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Literary Notices.
of the year 1846 , while engaged in preparing the materials for my " Essay on the Nile audits Tributaries , " I had occasion to examine the various details of this journey published both in England and France . And since that time M . d'Abbadie ' s further statements , especially with reference to a second journey to Enarea alone , said to have been performed by himself and his brother in tho years 1 S 45 and 1846 , have supplied such a mass of evidence , as not only to satisfy me ofthe unreality of the former journey , but to warrant me in submitting to the judgment ofthe scientific world the objections to that journey which I now
feel it to be my duty to make . " These objections may be classed under four distinct heads : — " 1 . The insufficiency of the time requisite for such a journey and for the various circumstances alleged to have attended it . " 2 . The repeated anomalies and contradictions in the traveller ' s statements at different periods as to matters alleged to have been ascertained not from oral information but from personal knowledge . " 3 . The errors and discrepancies in his recorded astronomical and geological
observations , and the difficulties which they present . " 4 . The care with which the first journey to Enarea and Kaffa—the earlier and far more important of the two , and therefore the more deserving of noticehas been since kept out of sight ; while the later and less important journey to Enarea alone has been brought prominently forward and made to supersede it . " AVith these few remarks , we recommend to all lovers of truth and justice the perusal of this pamphlet ; and much mistaken indeed shall we be if they do not rise from it , as we have done , with the full conviction that it contains manifold evidence that M . A . D'Abbadie's journey to Kaffa , in 1843 and 1844 , is , purely and simply , a literary fiction .
Notices To Correspondents. P. %., Ipswic...
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . P . % ., IPSWICH . —In reply to the inquiries ofthe Companion who requests our opinion on certain habits of exalting candidates , we beg to state that nothing can be more discreditable or irregular than the conduct of which he complains . GanAT YABIKVCTH . —P . —The ceremony is only deferred to the ensuing spring . A . B . C . is referred to our leading remarks upon the advancement of
Freemasonry for an answer to his enquiry . CaoYnou . —PHILO-MASONICUS is rightly informed . The Grand Chaplain has promised to preach a sermon in the ensuing year in behalf of the Boys' School , when there will , doubtless , be a good muster of the Brethren to repay his exertions in the cause of charity . BIRMINGHAM . —A PKOVINCIAL MASON . —The grant proposed in last Grand Lodge for Bro . Honey was 100 / . We cannot say whether the minutes of the
last Grand Lodge will be confirmed upon this proposition . A . —the M . "W . the Grand Master was this year nominated by Bro . AVynn , and the nomination was seconded by Bro , John Savage . H . asks whether the proceedings of tbe last Grand lodge were regular on the part of the chair . Most decidedly . The V . W . Brother who presided has more of the "fortiter in re" than the suaviter in modo in his manner ; but he was clearly correct in his ruling . GRAHD-OKIENTPARIS . —In all probability . There will no fault he found
, with the representation whenever it is determined upon . * * * "We beg to acknowledge the receipt of No . I ., vol . iv ., of " the Masonic Signet , " St . Louis , which arrived too late for notice in this number of the "Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine and Review . "
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Literary Notices.
of the year 1846 , while engaged in preparing the materials for my " Essay on the Nile audits Tributaries , " I had occasion to examine the various details of this journey published both in England and France . And since that time M . d'Abbadie ' s further statements , especially with reference to a second journey to Enarea alone , said to have been performed by himself and his brother in tho years 1 S 45 and 1846 , have supplied such a mass of evidence , as not only to satisfy me ofthe unreality of the former journey , but to warrant me in submitting to the judgment ofthe scientific world the objections to that journey which I now
feel it to be my duty to make . " These objections may be classed under four distinct heads : — " 1 . The insufficiency of the time requisite for such a journey and for the various circumstances alleged to have attended it . " 2 . The repeated anomalies and contradictions in the traveller ' s statements at different periods as to matters alleged to have been ascertained not from oral information but from personal knowledge . " 3 . The errors and discrepancies in his recorded astronomical and geological
observations , and the difficulties which they present . " 4 . The care with which the first journey to Enarea and Kaffa—the earlier and far more important of the two , and therefore the more deserving of noticehas been since kept out of sight ; while the later and less important journey to Enarea alone has been brought prominently forward and made to supersede it . " AVith these few remarks , we recommend to all lovers of truth and justice the perusal of this pamphlet ; and much mistaken indeed shall we be if they do not rise from it , as we have done , with the full conviction that it contains manifold evidence that M . A . D'Abbadie's journey to Kaffa , in 1843 and 1844 , is , purely and simply , a literary fiction .
Notices To Correspondents. P. %., Ipswic...
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . P . % ., IPSWICH . —In reply to the inquiries ofthe Companion who requests our opinion on certain habits of exalting candidates , we beg to state that nothing can be more discreditable or irregular than the conduct of which he complains . GanAT YABIKVCTH . —P . —The ceremony is only deferred to the ensuing spring . A . B . C . is referred to our leading remarks upon the advancement of
Freemasonry for an answer to his enquiry . CaoYnou . —PHILO-MASONICUS is rightly informed . The Grand Chaplain has promised to preach a sermon in the ensuing year in behalf of the Boys' School , when there will , doubtless , be a good muster of the Brethren to repay his exertions in the cause of charity . BIRMINGHAM . —A PKOVINCIAL MASON . —The grant proposed in last Grand Lodge for Bro . Honey was 100 / . We cannot say whether the minutes of the
last Grand Lodge will be confirmed upon this proposition . A . —the M . "W . the Grand Master was this year nominated by Bro . AVynn , and the nomination was seconded by Bro , John Savage . H . asks whether the proceedings of tbe last Grand lodge were regular on the part of the chair . Most decidedly . The V . W . Brother who presided has more of the "fortiter in re" than the suaviter in modo in his manner ; but he was clearly correct in his ruling . GRAHD-OKIENTPARIS . —In all probability . There will no fault he found
, with the representation whenever it is determined upon . * * * "We beg to acknowledge the receipt of No . I ., vol . iv ., of " the Masonic Signet , " St . Louis , which arrived too late for notice in this number of the "Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine and Review . "