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54 TltAVELS IN EUROPE.hisnote-hook.It may he said that the traveller, who is able. to nnikeout his book, twelve volumes, without touching on these subjects, mustpossess rare literary powers, and no one i5 inclined to dispu~e thi8 tnerit.Let Don Anthonio Pons, therefore, reillain the author after the critic'sown heart.Almost every thing, at any rate, 18 well in its place; andhad Don Anthonio Pons travelled in Italy or Greece, his researchesinto architecture, palatial and pal'OchiaI, would have afforded usefulinformation; for not a plinth could have remainedwithoutits dinlensionsrecorded. His enumeration of the pictures of value; ho'\vever,sodiffuse~y,and, it may be said, strangely scattered, in obscure situations,throughout Spain, still gives the work value, if they open the eyesof mankind to the wonders of this art in the Spanish cabinet; for Spainis one vast magazine of these treasures.-Now to recul' to the wordgeology.The traveller is here fortunate, ifhe so think himself, whichit is to be hoped, for the diffusion of intellectual food through. themoral desert, he may ever continue to do. He has the workof DonEmanuel Bowles on this subject; one most interesting, so far as relatesboth to general ideas and local observations; which has beentranslated into French, and would be an acquisition to every language.Although the principal strides which thesuhject has taken have beenin\'ery late years; yet the correctness of this observer of nature, in hisideas, i8 most worthy of attention; and it shonld be remembered tbatthis book (and it is but on'e volume) treats of a countrylittle known.The facts it notices are most extraordinarystratifications of human bones).(such for instance as theThe autbor had every advantage, byheing in the service of government,-a circumstance which considerablyfacilitates abranch of inquiry som~what caleulated in its procedure$to excite jealousy. Nir. Bowles \Vas a native of Cork. 'Vhereeverhe, acquired his science, he posse~sed a stockQf general ideas v~ry