is now intended to translate, was begun in 1812, and it is expected will be completed in about two years. Five volumes are already published; the first contains the History of Geography, and of the progress of Discovery, from the earliest ages to the present day; the second contains the Theory of Mathematical, PHYSICAL, and Political Geography; and the three last contain the description of Asia, Africa, and America; the description of Europe will be comprised in two additional volumes, which will complete the work.

The character of Malte-Brun's Geography is now so well established, as to render it unnecessary to enter into any particular examination of its contents. Every part of it has been elaborated with the utmost care and diligence: and it is impossible to peruse a single chapter without being satisfied of the variety and solidity of the author's acquirements. References are constantly given for every fact of any importance; and the author's intimate acquaintance with the German, Danish, and other northern languages, as well as with those of the more southern countries of Europe, has enabled him to avail himself of the information embodied in various works of very great merit, which had not been consulted by any preceding French or English writer on geography. The volumes containing the History and the Theory of Geography cannot fail of being peculiarly acceptable to the English reader. They are executed with the greatest ability, and there are no works of the same kind in our language. Two large impressions of the first three volumes of the Paris edition have already been sold off.

Malte-Brun's Geography has been translated into German, (a sufficient proof of its merit,) and very valuable notes have been added by the German editors. It is intended to incorporate the greater part of these notes in the English edition. And as arrangements have been made for procuring the assistance of the author himself, and of gentlemen of distinguished literary attainments, both in this country and America, in the revising and correcting of the present translation, the Publishers entertain a confident expectation that it will be in every respect preferable to the original, and that it will form the most complete body of geographical science ever given to the public.