No. XXI. AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE, AND OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, FROM THE VOYAGE OF MAGELLAN TO THE DEATH OF COOK. SECOND EDITION. ONE VOLUME. This volume exhibits the History of Maritime Enterprise in one of the most interesting Regions of the World, during a period of more than two centuries and a half. It contains, besides many others, Narratives of the Voyages and Adventures of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the discoverer of the South SeaMagellan-Quiros-Schouten and Le Maire-Tasman-Commodore AnsonByron-Wallis-Carteret, and Bougainville. The Account of Captain Cook's Voyages is ample and comprehensive, and is very fully illustrated from the Works of recent English and French Navigators; and in the Memoir of his Life is embodied some valuable information, for which the Publishers are indebted to the Relatives of his Family. The achievements of three British Circumnavigators-Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier-seemed to deserve a more minute description than was compatible with the design of this work, and the Fifth Number of the EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY was accordingly devoted to an Account of their Lives and Actions. No. XXII. LIFE OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH, FOUNDED ON AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, SOME OF THEM NOT BEFORE PUBLISHED; Including an Historical View of his Reign; with Biographical Sketches of Wolsey, More, Erasmus, Cromwell, Cranmer, and other Eminent Contemporaries. By PATRICK FRASER TYTLER, F.R.S. & F.S.A. SECOND EDITION. ONE VOLUME. This work is written upon the same plan, and aims at nearly the same object, as the Author's LIFE OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH. It is a piece of historical biography, in which enough of history is given to render the great events of the period it embraces clear in their origin, progress, and consequences, and where, at the same time, there is introduced that minuteness of detail, which, when we have to describe the actions of illustrious men, constitutes the great charm of Biography, imparting individuality and distinctness of outline to the principal personages who occupy the picture. In the canvass, the monarch himself forms the prominent figure; but round him are grouped those eminent characters who were the chief actors and thinkers of the times,-the ministers, the favourites, and the victims of their master. Nos. XXIII. XXIV. SCANDINAVIA, Ancient and Modern; BEING A HISTORY OF DENMARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY: COMPREHENDING A Description of these Countries, an Account of the Mythology, Government, Laws, Manners, and Institutions of the Early Inhabitants, and of the Present State of Society, Religion, Literature, Arts, and Commerce. With Illustrations of their Natural History. By ANDREW CRICHTON, LL.D., Author of the History of Arabia, &c.; and HENRY WHEATON, LL.D., Author of the History of the Northmen, &c. TWO VOLUMES. Nos. XXV. XXVI. XXVII. BRITISH AMERICA; COMPREHENDING CANADA UPPER AND LOWER, NOVA SCOTIA, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEWFOUNDLAND, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, THE BERMUDAS, AND THE FUR COUNTRIES: Their History from the Earliest Settlement; the Statistics and Topography of each District; their Commerce, Agriculture, and Fisheries; their Social and Political Condition; as also an Account of the Manners and Present State of the Aboriginal Tribes. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A FULL DETAIL OF THE PRINCIPLES AND BEST MODEs of EMIGRATION. • By HUGH MURRAY, F.R.S.E. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY, By JAMES WILSON, F.R.S.E. & M.W.S.; R. K. GREVILLE, LL.D.; and PROFESSOR TRAILL. THREE VOLUMES. The Author, deeply impressed with the importance of his task, has anxiously sought every means of rendering its performance complete and satisfactory. In tracing the condition and history of the aboriginal tribes, he has had access to extensive works in the French language, to which former writers appear to have been strangers. He has devoted much attention to the statistics and present state of the colonies; an undertaking attended with considerable difficulty, on account of the recent changes, which have rendered all previous information in a great measure useless. Hence, besides the works of Bouchette, M'Gregor, and others, it was necessary to examine the tables published by the Board of Trade, the voluminous reports laid before Parliament, and to compare them with the narratives of the latest travellers and residents. Even with all these resources, it was found impossible to render the information complete, without many personal communications. Particular acknowledgments are due to Sir George Simpson, the enlightened resident governor of the Hudson's Bay Establishment, who has furnished a large store of original information respecting their trade, and the general state of the fur countries. A gentleman, who long carried on mercantile transactions, and still maintains an extensive correspondence in Canada, contributed the valuable chapter on commerce. An intelligent friend, filling an important situation at St John, Newfoundland, transmitted full and recent statistical details relative to that colony. Respecting Prince Edward Island, very useful materials were supplied by Mr Stewart, a gentleman deeply concerned there both as proprietor and manager. To Mr Bruyeres and other distinguished persons connected with the Land Companies, the Author is indebted for several important communications. From other sources of high authority, which cannot here be fully particularized, valuable information, otherwise inaccessible, has been obtained. Emigration, the most important light under which British America can be viewed, will be found to have occupied a very prominent place in the writer's researches. He has endeavoured to supply the intending settler with more comprehensive and precise details than have hitherto been collected. The prospects which will open to the emigrant, the course which he ought to pursue, the difficulties to be encountered, and the best means of overcoming them, have been considered at full length. In subservience to this object, a very minute account has been given of the different districts, their situation, climate, and soil, in connexion with their natural and acquired advantages of every description. The branches of Natural History, Zoology, Botany, and Geology, have been very carefully illustrated by Mr Wilson, Dr Greville, and Professor Traill,— gentlemen whose names afford a sufficient guarantee for the value and accuracy of their information. To illustrate these various subjects the utmost care has been taken to prepare a series of maps exhibiting at once the general geography of British America and its most important localities. One, on a large scale, comprehends all the provinces already occupied, while four of smaller dimensions show the topography of those districts which are best adapted for settlement. Various divisions and towns that have recently sprung up, and could not be included in any former map, have been carefully marked. To the Third Volume is annexed a delineation of the whole of the Northern and Western Regions which form the theatre of the fur trade, and of those recent expeditions which had for their object an extended knowledge of the remote shores and neighbouring seas. No. XXVIII. AN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF ICELAND, GREENLAND, AND THE FAROE ISLANDS; WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THEIR NATURAL HISTORY. ONE VOLUME. Nos. XXIX. XXX. XXXI. ITALY AND THE ITALIAN ISLANDS: FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY WILLIAM SPALDING, Esq., THREE VOLUMES. This work, like its predecessors in the same department of the series, is designed for delineating, in a shape adapted to popular use, all the most important features of the beautiful and interesting country to which it refers. It comprehends the History of its Politics, Literature, and Art, with copious Illustrations of its Statistics, Geography, and Natural Science. The political, social, and intellectual revolutions which have been undergone by the inhabitants, are related in connexion with the antiquities, the scenery, and the physical peculiarities, of the several States. There does not exist, in the English language, any publication that attempts, in regard to Italy, a survey so extensive. The FIRST VOLUME, except the General Introduction with which it opens, is devoted exclusively to Ancient Times. It unfolds, in succession, the History of the Roman Republic and Empire, the Literature, Art, and Topography of those ages, as also the Character and Habits of the Heathen Nation. The SECOND VOLUME, after completing the survey of the ancient world by an outline of Early Christian Antiquities, reviews the period which elapsed between the Fall of the Western Empire and the French Revolution in 1789. The most prominent characteristics of the Dark Ages are presented in one combined picture. For the Middle Ages, Political History and the State of Society are treated in two successive stages: after which Literature and Art are depicted separately. The Political History of the first three centuries of Modern Times, is followed by a review of Literature and Art during the same period. The THIRD VOLUME embraces the History of Italy during the early Revolutionary Era, as it existed under the Government of Napoleon, and as it has appeared since the Restoration. Modern Topography, Recent Literature and Art, occupy the next place: the Character and Habits of the Modern Nation are investigated at great length: the Natural History and Resources of the country are reviewed: and a Statistical Summary closes the work. |