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Views of Calcutta.

A SERIES of Twenty-four interesting VIEWS of CALCUTTA and its ENVIRONS, after correct and beautifully finished Drawings, executed from Sketches taken on the spot, by JAMES BAILLIE FRASER, Esq., Author of A Journey inte Khorasan,''Views in the Himala Mountains,' &c. &c.

Price of the Series, neatly half-bound, with engraved Frontispiece, £16: 16s., single Plates, 14s.

Subscribers to the First Part of the Series may have their sets completed at 40s. each Number, on application to the Publishers.

Elgin Cathedral.

A SERIES of FIVE VIEWS of the VENERABLE and MAGNIFICENT RUINS of this justly celebrated CATHEDRAL, from accurate Drawings taken by Mr. WILLIAM CLARK, an Artist, resident at Elgin."

This most splendid Edifice, which has for Centuries past called forth the admiration of the Artist, the Antiquary, and the Connoisseur, is too well known to require any eulogium; and the interesting Views now offered to the public, comprehend every Arch and object worthy of notice in the whole of its extensive range. The Engravings are executed in the most finished style of Aquatinta, and printed in the Bistre Tint, in imitation of the Original Drawings.

To render them still more interesting and complete, they are accompanied by a most accurate and neatly engraved Ground Plan of the Cathedral, exhibiting the whole Range of its Foundations, taken expressly for the Work, by Mr. ROBERTSON, Architect.

Price Two Guineas and a Half, in a Cover, with a Descriptive and Historica! Account of the Cathedral, from its erection in 1224. A very limited number of Proofs have been taken off on India paper, price Four Guineas.

Speedily will be published, as a companion to COLERIDGE'S "Six Months in the West Indies," and uniformly printed with that deservedly popular work, a volume, entitled, SKETCHES and RECOLLECTIONS of the WEST INDIES; with Notices of the Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants, State of the Slave Population, &c.; and embracing an account of the Attack on Domínica by the French Squadron from Rochefort, in 1805.

BY A RESIDENT.

Drawn from actual and long continued observation, this work will be found to contain the most complete view that has yet appeared of every thing connected with our West Indian Colonies.

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