Io8 Voyage* and Travels. 



of naphtha. One of thefe hums continually, like the foU 

 fa terra at Naples. 



Some clays before a flaming meteor rofe from the earth, 

 between Fey and Veron, three leagues to the fouth of Metz. 

 Its difappearance was followed by a detonation which (hook, 

 the almofphere to a confiderable diftance around. 



VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 



CITIZEN OLIVIER, who has been travelling through 

 Fcriia by orders of the French government, writes from 

 Conftantinople, dated Frimaire the 18th laft, that he has 

 brought from Perfia, Babylon, the deferts of Arabia, the 

 environs of Aleppo, Cyprus, the mountains of Caramania 

 and Alia Minor, more than two hundred feeds in good pre- 

 ferratkmj many medals of gold, fiber, and bronze, Roman, 

 Greek and Parthian; fome mummies of children, and of 

 the facred birds of the Egyptians ; fome intercfting manu- 

 fcripts, &c. Proceeding then to the aclual fituation of 

 Turkey, he concludes, from its depopulation ; the great dimi- 

 nution of its revenues ; the deferted ftate of its plains, 

 which daily increafes, by the oppreffion and impunity of the 

 Pachas; the revolts of the latter; the mutinies and infub- 

 ordination of the Janiflaries, that this extenfive empire is 

 approaching to a hidden fall. 



A gentleman of the name of Brown, who refided feven 

 years in Abyflinia, is now in Egypt. He is fu'sd to have 

 proceeded much farther weft than Mr. Brace, with whom 

 he agrees in moft points : he intends to publifh an account 

 of his travels, which no doubt will afford much information 

 as well as amufement. 



Frederick Hornernan, the only fort of a clergyman's widow 



at Tlikldheim, a young man of an athletic conftitution, a 



great 1 nu rhrmical genius, poffbffed of considerable knowledge 



and firmnds of character, impelled with an infuperable iin- 



puli'e to a journey of difcovcry in Africa, is now on his way 



from Cairo over Cafchna to Tombuclu. He travels at the 



expence of the African Aubciation. 



BOTANY, 



