' Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 543 



Tliese works arc indispeii- ^^w HampAbe.—Vfe un.lersfand tliat 



1817.] 



and Genoa 



sal)le to every traveller of taste who 

 wishes to l>eeome acquainted with the 

 curiosities of Nature and Art, in the 

 plaees they describe. 



M. Roux has just puldislied the 

 Three Ages, (Lcs Trots Ages,) a poem, 

 in French, — on the Olympic games, the 

 amphitheatre, and chivalry. 



The higotted government of France 

 is attempting to substitute a paltry 

 work, under the respected title of Jotir- 

 nal des Savans, in place of the late scien- 

 tific and literary journal. Its pages are 

 to be filled, we suppose, by conrtltf wri- 

 ters of the same species as the W aterloo 

 poets of Britain. 



ITALY. 



A Venetian engineer has discovered 

 the means of perfecting the mariner's 

 compass. His discovery has been sub- 

 mitted to the examination of the Italian 

 Institute, which has approved of the in- 

 vention. 



Almanacks published in Italy for the 

 year 1816:— 



1. Strenne di Ediicazionc, Almanacco. 



2. II Kaccoglitore poetico. 



3. II Tedesco in Italia. 



4. L'Uomo che puo dirsi felicie in questo 

 Hondo. 



5. li fa per tutti. 



6. Un Cafe, Almanacco. 



7. La serva Ciiisiniera e credcnziera. 



8. II piccolo Bnffon della Gioventii. 



9. Proverbj e le senteiize proverhia'i. 



10. La luua in corso, del Dottore Yes- 

 taverd. 



11. II iraestro de Gi(iochi,de'BussoIi. 



12. II Pievano Arlotto. 



13. Tratteninienti Piacevoli e Morali. 



14. L'Utile Giornalo. 



15. Oraaggid al belsesso. 



16. Dono de tarsi a Madrc e Spose. Al- 

 manacco per sei Anni. 



UNITED STATES. 



Mr. John Melish, of Philadeljiliia, 

 has made arrangements for pursuing, 

 on a very extensive scale, the business 

 of publishing and selling maps, charts, 

 and geographical works. As a speci- 

 men of the general manner of his future 

 publications, he has published an excel- 

 lent map of the state of Ohio, from a late 

 actual survey, by Hough and Bourne, 

 on a scale of five miles to an inch. It 

 will be accompanied by a statistical 

 account of the state of Ohio. The fol- 

 lowing view of the present slate of the 

 local geography of the several states 

 niay be useliil to many of our readers. 



Mastachnsctlg and Maine. — Separate 

 maps of (liem were publislied a few years 

 ago, by Carlton. Tliey arc correct as far 

 «9 they^o, but not well engraved. 



an excellent map of this stale, by Carra- 

 gan, on a scale of three miles to an inch, 

 is now prepared for piibhcation. 



Comiedit:v.t.—1\\KiQ is a very fine map 

 of this state, and well engraved, from an 

 actual survey, under state .authority, iu 

 1812, by M. Warren and G. Giliet, on a 

 scale of two and a half miles to an inch. 

 Tills must not be confounded with Dame- 

 rum's map, which, though later and suffi- 

 ciently coramodious, is much inferior. 



Jlhode Island. — There is a small mai> of 

 this state — but tlicre shoidd be a better 

 one, especially of its sea-board. 



Vermont. — There aie several bad maps 

 of Veiinont. Wiiitelaw's, though not well 

 en;;rave(l, is pretty good. 



Netr-Vork. — Dewitt's large state map, 

 thougii vvell engraved and prepared under 

 the inspection of a man of great professi- 

 onal meril, was compiled, in pan, from 

 bad materials, and cannot be liiglily re- 

 commended. 



]S'cic- Jersey. —By Watson— four miles to 

 an inch. 



P(7isijh-ani(i. — By Kowell — the original 

 on a scale of five miles to an inch. Tii« 

 same reduced to ten miles to an inch. 

 Both are very good and distinctly en- 

 graved, but by no means so minute as lo 

 the physical geograpliy of the country, or 

 so magnificent in execution, as this opu- 

 lent and most important state ought to 

 possess. 



3Iurylund and Delaware. —By Griffith- 

 five miles to an inch — a good map. 



Viiginvi. — Originally surveyed by. the 

 late Bisliop P.Iadison, since improved by 

 others. Tliis is a tine six-sheet map, and 

 altogether one of the very best stale maps; 

 certainly the best of those of the gieal 

 states. 



Norlh-CuroUna. — Surveyed by Price 

 and Hotliers — verj' gooi! indeed. 



South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, and 

 Tennessee, have no good maps. Mr. Me- 

 lish states that there is a good map of 

 Georgia in MS. If so, it should be pub- 

 lished : it would well repay tlie expense. 



Ohio. — Hough and Bourne,— just jiub- 

 lished. We have not seen it, but good 

 judges speak highly of its merit. 



Louisiana. — B. Lason has published a 

 good map of the lower part of the state. 

 it is distinctly, but not handsomely, en- 

 graved. Tiie work of Messrs. Daily and 

 Bringier, will probably add much to our 

 geographical knowledije of this state. 

 Those ge:itlemen have also in manuscript 

 a good nwp, from actual survey of the 

 greater part of the state. 



There are manuscript maps of the se- 

 veral territories in the public offices of 

 government. Bradley's general nia|) pre- 

 seuis the only good gco^raj'hical view of 

 them which iias yet been published, but 

 that is by no nie;ins siifliciently particular 

 and exact for purposes of busiucss' 



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