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Title: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Volume the Second.
Description: London, John Murray. 1832, First Edition. Card Covers, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, iv, [4], 342 pages, no maps or plates. Contains among other articles: Is the Quorra the same river as the Nigir of the Ancients?; Notes on a Part of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, A Passage from Europe to Java; Notes of two Expeditions up the Essequibo and Mazaroony Rivers in 1830 and 1831; Some Remarks relative to the geography of the Maldiva Islands; Accounts of the Cossyahs; Brief View of the Progress of Interior Discovery in new South Wales; Notices on New Zealand; Particulars of an Expedition up the Zambezi to Senna; Remarks on Aegada; Journal of a Voyage on the Bahr-Abiad or White Nile; On the State of civil and natural rights among the aborigianl inhabitants of Brazil; Notices of the Indians in the interior of British Guiana; On the Hydrography of South America; Agriculture in Cashmere; Memoir descriptive of Prince's island and Anna Bom in the Bay of Biafra; On the Submersion by the Sea of part of Hayling Island near Portsmouth in the Reign of Edward III; Extract from a letter from Captain Fitzroy on the Abrolhos bank; communication between the Ganges and the Hooghly; recent information from Australia; Expedition to ascertain the fate of Captain Ross; and some other smaller articles. No maps or plates which suggests that this might be a reprint or it was rebound without plates. Very Good.

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