1 ]5 Manufcripts in the Library of the late King of France. [Sept. 1, 



range their herbals, abundant in giami- 

 neoui plants, and their geological collec- 

 tions i to calculate their baionietric and 

 trigononnetrica! meafuiements performed 

 in the courfe of that year ; and in parti- 

 cular to make fair drawings of the geo- 

 logical Atlas, which M. Humboldt pro- 

 pofcs to publifii. 



Their return furniftied them alfo with 

 an opportunity of aflifting at the eieflion 

 of the coloflal cqufftrian ftatue of the 

 King, which cne ar:iif, M. Tolfa, over- 

 coming difficulties of which a proper idea 

 cannot be formed in Euiope, modelled, 

 caft, and eretfed en a very high pedeftal : 

 it is wrought in the fiinpltfi ftyle, and 

 would be an ornament in the fined capi. 

 tals in Europe. 



In January 1804 our trnvellers left 

 Mexico to explore the eaftern declivity of 

 the Cordillera of New Spain : they mea- 

 fured geometrically the two volcanoes of 

 Puebla, Popocatepec, and Itzsccihuatl — 

 Accordic.g to a fabulous tradition, Diego 

 Ordaz entered the inacctfTible crater of the 

 former, fufpended by ropes, in order to 

 collefV fulphur, which may be found every 

 where in the plains. 



M. Humboldt dilcovered that the vol- 

 cano of Popocatepec, on which M. Son- 

 renfchmidt, a zealous mineralogift, had 

 the courage to afcend 2557 toifes, is higher 

 than the peak of Orizaba, which has hi- 

 therto been confidered the higlieft col (Tus 

 of the country of Anahuac. He meafured 

 alfo the great pyramid of Cholula, a my- 

 fterious work conlhufted of unbaked brick 

 by the Tulteqnas, and from the fummit of 

 which there is a moft beautiful view 

 over the fnowy fummits and fmiling 

 plains of Tlaxcala. 



After thefe refearches they defcendcd 

 by Perote to Xal.ipa, a town fituated at 

 tne heisht of 674. toifes above the level of 

 the fea, at a mean height at which the in- 

 habitants enjoy the fruits of all climates, 

 and a temperature equally mild and bene- 

 ficial to tile health of man. It was here 

 that, by tiie kindnefs of Mr. Thomas 

 Murphy, a lefpeiftable individual, who to 

 a large fortune adds a talte for (he fci- 

 encts, our travellers found every fuciliiy 

 imaginable for performing their operations 

 in the neighbouring mountains. 



The level of the horrid road which 

 leads from Xalapa to Perote, through al- 

 moft impenetrable forelts of oaks and firs, 

 and which has brgun to be converted into 

 a magnificent cauleway, was three times 

 tifken with the barometer. M. Humboldt, 

 notwithftanding the quantity of fnow 

 which had fallen t e evening^ before. 



afcended to the fummit of the famous 

 Cofre, which is i6z toifes higher than 

 the Peak of Teneriffe, and fixed i:s poii- 

 tion by diieft oblervations. He meafur- 

 ed alfo trigonometrically the Peak f Ori. 

 zava, which the Indians call Si;laltcptl, 

 bccaufe the luminous exhalations of its 

 crater refemble at a diftance a fsUiiig (f^r, 

 and refpefting the longitude of which M. 

 Ferrer pub. iflied Vc-ry cxaff obftrvations. 



After an interelling refidence in thefe 

 countries, where, under the (liade of the 

 liquidambar and nmyr'is, are found grow- 

 ing the epidendrum vanilla a.nd con-uolvu- 

 lus jalappa, two prcduLfions equally va- 

 luable for exportation, our travellers de- 

 fcended towards ihe coaft of Vera Cruz,, 

 fituated between hills of fhifting fand, 

 the reverberation of which caufes a fuffo- 

 cating heat ; but happily efcaped the yel- 

 low-lever, which prevailed there at that 

 time. 



They proceeded in a Spanifh frigate to 

 the Havannah to get the coUeftions and 

 herbals left there in 1800, and, after a ftay 

 of two months, embaiked for the United 

 States : but they were txpofed to great 

 danger in the channel of the Bahamas from 

 a hurricane which lafted feven days. 



After a paiVige of thirty-two days they 

 arrived at Philadelphia ; remained in that 

 city and in Walhingfon two months; and 

 returned 10 Europe in Auguft 1804, by 

 the way of Bourdeaux, with a great num- 

 ber of drawings, thirty-five b. xes of col- 

 leftions, and 6coo fpeciesof plants. 



For the Monthly Magazine. 



TRANSLATION of MSB. relative to En- 

 glish HISTORY contained in the na- 

 tional LIBRARY at VA.9.1%, formerly 

 BiBLiOTHEQUE du ROJ. {^Continued 

 from vol. xviii. p. 298.) 



Further proceedings agalnjl joan of 



ARC. PART III. 



THIS third part is divided into two 

 articles: the firft contains the pro- 

 ceedings from the day on which they be- 

 gan to make the monitions ; and the fe- 

 cond from that time up to the ahjuraiion 

 of the accufed. 



Art. I. — It muft not be forgotten that 

 the twelve articles t© whicii the whole 

 procefs had been reduced, had neither 

 been comprelTed nor approved by all thofe 

 who had fate as affeflors up to this day, 

 but merely by a fmall number of them ; 

 and that the fchedule which they tranlmit. 

 ted for the opinions of the profeflion, as 

 well as the choice of thofe who were con- 

 fultcd, had been the work of two judge* 



only 



