228 Foreign Literature. 
The Tonian Academy will no doubt publish more completé. 
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A sixth volume has appeared at Frankfort of Leonhard’s 
Manual of Mineralogy, embellished with geological maps 
and drawings. Among the principal articles contained in 
the volume are some mineralogical observations made by 
M. Schultz during a journey to the mountain des Géans 
in Siberia in 1802 and 1803: an explanation of the new 
‘ systems of mineralogy of Werner and Tondi, the analysis, 
of two varietics of porous stones, and a singular variety 
of granite found in Saxony. The volume is terminated by 
an account of the principal works which have appeared: 
during 1812 on mineralogy; and miscellaneous extracts, 
with the editor’s correspondence. 
The booksellers Artaria, Belutti and Company of Milan. 
have recently published a most magnificent work entitled: 
*¢ Storia Naturale delle Simie,’’%. e. Natural History of 
the Ape. The drawings by Jacob, engraved by Radaz, re- 
present an individual of each species, with a description in. 
Italian, and a German and French translation. . The work is: 
arranged according to the discoveries and systems of Buffon, 
Cuvier, Geoffroy, D’Aubentoif, Lacepede, La Treille, and 
Audibert, with observations on the manners, dispositions,, 
and food of these animals, with the various methods of 
catching them, and the use of their flesh in medicine. There: 
are nearly 100 plates. 
' Professor Wedel-Simonsen of Copenhagen has. in the 
press a work upon the Crusades and Pilgrimages undertaken. 
by the Scandinavians of the middle age. 
The Royal Society of Norway has. published: at Copen-: 
hagen the first three volumes of Historical and Philosophi-, | 
eal Memoirs, by the various Members of that learned body.) ° 
Mr. William Humboldt, brother to the Baron of that 
name, has announced a work upon the language and man-. 
ners of the people called Basques—*‘ The first section of 
this work,” according to the author, “ will contain the ob-. 
servations which I took occasion to make, as well in the, 
Spanish as in the French part of that-country. I shalk 
give an account of the country, and of its small but in-. 
teresting population. This sketch will be necessary for the 
elucidation of the language, which is intimately onaleenae 
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