Hijiory of JJironomy for the Year iSoo. ill 



M, RoiTel is employed in England in arranging the journal 

 of his voyage with d'Entrecalteaux, which he purpofes to 

 publifli. M. Lagrandiere, another officer belonging to the 

 fame expedition, has alfo a journal ; and it is probable that 

 the Britifh government, to whom it was communicated, made 

 ufe of it for the chart of New Holland lately publilhed. 



C, Meignicn, now at Madrid, has had the courage to 

 trandate into French four Spaniih works relating to naviga- 

 tion, and has fent the manufcripts to the Kepolitory of the 

 Marine at Paris. 



I (liall fay nothing of the great number of new charts and 

 maps which have appeared in England and Germany : they 

 have been announced in the General Journal of Foreign Li- 

 terature, edited by M. Loos, and publifhed by Treuttel and 

 Wurtz at Paris. This journal is an imnienfe repofitory of 

 books, which without its aid would be unknown to us. 



The General Journal of French Literature, publiflied by 

 the fame bookfellers, is alfo of importance on account of the 

 great care they take to omit nothing. The iirll year contains 

 1680 articles. 



We ought to mention alfo the Literary Notices, or fpirit 

 of the foreign journals, printed for Koenig at Paris and at 

 Strafburg, which contain interefting information in regard 

 to aftronomy. 



We have received from Humboldt obfervations made in 

 South America, to which he has been conducted by the love 

 of fcicnce. His knowledge in artronomy, natural philofophy 

 and natural hiftory, his zeal and his fortune, all equally con- 

 tribute to render his travels interefting. 



The Memoirs refpe^ling the Marine, by A. Thevenard, 

 vice-admiral, publiflied in the month of November by Lau- 

 rens, in four volumes o6lavo, contain various articles on 

 geography, and one in particular on Cape Circumcifion, 

 which gave occafion to a difcuffion between me and the illuf- 

 trious author, which was publiflied in the Connoiffance des 

 Temps for 1798. 



L B. Le Chevalier has publiflied a defcription of the Pro- 

 pontis, the Fontus Euxinus, the Bofphorus, and the channel 



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