BLACKWOOD'S
Edinburgh
MAGAZINE.
VOL. LX.
JULY-DECEMBER, 1846.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH
AND
37, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.
1846
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: A few obvious misprints have been corrected, butin general the originally erratic spelling, punctuation andtypesetting conventions have been retained. Accents in foreignlanguage poetry and phrases are inconsistent in the original, and havenot been standardized.
BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
No. CCCLXIX.JULY, 1846.Vol. LX
CONTENTS.
| Peru, | 1 |
| Letters on English Hexameters. Letter I., | 19 |
| Marlborough's Dispatches. 1708-1709, | 22 |
| The Americans and the Aborigines. Part the Last, | 45 |
| The Death of Zumalacarregui, | 56 |
| New Scottish Plays and Poems, | 62 |
| Elinor Travis. Chapter the Second, | 83 |
| More Rogues in Outline, | 101 |
| The Last Recollections of Napoleon, | 110 |
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PERU.[1]
A clever book of travels, overground comparatively untrodden, isin these days a welcome rarity. Nodearth is there of vapid narratives bydeluded persons, who, having leisure totravel, think they must also have witto write: with these we have longbeen surfeited, and heartily gratefuldo we feel to the man who strikesout a new track, follows it observantly,and gives to the world, in pleasantand instructive form, the result of hisobservations. Such a traveller wehave had the good fortune to meetwith, and now present to our readers.
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