332 Ohfervadons made diirivg a Tour in the Uynfecl States. [Nov. 1, 



the-: Globe, which recently appeared in 

 tv*o vokiines octavo. In 1796 he lejit 

 n\e curioiiB Obfcrvations on the tides of 

 la Charente, which are attended with 

 liii<;uUir circuinftanccs that I purpofe to 

 r; il;(li ill a fecoiid edition of my Trea- 

 tife o:i the Fhix and Reflux of the Sea. 



In 1787 he made experiments on the 

 rei.uajice of water, which are IHU much 

 wa)ited by architects. I gave the refiilts 

 6f tluin in Montucla's Hilloiy of Mathe- 

 iiTUics, vol. iv., p. 454, from the Report 

 ,of tl;e Commiffioners of the Academy. 

 H"! jaibhflied a Nautical Vocabulary, 

 Fi'cnch and Enslifli ; and no perfon per- 

 ha;,s ever devoted himfelf more ufefully 

 ami iiiore invariably to that p;reat art of 

 riaviiration which is the principal foiirce 

 t>f the profperity and of the grandeur of 

 /bates. 



He was brother to the deputy who 

 oblia:ed me, in 17P3, to prepare the Re- 

 publican Calendar, and who pcridicd 

 during the troubles of the Rev(ilutii)n 

 the 17tli of June, 1795. .The latter had 

 been governor to the lluthan Count Stro- 

 panoff, who refided for a long time at 

 Paris. 



On the oth of September we loft I\I. 

 Dulugue, the able pro fe (Tor of navigation 

 at Rduen, born at Dieppe the 26th of 

 December, 17'i9, the author of numC' 

 rous works and obfervations. 



M. Lefage, who dieri at Gene\a, 

 made celeflial phyhcs the object of his 

 fludy. An Account of his life has been 

 viiiten by Pierre Prevoft. His Newto- 

 siaii Lucretius, on the caufe of univerfal 

 gravity, is a curious w(jrk, which I liave 

 mentioned in my Aftronomy, art. 3530. 



Victor Comeiras, decealed in the 

 tnonth of October, publiilied the liiftory 

 of Ancient Aftronomy by Bailly, in 2 

 vols, ovo., and very cominendably fixed 

 the price of tiiat work within the rench 

 of the majority of readers. 



M. Anigo, Secretary to the Obferva- 

 tory, devotes himlelf entirely to aftronor. 

 my, and affords us new hopes of retriev- 

 jnsr otu- lofles. 



Ifaac Lalande, the third of the name, 

 lias begun to dire6t his attention to allro- 

 romy. He makes calculations and obr 

 fervations. The firft ecliple which he 

 calculated enabled us to dcteft an error 

 of a quarter of an hour in the calculation 

 of the next eclipfc. I gave him at the 

 font the name of liaac, that Ifaac New- 

 ton might be his true patron, and might 

 bo ever prefent to hi» memory. 



M. Cont.S who died the 6th of De- 

 cember, agoj 50j w£^s not j.>rofc!li;dlY an 



allronomer ; but his labours for the im- 

 provement of aeroltatics juftify the men- 

 tion of his lofs, which muft be feverely 

 felt by the arts and fciences, that is, by 

 mankind. 



For the Moyitlily Magazine. 

 OBSERVATIONS made during a tour. 

 through the united states of Ame- 

 rica. — KO. XI. 



ALTHOUGH I fear the fnail-like 

 pace with which I proceed on my 

 journey may have tired Ibme of your 

 readers, yet I arn fo diifatistied with muft 

 of the accounts publilhed in Great Hri- 

 tain relative to the United States, I IhaU 

 continue my minute relations. 



Until the peace concluded by General 

 Wayne in the year 1795^ the Alleghany 

 river was the boundary between the 

 I'^nited States and various tribes of In- 

 dian';, whofe former hoftilities had been 

 marked by that violence and outrage 

 which ever attends favn<;e warfaie. But 

 in that year they ceded to the United 

 States all the country caft of the Caya- 

 hoga river, at v\ liofe mouth is iituate the 

 fite of the future city of Cleveland ; from 

 thence, by a line drawn between that 

 river and the Tufcama branch of the 

 JMullvinginn, and from tlience to Fort 

 Lawrence, th.e line now proceeds wcft- 

 erly to the portage between the Miami 

 of the lake and the river of the fame 

 name, which eirters the Ohio ; from 

 thence extending to Fort Recovery, 

 (where the Indians defeated General 

 Sinclair,) on a branch of the Wabafh ; 

 and finally proceeds S.W. in a direct line 

 to tlie C)]iio, oppolite Kentucky river.*,^— 

 The Indians alfo ceded to the citizens of 

 the United States the important privi., 

 leges of doffing all the rivers on the 

 other fide of the Cayahoga which empty 

 into Lake Erie, and the ufe of all tiie 

 harbours on the borders thereof. For 

 tliefe confidcrations the United State* 

 gave to the dilfcrent tribes 20,000 dol- 

 lars, and fettled 9,000 dollars to be paid 

 to themfelves and their defcendants an- 

 nually for ever. 



It was on the morning of the 29th of 

 April that we crofl'ed the AUechany ri- 

 ver in a ferry-boat, a;id entered a coun- 

 try which ten years back was an entire 

 wildernefs. Here I expetled to find that 

 fort of fociety which ha« been fo amuf^ 

 iiigly detailed by writers, and that, if the 



* This extenfive tracl is accurately laid 

 down In Mr, Bndlsy's JIip of the United 



States. 



