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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.

Author: Various

Release Date: August 25, 2008 [EBook #26433]

Language: English

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLXXXV. NOVEMBER, 1847. Vol. LXII.

CONTENTS.

THE NAVIGATION OF THE ANTIPODES. 515

AMERICAN COPYRIGHT. 534

EVENINGS AT SEA.--NO. II. 547
HENRY MEYNELL.

WAS RUBENS A COLOURIST? 564

THE AMERICAN LIBRARY. 574

UNITS: TENS: HUNDREDS: THOUSANDS. 593

RESEARCH AND ADVENTURE IN AUSTRALIA. 602

MAGUS MUIR. 614

A NOVEMBER MORNING'S REVERIE. 618

VALEDICTORY VISITS AT ROME.
THE VILLA BORGHESE. 622
THE VILLA ALBANI. 626

HIGHLAND DESTITUTION. 630

* * * * *

THE NAVIGATION OF THE ANTIPODES.[1]

One of the most striking, and perhaps the most intellectual advances
of the age, is in the progress of geographical discovery. It is
honourable to England, that this new impulse to a knowledge of the
globe began with her spirit of enterprise, and it is still more
honourable to her that that spirit was originally prompted by
benevolence. Cook, with whose voyages this era may be regarded as
originating, was almost a missionary of the benevolence of England,
and of