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Kti'uction in mathematics and philosopliy. 

 Mr. Farey also studied drawing and survey- 

 ing, and ^vas recommended to the notice of 

 the celebrated Mr. Smeaton. 



Mr. Farey had the j^ood fortune to become 

 known to tlie late Duke of Bedford, and to 

 acquire the confidence of that nobleman. 

 In 1792 his Grace ajjpointcd Mr. Farcy 

 to the agency of liis Bcdfordsliire estates. 

 In consequence, he went to reside at Wo- 

 burn, and continued there till the lamented 

 death of his patron in 1802. 



In the conduct of the Duke's affairs, Mr. 

 Farey had a wide field for the exercise of 

 his talents, and he prosecuted the ideas of 

 his noble employer with so much assiduity, 

 that he succeeded fully in establishing a 

 veiy improved system of a^Miculture, of 

 wliich tlie Duke had sketched the outlines 

 with great judgment, from a mature con- 

 sideration of ail the observations he had 

 made, during his tour through Europe, as 

 f well as in Britain. 



In 1809 and 1810, Mr. Farey made a 

 survey of Derbyshire for the Board of 

 Agriculture, and his report contains a 

 statement of the principles which he follow- 



ed in mineral surveying. lie availed liim- 

 self of every opportunity of augmenting his 

 stock of knowledge on the nature and 

 order of the strata throughout Britain, and 

 collected innuraomljle specimens to esta- 

 blish their identity in different places. A 

 great part of his time was spent in collect- 

 ing his observations and in forming maps 

 and sections from them to determine the 

 order and position (if the strata in every 

 place which he had visited. He intended 

 to publish the results, but their completion 

 was ])rcvented by an attack of apoplexy, 

 which terminated his useful life, at his 

 house in llowland-street. He married 

 early in life, and had a numerous family. 



I\Ir. Faiey was a man of most laborious 

 research, and of very retired habits ; rarely 

 mixing in society, but ])ursuing his studies 

 with incessant application, impelled by a 

 thirst for knowledge rather than by the 

 desire of wealth or fame. The manuscripts 

 to which he devoted so many years, con- 

 tain a mass of information which would 

 afford materials for some valuable publica- 

 tions. 



WORKS IN THE PRESS, AND NEW PUBLICATION.S. 



WORKS IN THE PRESS. 



A new and improved edition of Morris's 

 Life of the Rev. Andrew Fuller, with an 

 Appendix, containing some pieces, never 

 before printed. 



A brief descriptive History of Holland 

 is preparing for the press, in letters from 

 Grandfather to Marianne, during an e.wur- 

 sion in the summer of 1819. 



It may be recollected by our readers, that 

 the late Mr. Sharp announced a line en- 

 graving of Dr. Edward Jenner, as a com- 

 panion to his celebrated ))ortniit of Dr. 

 John Hunter.. After Mr. Sharp's decease, 

 this plate was placed in the hands of Mr. 

 Shelton, by whom it has been completed, 

 and impressions from it are now ready for 

 ilelivery. 



Mr. Ackermaim has also in readiness for 

 publication a portrait of Sir Humphry Davy, 

 engraved by Worthington. 



M. C'lmel, byokseller of Paris, has an- 

 nounced his intention of publishing a collec- 

 tion of engravings, from the full-length por- 

 traits of celebrated personages of the present 

 time, painted by Gerard, first painter to the 

 King of France. 



Mr. Alexander Barclay is printing a 



Practical View of the Present State of 



Slavery in the West- Indies ; or, an Esami- 



j nation of Mr. Stephen's " Slaverj' of the 



I British West- India Colonies." 



i Sir W. Scott's Life of Dryden is among 



the. last translations into French. Moore's 



Life of Sheridan is announced. 



A complete edition of Chateaubriand's 

 Works, in 2j vols., including much new 

 matter, is talked of in Paris. 



A manuscript has, it is stated, been re- 

 cently found in the castle of Peguct, Canton 

 dc Vaud, which contains a particular account 

 of the wars between the Swiss and Savoy- 

 ards, and the campaigns of Henry IV. of 

 Savoy. 



Anna Boleyn, a dramatic poem, by tlie 

 Rev. H. H. Milman, is nearly ready. 



Capt. King announces for publication, 

 Voyages of Discoveiy, undertaken to com- 

 plete the Siu-vey of the Western Coast of 

 New Holland, between the years 1817 and 

 1822. In two vols. 8vo. 



There is announced, a Short Sketch of 

 the Province of Upper Canada, for the in- 

 formation of the labouring poor through- 

 out England. To wliich is prefixed. 

 Thoughts on Colonization, addressed to 

 the labouring poor, the clergy, the se- 

 lect vestries, and overseers of the poor, 

 and other persons interested in the 

 administration of parish relief, in the 

 different parishes in England. By Henry 

 John Boulton, Esq., his Majesty's solici- 

 tor-general of the province of Upper Ca- 

 nada. 



A German account of the works of the 

 brothers Van Eyck has been translated by 

 M. de Bast, the secretary of the Society of 

 Fine Arts at Ghent, and published with 

 notes. It relates principally to their master- 

 piece (from the Apocalypse) in the cathe- 



