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Retrofpeii of French Literature.— Mifcellaneous. 



for drawing up this account, to facilitate 

 the means of procuring marts, hemp, and 

 naval (fores, for the ailenal at Toulon, 

 by means of the Dnieper ; ami it woiilJ 

 appear from the details, that leverai rafts 

 of mafts had been a(5lually obraiiied from 

 Lithuania. 



The town of Kijabey, in 1796, was 

 called Odefla, by order of the late Em- 

 prefs; it is admirably firuate for the com- 

 merce of BelTarabia, as well as tiiat of 

 the palatinates of Breflaw, Podolia, Volh- 

 nia, and the other territories of Poland, 

 which fell to the lot of that princefs,. in 

 the two laft partitions of the antient le- 

 public. 



Alexander T., defiroiis of following tip 

 the plans of his grandmnther, has been at 

 infinite pains to render Odell'a a phce of 

 importance, and for this purpofe he has 

 placed the Duke de Richelieu at th;- head 

 of Natcitz and the a.Hjiininjr diftiiff, 

 with fuch extenfive and in.ltpencier.t 

 powers, that he is to render an account 

 oi his conduft to the mini.feis of hig 

 Imperial Majefty at Peferfburg alone.' 



MISCiiLLANEOUS. 



" Abrege de I'Hilioire Gtnerale des 

 Voyages fails en Europe, c 'Hienant ce 

 qu'il y a de plus re;nar<ju:ible, de plus 

 utile et de mieux avere dans les Pays cii 

 Jes Voyageurs ont penetrc; les Moeurs des 

 Habitans, la Religion, les Uf^ges, Anset 

 Sciences, Commerce, Manufaflures ; en- 

 rich! de Cartes gdographiques et de Fi- 

 gures." — Abridgfmcnt of a General Hif. 

 tory of Travels in Europe, ont^ining 

 whatever is molt remarkable. Sic. by J. 

 B. J.Breton, continuator of Laharp^'s 

 Abridgement. 



The firft eight volumes of this periodi- 

 cal woi k are now prefented to the public : 

 it contains a v:iricty of ufeful inf rmaticn, 

 and the author complains bitterly of the 

 piracies to which it has beenexpoled, 



" De TAgricuIture, conlideree dans 

 fes Rapports avec I'Economie Politique, 

 d'ou I'on de iu't la Necefiite I'etablir des 

 Ferraes Experiment:des pour fonder I'Art 

 Agricole.". — Of Agriculture, iccnfidt red in 

 Connexionwiih Political Ecorouiy, whence 

 IS deduced the NeccfTity of eftablifliinf/ 

 experiinsntal Farms as a furdamenial Balls 

 to this Art. By M. Ft amen d'Assigny, 

 formerly one of the min.illers of France. 



Much ufelefs arguir.ent i^ here re- 

 curred to, with a view of demonftrating 

 that agriculture ought to be confid-red as 

 the f]:ft of all arts, as without it men 

 could not pi aftife any other, or even exift 

 in a ftate of-fociety. 



It is eiify to peicieve, that the fchctne 



here laid down was affuaily propofei, and 

 even carried into effcft, by Sir J.ihn Sin- 

 clair, in England. The author oh- 

 lerves, " (hat a Lavoifier, overflowing 

 wiih gold, and fparklinc; with genius, 

 has become neceiTary to difpel the chaos 

 in which the agiicultura! art remains (till 

 enveloped. 



" ObfervatI ns fur quelques Points de 

 I'Anatomie du Singe Veit, et Reflexions 

 Phyfiologiques fur le meiie Sujct, par T. 

 LoRDAT, D')"eur en Medecine, Medecia 

 en Chef du Depot de mendicittde Mont- 

 pellier, chef des travaux anatoniiques de 

 I'Ecole de Me.tecine, fecre'airc-per|ietuel 

 de la Societe medicale de ia meme villc," 

 X:r. — Lordat's O if. rvatlon* on feme P.uts 

 of the Anatomy of the Green Monkey, 

 together with Phyfiological Reflexions on 

 the fame. 



Tills fubjeft, although it has already 

 been treated by Daubenton, Vicq d'.-^zir, 

 and Cuvitr, is not entnely exhaulted; for 

 it lias been ag-tin examined by this ana- 

 tomlt, who appeari to have exhibited 

 great patience, at:ention, and abilities, on 

 the occafion. 



" Voyage a TOueft des Monts Alle- 

 ghanys dans les Etats de TOhio, du Kan- 

 tuck v et du TennefTsCjet Retour a Charlef. 

 town par les hautes Carolines ; contenant 

 des Details fur TEtat actuel de I'Agiicul- 

 ture et les Produfiions Niturelles de ces 

 trees, ainfi que des renl'eignemens fur les 

 Rapports commeiciaux qui exiftent entre 

 ces Etats et ceux fitucs a I'oueft des Mon- 

 tagnes et -de la bsfTe Louifiane. Avec 

 une Carte tres-foignee desEtrits du centre 

 de rOuelt et du Sud des Etats Unis." — 

 Travels to the Weft of the Alleghany 

 Moui tains, in ths; Stales of the O'aio, 

 Kentucky, and Teneflee, &:c. By E. .\. 

 Mich aux, M. D. 



This traveller fet out on his journey 

 from the neighbourhood of Charleftown, 

 where his father polT, fits a botanical g:ir- 

 den, in which is to be found a gieat va- 

 rie'y of the plants both of the old and 

 the new continents. As his mind was 

 filled with an anient defire for botanical 

 relearches during his (tay at New York, 

 he made excurfions into the Jerfeys, and 

 on the banks of North River, where he 

 difcovcred the white oak (quercus alba), 

 and among a variety of nut-trees found tlie 

 jtiglans tomentoj'a, and ihejug/afis minima. 

 In moill fpots, generally oveif^o-ved with 

 water, t\\e juglans kickery, and the quercus 

 prinus aquatica, are alfo to be met vvith; 

 while the valleys are peopled with p;an- 

 tanes, poplar, the cornus fiorida, the 

 quercus t'miiariat &c. Some acoms ex- 

 ported 



