T. D. RIDLEY.

West Hartlepool.

_Huc's Travels._--I was lately told, I think on the authority of a writer

in the _Gardener's Chronicle_, that the travels of Messrs. Huc and Gabet in

Thibet, Tartary, &c., was a pure fabrication, concocted by some Parisian

_littérateur_. Can any of your readers confirm or refute this statement?