The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, 1818, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, 1818, Vol. 3

Mr. Eddy was the author of a number of essays which appeared in the newspa pers, on botany and other branches of natural history; on geography and the internal immovement of this state. An essay on geography which he intended for ublication in this magazine, will pro bah y short! Ap He was a member of the New Historical Socie and, in 1816, was elected to asimilar onour in the Literary and Philosophical Society of N ew-york. To this latter association be communicated an interesting memoir on the geography of Africa. That un fortunate mariner, Capt. James Riley, the narrative of whose sufferings has awakened so large a portion of public attention, had applied to Mr. Eddy to draw for him a map of part of Africa. This gave Mr. Eddy the occasion of ex amining the different accounts that had been published by different travellers on African geography; and, without passing sentence of condemnation on any writer ibr wilful misrepresntations, he gives due credit to the statement of Capt. Riley. Capt. Riley has indeed been pronounced a loose writer by an anonymous reviewer,* but the testiinonies to his worth and ve racity are most respectable, and, besides, he is subject to the evidence of living witnesses. It cannot be denied that his work contains most imt views of interior Africa; and it is gratifying to observe, that a gentleman possessed of the talents and learning of Hugh Murray, Esq. Should, in his enlarged edition of Leyden's Historical Account of Disco veries and Travels in Africa, pay the tri bute 9f high regard to our American nar rator.

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