The price cannot be great.

It may be, that not much that is new is taught us in , the book ; but all we have previously known is adduced con- nectedly, clearly, eloquently.

Fourteen pages, in a chapter at the end, include what is communicated on the natural history of Persia.

" This is of the popular and general kind; and although the writer, it may be seen, has striven to identify the objects spoken of with the systematised species of naturalists, this is but partly done.

The information on the geology of Persia is richer than that on its zoology and botany.