Accounts of Foreign Puhlicationi. 45; 



Citizen Desfontalnes read a memoir on the cultivation of fpices In Guiana. Three hun- 

 dred exotic trees were carried thither by C. Martin ; and it appeared that the clove, among 

 otiiers, afforded a very confiderable produft. 



Citizen Dupont de Namours read a memoir on the fociability and morality of the dog', 

 the fox, and the wolf. The title excited the public attention ; and the effefts of the dif- 

 courfey which was original, philofophical, and lively, was fiich that it gained much applaufe. 



ACCOUNTS OF FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS. 



Befchrc'ihung e'uur Reife, £3"V. or Travels in Germany and Switzerland in the Year 

 1781, with Obfervations on the Sciences, Induftry, Religion and Manners. By Fredericic 

 Nicolai. Vol. XI. and XII. Berlin and Stettin, 1796, in oftavo. 



Nicolai publifiied the firft volumes of his Travels in 1783, at that time offered for fub- 

 fcription, and he has fince brought them out two volumes at a time. The 9th and lotli 

 appeared in 1795. This work is greatly eflicemed in Germany. The title of Travels, 

 though the author really pafled through the countries he defcribes, is, properly fpeaking, no 

 more than a vehicle for numerous obfervations on manners, population, induftry, and 

 fcience. Particular differtations on various objects are Inferted. Thus the xith volume con- 

 tains diiTertations on the Celts, the Suabians, the Celtic language, &c. ; and the xiith, ob- 

 fervations of much Importance on certain geographical denominations, which Pliny, Ptcf- 

 lomy, and others, give to places fituated at the Black Forcft and in Helvetia. It muft not 

 be concluded that this account contains little novelty becaufe the Travels publiflied by the 

 author were made in 1781. To the recital of his a£lual travels Nicolai has added a work 

 of the clofetj perhaps much too extended, which confifts in a numerous coUedlion of notes 

 and tables relative to ftatlflics. Some are dated in the year 1796. 



The works of Nicolai are more particularly efteemed in Germany, in refpect to the ob- 

 jeiSls of political oeconomy they contain. 



Ucher die Kiiltiir-verhUliniJfe, fe'r. or An Effay on the comparative Culture of Land in the 

 various States of Europe ; in which an Attempt is made to determine, by the Magnitude ami 

 Population of the feveral States, the Degree of Cultivation of the European Dominions. 

 With fixteen large Tables, exhibiting the Surface and Population of the European States. 

 By Aug. Fred. Guil. Crome. Leipfick, 1792; i vol. oftavo ; 398 pages of text, and 

 112 of additions. 



Siatijiiche Uebcrfidit, i^c. A Statiftical View of the Provinces of the Ruffian Empire, wiih 

 r.egard to the comparative Cultivation of the Land. By H. Storch. Rig.i, 1795 ; Hart- 

 knock; I vol. fmall folio, 131 pages. 



Geographij'ch-Slatijiiche Tahelleii ; Tables of the Statiftical Geography of Switzerland. By 

 II. K. Zurich, 1795 ; Ziegler and Sons; i vol. fmall folio ; feven tables. 



Amialen ihr Slantskriiftc von Eitropa. Annals of the Powers of the feveral States of Eu- 

 rope confidcred, with regard to the prefent State of Natural Philofophy, Commerce, Science, 

 and Political Relation. The whole drawn up in the Form of Tables. By Ad. Frid. Randcl. 

 Berlin, 1792; Frid. Vicwcg; i vol. fmall folio. 



Der Pclynomifche Lehrfiitz, i^c. Principles of tlic Doflrine of Polynomials,,, the 



mofl Intcrefting Problem. of Analytical Science, with fome other Theorems relating thereto, 



explained and developed, by Tetens, Kluegd, Kranip, Pfaff, and Hiiulcnburg. The 



2 fmallcv. 



