26 JULY 1828, page 13

Extracts.

CROSSING A TORRENT IN THE ANDES. "TuE velocity with which the water comes down when the snow melts in the mountains, is beyond all conception. I was here informed, that the......

The First Volume Of Parriana, By Mr. E. H. Barker,

is on the point of publication *. It is, like all Mr. BARKER'S publications, exceedingly farraginous ; nevertheless, the subject is curious, and he has collected together the......

Spectabilia.

Children and servants are remarkably Herodotean in their style of nar- ration. If an educated man were giving an account of the late change of administration, he would say—'......