Sketches of China. By J.F. Davis. 2 vols. 12mo. 1845. The Jews in China. By J. Finn. 12mo. London, 1844. Les Juifs de la Chine, par H. Hirsch, (extrait des Israélites de France). 1844. Relation des Voyages faits par les Arabes et les Persans dans l'Inde et à la Chine, dans le IXth siècle de l'ère Chrétienne, par M. Reinaud. Paris, 1845. 2 vols. 18mo. Three years wanderings in China. By Robert Fortune. 8vo. London, 1847. The philological and other works on China, by M. Pauthier, a distinguished French scholar, are among the most valuable works in this department of learning. They embrace the following. Sinico-Ægyptiaca, essai sur l'origine et la formation similaire des écritures figuratives Chinoise et Égyptienne, etc. 8vo. De l'origine des différents systèmes d'écriture. 4to. Examen méthodique des faits qui concernent le Thian-Tchu ou l'Inde; traduit du Chinois. 8vo. Documents statistiques officiels sur l'empire de la Chine; traduits du Chinois. 8vo. La Chine, avec 73 planches. 8vo. La Chine ouverte, aventures d'un Fan-kouei dans le pays de Tsin; illustré par Auguste Borget. 8vo. Paris, 1845. La Chine et les Chinois, par le même. 8vo. Paris, 1844. Systema Phoneticum Scripturæ Sinicæ, auctore. J.M. Callery. 2 vols. royal 8vo. Macao, 1842. Narrative of the second campaign in China, by R.S. Mackenzie. 12mo. London. A work by G. Tradescant Lay; and another by Professor Kid, have also been published on China. FOOTNOTES: [1] In a paper read by Mr. Schoolcraft before the American Ethnological Society, it was clearly shown by existing remains, in Michigan and Indiana, plans of which were exhibited, that vast districts of country, now covered by forests and prairies, bear incontestable proofs of having been subject to cultivation at a remote period and before the forest had begun its growth. [2] This figure of an extended hand is the most common of all the symbols of the aboriginal tribes of America. It is found on the ancient temples, and within the tombs of Yucatan. At the earliest period it was used by the Indians, in the United States, and at the present time, it is employed by the roving bands and large tribes from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, and from Texas northward. [3] "Bottoms" and "bottom lands," are terms applied to the flat lands adjoining rivers. In the State of New York they are called "flats"--as the "Mohawk flats." [4] Second Note sur une pierre gravée trouvé dans un ancien tumulus Americain, et à cette occasion, sur l'idiome Libyen, par M. Jomard. 8vo. Paris, 1846. [5] See Mr. Catherwood's paper on the Thugga monument and its inscriptions, in the Ethnolg. Trans. Vol. I. p. 477. [6] Notes on Africa. p.