and curing this dreadful malady. Four perfons, bitten by one dog, were treated in this manner, and their wounds cleanfed by the application, firft of leeches, and afterward of veficatories. Three of thefe had no fymptoms of madness; their wounds fuppurated kindly, and were foon completely healed; but, of the fourth patient, the wound became very much inflamed, and he was attacked with the hydrophobia; but, by increafing the quantity of mercurial unguent, fo as to occafion a flight falivation, and giving larger dofes of antifpafmodics, the diforder was fubdued, the wound healed, and the patient has ever fince enjoyed perfec health. Another inftance is that of a child and a woman, who were bitten by another dog; the former, on whom there was no opportunity of trying this mode of cure, died of the hydrophobia a few days after the accident; whereas the latter, to whom it was applied under the care of one of M. PORTAL'S pupils, never had the leaft fymptom of the disease.

The remaining memoirs in this volume are concerning fubjects that relate to political economy; but the length to which we have already extended this article, will not allow us to mention more of them than their titles, which are as follow:

On the Ufe of Stoves for the Prefervation of Grain. By M. FOUGEROUX DE BONDAROY.

Concerning a Method of acquiring an exact Knowlege of all the Objects of Culture in Europe, and particularly in France. By the Abbé TESSIER.

Defcription of a Mill for rafping Potatoes, with the Manner of preparing the Meal of them. By M. BAUMÉ.

A Continuation of the Effay, defigned to afcertain the Population of France. By Meffis. DU SEJOUR, DE CONDORCET, and DE LA PLACE.

There are, likewife, a few others relating to ASTRONOMY, NATURAL HISTORY, &c.; which shall be more particularly noticed, when we find leifure to refume the confideration of this volume.

ART. IV.

Voyages dans la Gréce Afiatique, &c. i. e. Travels in Afiatic Greece, to the Peninfula of Cyzicum, to Bruffa and Nice: with Obfervations on the Natural History of these Countries. Tranflated from the Italian of the Abbé DOMINIC SESTINI, of the Academy of Florence. 8vo. pp. 252. Paris. 1789.

TH

HESE letters are written in an eafy, agreeable manner; and will be interefting to the lovers of botany, from the accuracy with which the Abbé has noted and claffed the vegetable productions which he found in his travels, and particularly on mount Olympus. Cyzicum, to which he failed, from Conftan

tinople,

tinople, down the fea of Marmora, is now a peninsula; but was formerly an island, and celebrated for the beauty of its marble, which is remarkably hard, and of a fine white colour, with blue veins; there are two forts of it; in one, the veins are horizontal, and in the other, perpendicular. The country is pleafant, fertile, and well cultivated; it abounds with vines and olive-trees; but the wine made there is very harfh. Near the ruins of ancient Cyzicum, are the remains of a fubterraneous building, which M. SESTINI Conjectures to have been the Heptaphonon defcribed by Pliny, lib. 36. cap. 15. A part of the walls of the city ftill remains ftanding; they are very lofty, built of cubic blocks of the marble and granite found in the ifland, and inclose a large extent of ground. There are alfo fome ruins, which Dr. Pocock fuppofed to be the remains of a circus, but which M. SESTINI, as well as M. De Peyffonel, is inclined to think was anciently a Naumachia.

This peninfula now contains about twenty wretched villages, of which a few are inhabited by Turks, but the greater number by Greeks; who, notwithstanding the oppreffion under which they labour, are cheerful and industrious: their women have fine faces, and retain that gracefulness of perfon and carriage, for which they were fo celebrated in ancient times. There are twelve Greek churches, under the jurifdiction of an archbishop; their priests are ignorant, but artful, and know how to fleece their parishioners. One of them had contrived a method of tricking the Greek girls out of their paras, or two-pences, by means of a fmall crucifix, to which he applies a piece of their money; if it adheres, he pronounces that they will fpeedily be married; but if it falls off, they are told that they must not hope for a hufband; to confole them, however, under this melancholy prospect, he has a crucifix prepared with a glutinous fubftance, which, on their offering a few more paras, will not fail to announce a prediction agreeable to their wishes.

From this place, the Abbé travelled to Bruffa, formerly Prusa ad Olympum; but now remarkable only for the culture of mulberry trees, and the production of filk. Here he was hofpitably, and, in their way, politely received by feveral Turks, whom he vifited; but, according to his defcription, their manners and cuftoms cannot but be very difagreeable to an European: their pride and indolence, as well as their ignorance, not only prevent their enjoying the pleafures of converfation, but caft a gloom over their amufements. Sometimes, indeed, they go out in parties to a pleasant spot near the town, where they fit under fhady trees on the banks of a ftream, and take their pipe and their coffee in profound filence. One of their greateft pleafures confifts in attending to a buffoon, who mounts a kind of roftrum, and diverts the company by relating ftories, which he delivers with the most extravagant

9

extravagant and grotefque gefticulations; by which he fometimes extorts a mile from the audience; for a Turk will not fuffer himself to be furprifed into a laugh. They have also wrestlers, who exert their skill to amufe the fpectators; and they are fometimes entertained by a kind of puppet-fhew, like what are called Chinese fhades, by which low farces are reprefented.

During his refidence in this place, the Abbé, in company with fome other travellers, afcended mount Olympus; after a ride of about three hours and a half from the foot of the mountain, they came to a large plain, where they quitted their horses, and, in about two hours more, gained the fummit; on which, though it was in the month of May, the fnow was yet frozen. The difference between the temperature of the air, on the top, and at the foot of the mountain, appeared to be only five degrees and a half on Réaumur's fcale. Though the vegetation was found to be less vigorous in proportion as they afcended, yet the foil was covered with various trees, fhrubs, and plants, up to the very fummit; where the Abbé obferved the mufcarum, the ornitogallum, the viola montana, feveral fpecies of talapfi, of gentiana cepulea, of encorum, and one of the auricula urfi; he also found the fumaria bulbofa, the pedicularis, the alchimilla, and the nardus firilta. The perpendicular height of the mountain, from the level of the fea, is fuppofed to be about an Italian mile and half; and the dif tance of the fummit from Bruffa, about eighteen miles: it appears to confift of talc, quartz, and white and yellow mica, among which, fmall pyrites are found.

From Bruffa, M. SESTINI went to Nice; and, near it, faw the celebrated church, now called Panaghia by the Greeks, becaufe dedicated to the Virgin Mary, in which the celebrated council was held. There is a good figure of the Virgin, and a most gigantic one of Chrift, in mofaic work; but, in its present ftate, the building looks more like a barn than a church, though it ftill retains the title of a cathedral, and is the fee of a Greek archbishop. What is now called Nice, is a moft wretched place, and remarkably unhealthy. The ancient walls may ftill be traced; they are about four miles in circumference, and are built of large blue ftones, of the fchiftous kind, without any cement: the ornaments and infcriptions of the gates, and other remains of antiquity, are fo much defaced, that they are utterly inexplicable. On his road back to Pera, about an hour's ride from Nice, the Abbé obferved a mausoleum, which, by a Greek infcription on it, appeared to have been built for the afhes of Gneus Caffius Filifcus, fon of Gneus Caffius Afclepiadus, aged eighty-three years. The Abbé concludes that this was fome relation of the Afclepiadus mentioned by Pliny. The base of this mausoleum is fquare, and of the compofite order; it fupports a triangular pyramid about thirty feet high, built of five oblong blocks of marble.

ART. V.

Correspondence particuliere du COMTE DE SAINT GERMAIN, &c. i. e. Private Correfpondence between the Count DE SAINT GERMAIN, Secretary of State for the Military Department, Lieutenant-General in the French Service, &c. and M. PARIS DU VERNEY, Privy Counsellor. 2 Vols. 8vo. together, 670 Pages. London. [Paris.] 1789,

W

HEN men, who have filled the higher ftations of life, have been eminent for their character and abilities, the pofthumous publication of their letters, if judiciously conducted, may confer honour on the deceased, and be ufeful to mankind: but, from the life of the Count DE SAINT GERMAIN, prefixed to these letters, we can difcern nothing that should entitle him to an exception from that oblivion, to which mortality configns the common herd of mankind, whatever may have been their rank in political fociety. He is faid to have been an officer of courage and judgment; but was never employed as commander-in-chief in any enterprise of importance; and, when fecond, generally quarrelled with his fuperior. Having conceived a difguft against the Marshal Duc DE BROGLIO, with whom he had a command in the campaign of 1760; and who feems to have borne his unwarrantable behaviour with great temper and forbearance; he refigned his commiffion; and went into the fervice of Frederic V. king of Denmark, who was then threatened with a war by the Czar Peter III. The Count was entrusted with the command of the army; in which ftation his conduct, with respect to the city of Hamburgh, was unjuft and oppreffive: his fubfequent attempts to new-model the military eftablishment of Denmark failed, from the ill-judged precipitation and violence with which they were conducted; and he loft all his influence at the court,, from which he then retired; but was recalled, in the fucceeding reign, by the recommendation of the unfortunate Count Struenfee; after whose death, he left that country, and went into Alface, leaving his whole fortune in the hands of a banker of Hamburgh, whofe failure reduced him to extreme poverty and diftrefs. In retirement, and under affliction, his character appears to much greater advantage, than in the more active fcenes and profperous circumftances of life. He was affifted, amid thefe difficulties, by. the officers of the German regiments in the French fervice, who raifed among themfelves an annual income of two thousand crowns; and conveyed it to him in a manner fo fecret, that he never knew who were his generous benefactors. This delicate act of liberality did great honour to the Baron de Wurmfer, who propofed and conducted it; efpecially as he was fo far from being in terms of friendship with the Count, that a mifunderstanding. had long fubfifted between them. At length, he was recalled to

the

the French court, and appointed in 1775 to fucceed Marshal Du Muy, as fecretary of State for the military department; but his adminiftration was very unpopular, and, according to the account here given, very injudicious. After experiencing much vexation from the general difcontent occafioned by his ill-concerted meafurés, he retired from court in 1777, about four months before his death.

The correfpondence here publifhed turns entirely on the ope rations of the army, and on military politics; fubjects exceedingly uninterefting to thofe, who are not profeffionally concerned in them. It is faid, in the title, to be printed in London; but the paper and letter convince us that this is only a feint, either from prudential reasons, or perhaps only to excite the curiofity of the public.-We doubt whether it has ever, yet, found its way into our metropolis.

ART. VI

Le Pantheon litteraire, fous l'Invocation des neuf Mufts, &c. i. e. The literary Pantheon, dedicated to the nine Mules, to Themis, to Æfculapius, and to the three Graces; containing didactic Differtations and curious Obfervations on the Rife and Progress of the Arts and Sciences; together with Poems, Anecdotes, Epigrams, &c. for the Year 1789. 12mo. pp. 341. Paris.

HE fubject of this fanciful title is an almanac, fuperior in

Tdeed to the majority of thefe Alimfy publications, as it is filled

up, not with paltry fongs and enigmas, but with differtations on different branches of fcience and literature; which are diftributed under separate heads or chapters; or, as the Editor is pleafed to call them, Galleries; each of which bears the title of the mythological deity, who is fuppofed to prefide over the art or science to which it relates. In short, the Editor informs us, that be defigns it should be a temple, in which every muse shall have her peculiar fhrine.

The differtations are various in point of merit; but fome of them are written by men efteemed for their literary talents, Among thefe, under the title of Thalia, is one on dramatic amufements, by the Chevalier de MEUDE MONPAS, in which there are many very fenfible obfervations: he reprehends the prevailing fondness for exhibitions of this kind on private theatres, enlarges on the impropriety and indelicacy of young ladies thus expofing them. felves, as the objects of, perhaps, invidious criticism, to a numerous, however felect, company; and obferves that, in thefe repre fentations, ladies and gentlemen take great pains only to difplay their inferiority even to fecond-rate actors, who, having the habits of stage deportment, and being under better theatrical difcipline, muft have greatly the advantage of thefe voluntary and occafional performers.