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TRAVELS.

Mr. James Mitchell has in the press, a Tour through Belgium, Holland, along the Rhine, and through the North of France, in

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Some Account of the Lives and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio and Guillen de Castro. By Henry Richard Lord Holland. A new edition, with additions, and two portraits. 2 vols. small 8vo. 11. 1s.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE.

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Sir William Gell has nearly ready for pub-graphy; with an explanatory treatise, whereA Map of Scriptural and Classical Geolication, the Itinerary of the Morea, in a small octavo volume, with a map. The Scientific Tourist in England and Wales is preparing for the press.

The author of Letters from Paris in 1802-3 is printing, in an octavo volume, Two Tours to France, Belgium, and Spa; one in the summer of 1771, the other in 1816.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

ASTRONOMY.

Evening Amusements; or, the Beauties of the Heavens Displayed; in which the striking appearances to be observed in various evenings during the year 1817 are described. By William Frend, Esq. M.A. Actuary of the Rock Life Assurance Company, and late Fellow of Jesus Colege, Cambridge. 12mo. 3s.

An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy; or, an Easy Introduction to a Knowledge of

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BIOGRAPHY.

Memoirs of the Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Drawn from authentic documents, and illustrated by original correspondence, and a variety of interesting anecdotes: to which is prefixed, a biographical account of his family. By John Watkins, LL D. &c. Embellished with portraits. 4to. l. 11s. 6d.

in the documents of sacred and ancient civil history, relative to the origin of nations, are particularly examined and discussed. The whole intended to facilitate a knowledge of the progressive colonization of the earth, and from which it is proved that the most ancient records of the earliest states are derived from, or have analogy to, the Mosaic history. By T. Heming, of Magdalen Hall, Oxon. 11. 1s.; on canvas 11. 6s.

Joannis Scapulæ Lexicon Græco-Latinum; ex Probatis Auctoribus Locupletatiim, cum Indicibus, et Græco et Latino, auctis et

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Memorial Sketches of the late Rev. David Brown, Senior Chaplain to the Precedency of Fort William, at Calcutta ; with a selec-8vo. 11. 11s. 6d. tion of his Sermons. Edited by the Rev. C. Simeon, M.A. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. 8vo. 123.

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NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

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Foreign Literary Eazette.

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GREECE.

National Journal resumed.

The

A spirited Editon of Buffon's Natural History has lately appeared at Paris, including his translations of Dr. Hales's Ve- The modern Greek Journal published dugetable Statics, and Newton's Method of ring three years by the archi-mandrite AnFluxions. The whole forms thirty-fourthimos Gaza, at Vienna, under the title of Volumes in 8vo. with Maps and Etchings of the various figures, in number more than a thousand. The whole is a close copy of the Louvre Edition, and the animals, as in that, are arranged in families. The price is 255fr.

This Edition is restricted to the works of Buffon; printed verbatim. The notes and supplements are placed according to the design of the Author: and the whole is rendered as classical as possible. The entire impression consists of only three hundred common paper copies; and twenty-five large paper (double price). It will soon become a scarce book.

Caution on the effects of Canal Marshes.

In the course of the years 1810, 1811, 1812, 1818, an Epidemic disorder broke out in those communes through which the Canal of the Ourcq passes: and in their neighbourhood. It appears to be certain that it originated in the emanations rising from stagnant water, in the canal, or occasioned by the canal. These, converting the ground into marshes, became powerful Dr. agents in spreading the disorder. Caillard has published an octavo volume on the subject, under the title of Memoirs on the dangers arising from marshy emanations; and on the epidemic disorder that prevailed at Pantin, and in many communes adjacent to the canal of L'Ourcq, in the years above stated.

It is every way probable that this subject might deserve attention in such parts of our own country as are intersected by canals lying on dead levels, fens, marshes, &c. &c.

GERMANY.

Hermes Logios, has suffered an interruption of two years, but is about to be resumed. It will be published monthly. The new editors are, M. Theoklitos, Chaplain to the Greek Chapel of St. George at Vienna; and Constantin Kakkinaki, of the Island of Chio: who translated the Tartuffe of Moliere into modern Greek.

ITALY.

Eminent merit rewarded.

His Holiness has conferred on the Chevalier Canova, the title of Marquis of Ischia, with a pension of three thousand Roman crowns, per anuum. On this occasion, the Pope inscribed with his own hand the Chevalier Canova's name in the golden book of the Capitol.

The Emperor of Austria has also decorated Sig. Canova, now Marquis of Ischia, with the order of Leopold.

New Literary Journal.

At Milan, Sig. Monti, Breislak, Giordani, and Acerbi, have united to institute a Literary Journal under the title of Bibliotheca Italiana a Journal of Literature, Sciences, and Arts; compiled by a Society of Literati. The usual contents of Journals are to be expected in this:-as analyses of New Works, pictures, engravings, machines, inventions, discoveries in the Arts, &c. memoirs and unpublished writings of famous men, &c. A number is published

monthly, at Milan Price in that city about a guinea a year, subscription.

NORWAY.

Statistics. The last enumeration made of the inhabitants of Droutheim, ascerThough Bnonaparte's famous projects tained them to amount to eight thousand of navigable canals from the Mediterranean eight hundred and forty. This is a consito the Baltic, which read so pompously in derable population for a town so far north. the newspapers, as ordered by the Emperor Commerce has occasioned this assemblage. to be cut, and looked so prettily on paper, This town circulates the products of the failed, yet there certainly are many advan-sea, and of the mines; it diffuses life, population and cultivation throughout the tageous points, which might be employed in such a purpose. Of this Dr. Reinhold, mountains, which otherwise would be barren and desert. an architect, and M. J. Oltmans, an astronomer, appear to be fully sensible. They have lately published proposals for a work under the title of Der Deutsche Handelscanal, &c. The Commercial Canals of

VOL. V. No. 28, Lit. Pan. N. S. Jan. 1.

Drontheim Society of Sciences. Within these few years a large and stately edifice built of stone, has distinguished the town of Drontheim. It is the first, and

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the only, of its kind, at present in the northern district of Norway. It is the Institution of the Society of Sciences, for the town and province; it also accommodates the Cathedral School. This Society is an establishment which contributes to spread and encourage the study of the Sciences throughout the northern regions. It possesses ample funds, and has the power of forming interesting collections of many articles in Natural History, &c. It has already acquired two libraries of eminent historians, deceased; with mauv MSS. relating mostly to the topography of the country. Though at present this Society be little known, and but slightly active, vet hereafter, some happy genius may render it famous and illustrious.

PRUSSIA.

Wood set on fire by water!! Certainly an age of inventions carries its own applause with it; and the present is an age of inventions. Our forefathers were accustomed to treat with derision the notion of setting the Thames on fire: we are wiser now. But, the consequences of a conflagration so extensive, in fact, so fatal; neither they, nor we, have suffciently considered. Among the articles published in the Berlin Museum des Neuesten, &c. Museum of new inventions, and discoveries in Arts, Sciences, Mechanic processes, &c. tom. VI in No. 4 for December 1815, is one, describing the inflammation of wood by means of the Vapour of water. The subject seems, at first sight, sufficiently abstruse: but, who shall limit the faculties of man? and if the vapour of water is really found under certain circumstances, to set wood on fire: who shall say under what other circumstances the river Thames may not burn down the whole City of London ?

RUSSIA.

The greater part of the Notes are taken from the Flora Taurico Caucasica of Marshall Biberstein. The Frontispiece is adorned with a Vignette representing an Onyx of the Imperial Museum, with the legend Prima dedit fruges alimentaque mitia terris, with a plate.

SWEDEN.

Remedies used in Guinea.

M. Adam Afzelius having collected during his residence in Guinea a great uumber of observations on the medical substances which were employed in that country, by those best acquainted with their powers and properties, has since his return, committed to some of his most capable pupils the charge of treating them in Academic Programma, in order to their more general communication throughout Sweden.

These have been published, as is usual for such Academic Exercises. The titles of the works respectively are, Remedia Guinensia, quorum præside Ad. Afzelio, Collectionem primam, pro gradu Medico. p. p. J. Ulric Nyberg;--Collectionem Sccundam,p.p. J.J. Kallstenius.-Collectionem Tertiam p. p. Petrus Brandelius ;—Collectionem quartam, quintam, p. p. p. p. Carolus, O. Bange, et Collectionem Otavus Lindbom. 38. p. p.

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scientific names; and are more accurately These substances are denoted by their described if they are new or little known. Then follows the place where they are found, the name given them by the natives of the country, the use made of them in certain diseases, with observations on their nature and effects, &c.

These substances are in number fifteen; and, for the benefit of those of our countrynea, we shall insert their names; a further men who may practice on the Coast of Guiacquaintance with them must be sought

in the works referred to.

1) Amomum latifolium Afzelii; 2) codarium acutifolium Afzelii; 3) zingiber dubium; 4) capsicum baccatum L; 5) justicia tunicata; 8296) scopariu dulcis L.; 7) achyranthes prostrata Lina.; 8) amaryllis ornata L.; 9) cassia occidentalis Linué; 10) jasminum noc.

State of Commerce. Between the 9th of May and the 20th of October last, arrived at Croustadt merchant ships, viz. 41 Russian, 366 Bri tish, 37 Swedish, 14 Norwegian, 57 Danish, 92 Prussian, 44 Dutch, 5 French, 2orum; 11) apocynum frutescens Lina.; Spanish, 19 Portuguese, 9 Hanoverian, IS 12) Ximeria Americana Linn; 13) HippoMecklenburgh, 62 American, &c., crotea veletina; 14) nicotiana tabacum Linu; et 15) bromelia ananas Linn.

Moscow Bo'anic Garden.

The plate represents one of the most The Botanic Garden at Moscow, cou- venomous insects of Guinea; which the 'tained a few years ago, 3,594 Species of | author describes as Araneu viperina, bircurious plants, as appears by the cata-sula, fusca; pedibus super bimaculatis, suitus Jogue, published under the title of Hortus holosericus. Fabricius has described this Mosquensis, a quarto Volume; printed by insect as Aranea calceata. (Entomol. tom. the University. It is disposed in two II. p. 427.) The bite of this Spider is excolumns; by Alphabetic order, and by tremely dangerous: as a remedy, Tobacco genera. Whether the plants are officinal is ashes are employed, together with an inalso indicated by certain marks; and the fusion of the leaves of the Bromelia notes express the synonyms, and diagnoses. Ananus.