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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 gratifi¬
cation 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 mer¬
chant, 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 Ameri¬
cans 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.