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5 A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD; INCLUDING AN EMBASSY TO MUSCAT AND SIAM IN 1835, 1836, anp 1837. BY W. S. W. RUSCHENBERGER, M. D., Surgeon U. S. Navy ; Honorary Member of the Philadelphia Medical Society ; Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, de. AUTHOR OF “THREE YEARS IN THE PACIFIC.” Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me; and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.—THE WINTERS TALE. In One Volume, 8vo. Dr. R. is well known to the public as the author of the popular work, “ Three Years in the Pacific.” He was fleet-surgeon on board the Peacock sloop of war | in her late voyage of circumnavigation—and besides being a man of observation and science, he is a very agreeable writer. ‘The work is full of information of a novel and interesting character.— Mercantile Journal. The reading community is much indebted to Dr. Ruschenberger for the gratification to be derived from a perusal of his voyage ; nor are the nation and the navy less so—the one for its addition to the stock of literature, and the other for the credit reflected upon the service by the production of a member of the corps.— Army and Navy Chronicle. | Doctor Ruschenberger has furnished us with an octavo yolume, written in an easy and pleasing style, which contains ree any sketches of several countries and people with which we are comparatively but little acquainted—among these Zanzibar, Arabia, Hindoostan, Ceylon, Java, Siam, China, Cochin China, the Bonien Islands, the Sandwich Islands, and the Californias. We are gratified, too, as every reader will be, to find, that the narrative is free from the uninteresting details of courses and distances with which accounts of similar voyages were formerly defaced.— Baltimore Gazette. We most cordially commend the volume before us to the perusal of every class of readers as replete with curious and instructive facts, alike valuable to the merchant, the philosopher and the man of science.—Saturday Evening Post. We have perused with no ordinary feelings of satisfaction, the excellent book at the head of this article. Very few, if any, works have been published by Americans who have visited the countries of the East; and those written by English travellers are so frequently tinctured with national feeling and prejudice, that no correct opinion can be formed as to the success and efforts of other governments in . the advancement of their commerce and prosperity. The amount of information afforded to the literary and scientific reader, is very great, and the exposition of facts highly entertaining. The work is written in a clear, easy and vigorous style, and is * got up” by the publishers in a manner calculated to set this off to the best advantage.—Saturday Chronicle.
