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Books.

MR. BAKER'S TRAVELS.* [SECOND NOTICE.] THE second volume of this delightful book will interest the geo- grapher even more than the first, for it contains the discovery which Mr.......

Reform Of Weights And Measures. [i'o The Editor Of The

"SPECTATOR."] Grove House, Highgate, May 31, 1866. SIR,-I now propose to pass in rapid review some of the leading principles on which the prospects of the metric system are......