Produced by Brendan OConnor, Erica Hills, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Library of Early Journals.) Transcriber's Note Spellings are sometimes erratic. A few obvious misprints have been corrected, but in general the original spelling has been retained. Accents in the French phrases are inconsistent, and have not been standardised. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No. CCCLXXXV. NOVEMBER, 1847. Vol. LXII. CONTENTS. THE NAVIGATION OF THE ANTIPODES. 515 AMERICAN COPYRIGHT. 534 EVENINGS AT SEA.--NO. II. 547 HENRY MEYNELL. WAS RUBENS A COLOURIST? 564 THE AMERICAN LIBRARY. 574 UNITS: TENS: HUNDREDS: THOUSANDS. 593 RESEARCH AND ADVENTURE IN AUSTRALIA. 602 MAGUS MUIR. 614 A NOVEMBER MORNING'S REVERIE. 618 VALEDICTORY VISITS AT ROME. THE VILLA BORGHESE. 622 THE VILLA ALBANI. 626 HIGHLAND DESTITUTION. 630 * * * * * THE NAVIGATION OF THE ANTIPODES.[1] One of the most striking, and perhaps the most intellectual advances of the age, is in the progress of geographical discovery. It is honourable to England, that this new impulse to a knowledge of the globe began with her spirit of enterprise, and it is still more honourable to her that that spirit was originally prompted by benevolence. Cook, with whose voyages this era may be regarded as originating, was almost a missionary of the benevolence of England, and of George III.; and the example of both the great discoverer and the good king has been so powerfully impressed on all the subsequent attempts of English adventurers, that there has been scarcely a voyage to new regions which has not been expressly devised to carry with it some benefit to their people.