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Is it worth while for a traveller to make a six weeks tour the subject of a book? Probably most people would answer promptly and emphatically, No; but any one who reads Mr. Abercromby's work will see that the reply may be wrong, and that everything depends on the nature of the scenes visited, and on the traveller's ability to give an account of his impressions. In the course of six weeks Mr. Abercromby twice crossed the main chain of the Caucasus by passes which are little used except by natives. He was fortunate enough to secure, through the instrumentality of Prince Dondukoff Korsakoff, the Governor-General of the Caucasus, a circular letter in Russian and Arabic to all in authority wherever he might wish to go. This, he says, acted like a charm, securing for him at every place the utmost hospitality. He had, therefore, the best possible opportunities of seeing what he desired to see, and of forming just opinions as to the characteristics of the people whom he visited.
A Trip through the Eastern Caucasus.
By the Hon. John Abercromby. (London: Edward Stanford, 1889.)
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A Trip through the Eastern Caucasus. Nature 41, 391 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041391b0
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