no HiJIory of Afironomy for the Year 1800. 



lirties every month. In this journal portraits of thofc able 

 afh'ononicrs Delambre, Mechain, Burg, and Duc-Lachapellc, 

 have been given, together with an aecount of their labours. 

 Tbofe of Mechain are very confiderable. 



M. Bogdanich undertook alfo a fimilar tour, and on His 

 return brouglit back a great many determinations. 



Our knowledge of the geography of diftant countries has 

 been confidcrably enlarged by the voyages of Vancouver and 

 Marchand round the world : that of the latter has been pub- 

 liflied by Fleurieu in four volumes quarto. To thefe we may 

 add Symes's embaflTy to Ava, Park's travels in Africa ; thole 

 of Brown, who was as far as Darfoor in the interior of Ne- 

 gritia ; thofe of Horncman, to w^hom general Bonaparte pro- 

 cured the means of penetrating thither, and who has already 

 fent home his journal; and thofe of Dambergcr, who fpent 

 feveral years in Africa, which have been publiflied at Leipfic 

 with a curious map of Africa by M. Goldbach : they are 

 now tranflating into French. When I publifhed my Memoir 

 on Africa in 1791, nothing was known of that immenfe 

 cmmtry. By colle6ling a few fafts I endeavoured to excite 

 emulation and curiofity ; and my wiflies are already in a 

 great mcafure aceo-mpliflied. 



Vaillant propofes to return to Africa, where he has already 

 diflinguiflied himfclf; and a company of merchants at Mar- 

 fcilles have announced an eftabliihmerit on the eaftern coaft 

 of that country. 



Seventeen charts of the coafts of South America and of 

 thegulph of Mexico have been publiflied at the Repofitory of 

 theSpanifli Marine eftabliOied in 1791. Nautical tables have 

 been publiflied by Mendoza, and memoirs refpefting naviga- 

 tion by I.opez Royo and Galiano. .Jofeph dc Spinofa, cap- 

 tain in the royal navy and dire6tor of the repofitory, has done 

 every thing to render himfclf ufeful; and there is reafon to 

 hope for great things from his intelligence and zeal. 



We have received alfo an account of the voyage undertaken 

 to the ftraits of Magellan in 1785 and 1786 by Don An- 

 tonio de Cordoba, Don Dioniiio Alcala Galiano, and Don 

 Alexander Belmonte, with a great many charts and obferva- 

 tioiis. 



9 M. Rofll! 



