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I. BY this unpretending little volume its author has opened up to view a new avenue to knowledge—a royal road, in short, to anyone as competent as he has shown himself to be to take advantage of all that it offers to an intelligent traveller with his eyes and ears open. Its contents are a rich collection of facts and thoughts, chiefly botanical, meteorological, and geographical, acquired during a five months' voyage over 18,400 miles of ocean, and embracing 100° of latitude, during which the author passed only seventy days on dry land; and they are laid before the reader in a style which is as attractive as instructive.
Notes of a Naturalist in South America.
By John Ball, &c. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1887.)
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Notes of a Naturalist in South America . Nature 35, 529–531 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035529a0
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