214 Hijlory of Aflronamy for the Year i8o2. 



miflary of war in Spain, who travels by authority of the 

 Prince of Peace, accompanied by Roixas, a naturalift. He 

 will embark in England for Morocco, and will follow the 

 route of the caravans of the interior. 



Voyages a Madagnfcar, aux Indes Orientates, et a Maroc, 

 by Alexis Rochon, a celebrated altronomer and geographer, 

 have appeared in three volumes. 



The general depot of war at Paris continues its labours 

 vi^ith furprifing a6liviiv, as may be feen in the Moniteur of 

 June 25 and October 16. Generals Calon, Clark, and An- 

 dreofly, who had the direAion of it in fucceffion, have been 

 fucceeded by general Samfon. 



The map of the country between the Adige and the Adda 

 will foon be followed by maps of all Piedmont, of the Ita- 

 lian republic, and of the ifland of Elba: thofe of Bavaria, 

 Helvetia, of the Valais, and of the four departments of the 

 Rhine, are continued. More than a hundred geographical 

 engineers are employed, among whom are the celebrated 

 Nouet, Henry, and Tranchot. 



On the ill of July M. Henry quitted Bavaria, difgufted by 

 the oppofition of M. Bonne. 'l"he latter is ftill occupied with 

 the map of Bavaria ; but we loie the meafurement of a de- 

 gree, which M. Henry propofed to make. However, we 

 fliall have from the Scheldt to the A.dige, and from Breft to 

 Munich, an uninterrupted trigonometrical outline, which 

 will foon be tilled up with a complete topography. A map of 

 Egypt in fifty fheets, and thofe of the Morea and neighbour- 

 ing iflcs,are now engraving. Materials are colleAing for maps 

 of Saint Domingo and of Louifiana. 



The beautiful map des chaffes, a mafter piece of engraving, 

 of which only five ilieets were terminal-cd, will be carried 

 to thirteen. - 



A plan is even in agitation for making a new and correft 

 edition of the large map of France in 183 (beets, which had 

 l)een too much neglefted. In the mean time, thirty are re- 

 touching. 



The colleftion of manufcript charts at the depot, which 

 already amounts to 7400, daily incrcafes. C. Barbier-Du- 

 bocage, already known by his important labours, turns them 

 to the beft advantage pofiible; and the depot of war, encou- 

 raged by the government, is about to produce to geography 

 immenfe riches. 



The firft number of a topographical and militarv memo- 

 rial, edited at the general depot of war, has been publiflied 

 for November 1802. It contains a notice refpcfling the geo- 

 graphical charts; a trealife on gcodcfic operations J tables for 



reducing 



