608 RetrofpeSf of Dome/llc Literature. — Voyages and Travels. 



of commerce. Mr. Oddy, in his •' Eu- 

 ropean Commerce ■, or, Neiv and Secure 

 Channels of Trade tvilh the Continent of 

 Europe, particularly •with RuJ/ia, PruJJia, 

 S'weden, Denmark, and Germany : includ- 

 ing alj'c the Trade of the Rivers Elbe, 

 H'efer and Ems;" has entered very 

 deeply into its philofophical principles, 

 and lie has recorded the praftical as well 

 as the theoretical part ot knowledge. The 

 worlc is divided into i'cven books, each of 

 which is alligned to the traffic of Come 

 particiil.u country : ot thefe, five relate 

 to thofe which are rerpe(5lively mentioned 

 Jn the title; the third to Mecklenburg, 

 and the leventh to Great Britain. In 

 treating of each of thefe countries fepa- 

 rately, he prefents firlt its general mems 

 and accommodations of commerce, its ex- 

 tent, leas, rivers, means both of external 

 and internal communication an. I produce ; 

 proceed* to its fea.ports, and afterwards 

 to inch internal eftablifliments, whether of 

 trading companies or banks, which feem 

 coniiecfid more remotely wiih commerce ; 

 and concludes with the exports and im- 

 ports. Without entering into more mi- 

 nute (latements, or examining the parti- 

 cular opinions of the author, let it I'uffice 

 to oblerve that hi^ work prefents a more 

 complete body of intelligence on the com- 

 mercial operations and capacities of the 

 north of Europe, than we have ever ieen 

 before, and that it will be found equally 

 ufeful to the trader and the ftatel'man. 



Mr.LuccocK's performance on "The 

 Nature atid Properties of IVool," though 

 better calculated tor the raanufadurer than 

 the farmer, contains a variety ot curious 

 information. The part %vhich difcrimi- 

 nates the different forts is perhaps the aiolt 

 valuable. 



VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 



•• A Voyage round the World, in the 

 Years 1801, 1802, 1803, and \%oi^.\ in 

 ivhich the Author i>i/ited the principal 

 Iflands in the Pacific Ocean, and the Eng- 

 lijh Settlements of Port Jackfon and Nor- 

 folk Ifland."" By John Turnbull. 



It may be proper to oblerve oi Mr. 

 Turnbull's voyage, that it was originally 

 written with no other view than theamule- 

 ment and information of hisprivate friends, 

 through wiiol'e perlii'fions he has at lergth 

 given it to the world. It his one mrrit 

 which will certainly be acknowledger! by 

 .rea.icis of every cla!s who may perufe it: 

 it is free from a variety ('f iietail* with 

 w lich tlie gturrality of furh works are 

 uiually overloaded, and preients u» with 

 no tecboicai cxtraQs iccni the log-books of 



the voyage. The objefl of the undertak- 

 ing was commercial : to alcer'ain whether 

 the Americans did not carry on a lucra- 

 tive trade to the northwelt of the vaft 

 continent they inhabit. The idea of it 

 had tirlt occuired while Mr. Turnbull 

 was fecond officer of the Harwell, in a 

 voyage from China in 1799 ; and having 

 been communicated to fome gentlemen of 

 well-known mercantile enterprife, they 

 rot only approved of the fpeculation, but 

 loll no time in preparing for its execution. 

 A new (hip, builc wholly of Britith oak, 

 was at length purchafed, and the command 

 of it given to the gentleman who had 

 been firft officer of the Barwell, while the 

 c3rgo and trading part was intruded to 

 Mr. Turnbull : and having each of them, 

 as owners, confideiab'e (hares, they wete 

 equally interefted in the fuccefs of the 

 voyage. Having completed all their pre- 

 parations, they let fail from Portimoulh 

 on the lit of July, 1800, and with fair 

 wirds and fanguir.e hopes foon reached 

 the idand of Madeira, where Mr. Turn- 

 hull complains bitterly of the innumerable 

 fwarms of begging friars. In the fur- 

 ther progrefs of the voyage they were (o 

 hampered by (outherly winds, as to have 

 approached within two degrees and a halt 

 of the coall of Brazil ; when the vcticl 

 being new and unfeafoned, they bore up 

 to St. Salvadore, to obtain repairs previ- 

 ous to their entering into the higher lati- 

 tudes. Refpefting the Brszils, Mr. 

 Turnbull expreffcs himfelf vtry freely, 

 and without referve. Every thing he law 

 there convinced him cf the value of this 

 fettlement to the Britiih empire, in the 

 event of a ruptuie between England and 

 Portugal. Though perhaps he does not 

 take ulterior confiderations into view when 

 he obferves, that it France fnould antici- 

 pate us in paining poffefnon of them, (he 

 would comptrnfate the lots of Malta and 

 Egypt. Having touched at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, of which Mr. Turnbull 

 gives a favourable account, the veflel 

 (iood direftly for New Holland, where 

 confiderable attention feems to have been 

 paid to the population, general charafler 

 of the fettlers, and civil government, at 

 Sydney. The general chara6\er of the 

 natives of New South Wales is by na 

 means favourable. Mr. Turnbull con- 

 fiders the aboriginal inhabitants of this 

 didant region as indeed beyond comparilcn 

 the molt barbarous on the furface of the 

 globe, and obJerves that the refidence of 

 Europeans theie has been wholly inetfec. 

 tual for their civilization. Their fmgular 

 talents at mimicry, thdr perfonal quali- 

 ties. 



