Asie Mineure: Description Physique, Statistique, et Archéologique de cette ContréeAuthor(s): P. de TchihatchefSource: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 3, No. 6 (1858 - 1859),pp. 385-386Published by: Wiley on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of BritishGeographers)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1799182 .

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ADDITIONAL NO'I'ICES. ADDITIONAL NO'I'ICES. 385 385 tiMt3 the Portuguese Gonernment have set forth a claim to Bulama. In 1843

the Governor of Bissao landed a rJarty of soldiers on the island, and hauled down the British flacr. The island havinC heen taken forrnal y)ossession of for the Crown of EnCland by Lieutenant Lapidcre, of Her Majestvs briC Pantsxloon on the 24th of May, 1842, several nas al officers rey)orted a Stz on.r military fol ce rould be necessary to protect 13ritish settlers at Btllama an(l to resist the attacks of the Kanatac islanders. :It is manifest from my several despatches that the lattel danfrer is no longer to he apprellended. 'he BissaCoes have no disE)osition to entel into hostilities with the British: on the co1ltrary, they are naerst desilous to be on friendlv terrns svith us; the Kitler Of Or.mCo anxiously wishes to have the British fla(r in llis harbollr. They " only requtre a market," the opportunity to Cet rid of tlleir sul)erfluous ploductions in exchange for the coll1mon necessaries of Etlropean eslstence, and, in tl-1e words of Lising- stone, " they will be found keenly alive to the crreat value of every article of comulerce."

I haVeS &C., L. SMYTH O'CONNOR, GQ\ernOr.

The Right FIoa7>. I<. Labouchere, *Cc. c.

9. Asie Msleure: I)escription Phystque Statistique, et Archeologique de cette Co1xtree. Par P. DE TCHIHArrCHEF, Hon. F.R.G.S. First and Second Parts. 8vo. Paris: Gide et J. Baudry, 185t9,. T1IIS work, which is quote(l in several places by Ritter, consists of two larae volllmes, and is illustrated by a ]nap, which is very copiOlls in its physical aeooral)hy, and for the accuracy of which the author professes himself to ke greatly indetted to the astronomical okservations of M. WVrolltchenko that have enabled him to correct the positions of M. Wiepert. In the first voiume or leart, after a disqtlisition on tile orioin of the terms Asia, Asia Minor, (lnd Anatolia, M. de Tch.ihatchef treats of the general configuration of the peninsula and successisTely of its coasts and seas, capes and glllfs, lakes, rivers, minerai Spl'illCS, naountains, and t)lains. Frol:l this l)arl; 0f the work the folloxvinc passaae is extracted? which relates to a region amon^,st the Inost famous or) the earth, and whicll has a perpetual intelest for the sttldent of history and antiqllity:- " rlthe lealned researches of M. Chevalier to orholn belonts the incontestahle merit of having discovered the true pOSitiOll of t}le Wium of Homer, have proved that ill the time of Strabo the llumes of Scamander and Silnois had completely lost the sial;fication which they had had in Hotner's time, for Strabo )ltaces the Sinzois to the east of the Scalllander which proxres that it ras one of the branches of the Vtllnl:)rek or tlle 19aTiStiy-chai of the present day, whicl1 he clesionates by that Ilame, notvithstandincr that he makes the Scanaander come from Mollnt Ida, wherlce I-Ioluer states that the Simois descends7 l-)lacinffl, on the contrary, tile Scamatleler to the sollth of the Simois aIld its oriain in thet warul s)lings close to the si(le of the ancient Troy. It is eviclent that the Scamancler of Homer can only be the Bllnalbashi-sll of modern time, and his Sirnois the Mendere-su. The nlodern name of the Me,lldere, which is obviously only a corruption of the word Scamander, or Scamandre, proves that the 23imois of Homer had become generally known under tlle erroneolls name given to it bv Stlabo. The conf lsion seems to have illereased rnore ;lll(l more, since Vibills Seqllester exren state(-1 that the Meandel and the Sinlois fell into the Propontis. The geotrapher Plutarch, who wrote in the second century of otlr era, en1ploys tlle two names in the same sense as

tiMt3 the Portuguese Gonernment have set forth a claim to Bulama. In 1843 the Governor of Bissao landed a rJarty of soldiers on the island, and hauled down the British flacr. The island havinC heen taken forrnal y)ossession of for the Crown of EnCland by Lieutenant Lapidcre, of Her Majestvs briC Pantsxloon on the 24th of May, 1842, several nas al officers rey)orted a Stz on.r military fol ce rould be necessary to protect 13ritish settlers at Btllama an(l to resist the attacks of the Kanatac islanders. :It is manifest from my several despatches that the lattel danfrer is no longer to he apprellended. 'he BissaCoes have no disE)osition to entel into hostilities with the British: on the co1ltrary, they are naerst desilous to be on friendlv terrns svith us; the Kitler Of Or.mCo anxiously wishes to have the British fla(r in llis harbollr. They " only requtre a market," the opportunity to Cet rid of tlleir sul)erfluous ploductions in exchange for the coll1mon necessaries of Etlropean eslstence, and, in tl-1e words of Lising- stone, " they will be found keenly alive to the crreat value of every article of comulerce."

I haVeS &C., L. SMYTH O'CONNOR, GQ\ernOr.

The Right FIoa7>. I<. Labouchere, *Cc. c.

9. Asie Msleure: I)escription Phystque Statistique, et Archeologique de cette Co1xtree. Par P. DE TCHIHArrCHEF, Hon. F.R.G.S. First and Second Parts. 8vo. Paris: Gide et J. Baudry, 185t9,. T1IIS work, which is quote(l in several places by Ritter, consists of two larae volllmes, and is illustrated by a ]nap, which is very copiOlls in its physical aeooral)hy, and for the accuracy of which the author professes himself to ke greatly indetted to the astronomical okservations of M. WVrolltchenko that have enabled him to correct the positions of M. Wiepert. In the first voiume or leart, after a disqtlisition on tile orioin of the terms Asia, Asia Minor, (lnd Anatolia, M. de Tch.ihatchef treats of the general configuration of the peninsula and successisTely of its coasts and seas, capes and glllfs, lakes, rivers, minerai Spl'illCS, naountains, and t)lains. Frol:l this l)arl; 0f the work the folloxvinc passaae is extracted? which relates to a region amon^,st the Inost famous or) the earth, and whicll has a perpetual intelest for the sttldent of history and antiqllity:- " rlthe lealned researches of M. Chevalier to orholn belonts the incontestahle merit of having discovered the true pOSitiOll of t}le Wium of Homer, have proved that ill the time of Strabo the llumes of Scamander and Silnois had completely lost the sial;fication which they had had in Hotner's time, for Strabo )ltaces the Sinzois to the east of the Scalllander which proxres that it ras one of the branches of the Vtllnl:)rek or tlle 19aTiStiy-chai of the present day, whicl1 he clesionates by that Ilame, notvithstandincr that he makes the Scanaander come from Mollnt Ida, wherlce I-Ioluer states that the Simois descends7 l-)lacinffl, on the contrary, tile Scamatleler to the sollth of the Simois aIld its oriain in thet warul s)lings close to the si(le of the ancient Troy. It is eviclent that the Scamancler of Homer can only be the Bllnalbashi-sll of modern time, and his Sirnois the Mendere-su. The nlodern name of the Me,lldere, which is obviously only a corruption of the word Scamander, or Scamandre, proves that the 23imois of Homer had become generally known under tlle erroneolls name given to it bv Stlabo. The conf lsion seems to have illereased rnore ;lll(l more, since Vibills Seqllester exren state(-1 that the Meandel and the Sinlois fell into the Propontis. The geotrapher Plutarch, who wrote in the second century of otlr era, en1ploys tlle two names in the same sense as

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386 386 ADDITIONAL NOTICES. ADDITIONAL NOTICES.

[JUNE: 27, 1859. Stralso, for he places Mount Ida beside the Scamander, which proves that he meant to speak of the Mendere-su of our day, or the SilllOiS of Homer." p. 223. It will be recollected that in the twelfth volume of the Jollrnal of the Society is an elaborate Paper on the TopoCraphy of Troy, by Dr. Forchhamncer, ac- companied by a map of the rivers of its plain, made by Mr. (now Capt.) Spratt R.N. It may be remarked sn ttmine, that, on a careful comparison of the maps and desctiptions in the two separate sources of information it appears that the views and opinions of the two authors, with respect to tie identity of the rivers so celebrated in the immortal work of Homer, are strikingly consistent. The second portion of the work of M. Tchihatchef is clevoted to the cli- matology and zoology; and in the preface we are promised two succeedinC parts on the geology, and on the statistics, political histoly, and archroloCy Of Asia Minor. 'l'he work, so far as already published, is cnriched with en- gravings, displaying strikina natural features of the country, and the arlimals native in the peninsula. The writinc is elevated in its tone, close and correct as to style, ancl there call be no doubt that this will take its place as a standard work of literature.

10. The Indus and 1ts Provinces: thezr Politicat Importance considered in connerion with zmproved rneclns of Communicatzon. By W. P. ANDREW, Esq., F.R.G.S. 8vo. London: Allen. THIS book is written with a view to advocate the interests of the Company enaaged in the formation of the Scinde and Punjab Railways * and it explains the directions which those lines of transit are to take, and the benefits capable of being derived froln their completion. It is illustrated by a very good map. The scheme for effecting railway and steam eommunication between the countries on the Indus is the following:-A railway, 110 miles in length, is stated to be in course of formation between Kurrachee and Hyderabad, a contract for its construction having been concluded in December 1858. It is also stated that the Company has been re(lllested by the local authorities " to stlrvey two branch lines the one from Stlkkur by Shikarpoor to Jacobabad southward fronl Eyderabad, by Omercote to Deesa, so as to eSect a direct communication between Kurrachee and Bombay by a junction with the in- tended extension of the Bombay and Baroda line to Deesa.t' From Hyderabad there is a perrtanently open navigation of the Indus, the PunCund, and the Chenab rivers for 570 miles up to Mooltan, on which waters it is proposed to establish a steam flotilla; and frorn Mooltan the Punjab railway, 2?48 miles in length, would proceed to Lahore and Umritsir. From Lahore a branch is projected to sweep across the upper portion of the Punjab to Peshawer, on the flontier of Afghanistan. We learn that on Jan. 27th last the East India Company sanctioned the raising of a million and a half sterling for the com- mencement of the Punjab railway. 'rhe book is full of quotations of both official and non-official character indicating the commercial and military advantaCes which would arise from the construction of the foreCoinffl works. The Inclus is certainly the key to Central Asia west of the Eimalaya mountains, and the possession of commercial superiority there is adapted materially to counterbalance the cominercial traffic carried on inland between the upper Indus and the Bosphorus and. southern ter- riteries of Russia. Such railways as are projected on the Indus are, as the author araues, necessary in order to enable us to compete with the facilities of transit about to be afforded by the estension of railways in the southern provinces of

[JUNE: 27, 1859. Stralso, for he places Mount Ida beside the Scamander, which proves that he meant to speak of the Mendere-su of our day, or the SilllOiS of Homer." p. 223. It will be recollected that in the twelfth volume of the Jollrnal of the Society is an elaborate Paper on the TopoCraphy of Troy, by Dr. Forchhamncer, ac- companied by a map of the rivers of its plain, made by Mr. (now Capt.) Spratt R.N. It may be remarked sn ttmine, that, on a careful comparison of the maps and desctiptions in the two separate sources of information it appears that the views and opinions of the two authors, with respect to tie identity of the rivers so celebrated in the immortal work of Homer, are strikingly consistent. The second portion of the work of M. Tchihatchef is clevoted to the cli- matology and zoology; and in the preface we are promised two succeedinC parts on the geology, and on the statistics, political histoly, and archroloCy Of Asia Minor. 'l'he work, so far as already published, is cnriched with en- gravings, displaying strikina natural features of the country, and the arlimals native in the peninsula. The writinc is elevated in its tone, close and correct as to style, ancl there call be no doubt that this will take its place as a standard work of literature.

10. The Indus and 1ts Provinces: thezr Politicat Importance considered in connerion with zmproved rneclns of Communicatzon. By W. P. ANDREW, Esq., F.R.G.S. 8vo. London: Allen. THIS book is written with a view to advocate the interests of the Company enaaged in the formation of the Scinde and Punjab Railways * and it explains the directions which those lines of transit are to take, and the benefits capable of being derived froln their completion. It is illustrated by a very good map. The scheme for effecting railway and steam eommunication between the countries on the Indus is the following:-A railway, 110 miles in length, is stated to be in course of formation between Kurrachee and Hyderabad, a contract for its construction having been concluded in December 1858. It is also stated that the Company has been re(lllested by the local authorities " to stlrvey two branch lines the one from Stlkkur by Shikarpoor to Jacobabad southward fronl Eyderabad, by Omercote to Deesa, so as to eSect a direct communication between Kurrachee and Bombay by a junction with the in- tended extension of the Bombay and Baroda line to Deesa.t' From Hyderabad there is a perrtanently open navigation of the Indus, the PunCund, and the Chenab rivers for 570 miles up to Mooltan, on which waters it is proposed to establish a steam flotilla; and frorn Mooltan the Punjab railway, 2?48 miles in length, would proceed to Lahore and Umritsir. From Lahore a branch is projected to sweep across the upper portion of the Punjab to Peshawer, on the flontier of Afghanistan. We learn that on Jan. 27th last the East India Company sanctioned the raising of a million and a half sterling for the com- mencement of the Punjab railway. 'rhe book is full of quotations of both official and non-official character indicating the commercial and military advantaCes which would arise from the construction of the foreCoinffl works. The Inclus is certainly the key to Central Asia west of the Eimalaya mountains, and the possession of commercial superiority there is adapted materially to counterbalance the cominercial traffic carried on inland between the upper Indus and the Bosphorus and. southern ter- riteries of Russia. Such railways as are projected on the Indus are, as the author araues, necessary in order to enable us to compete with the facilities of transit about to be afforded by the estension of railways in the southern provinces of

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