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"extraordinary High Tide."

1r would appear impossible to persuade people, however highly vilized, that Nature works by general laws—that what has happen- ed once may and perhaps will happen again. One......

Spectator's Library.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, Viet to the Portuguese Possessions In South-western Africa. By G. Tams. M.D. Translated from the German, with an Introduction and Annotations, by H. Evans......

Proper Distribution Of Railways.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London,18th December 1845. SIR—Were it possible to divert public attention for a moment from the present all-engrossing Ministerial " crisis " to......