132 Notices respecting New Books. 
Mr. Inglis recommends that all kind of timber should be cut * 
after the fall of the leaf, &c. This every judicious man will ap- 
prove of ; but the loss of the bark will be a great obstacle to its 
being put in practice. If the trees were peeled at the proper 
season for such work, and cut down in the fall of the year, or 
left standing two years to season, the loss of bark would be pre- 
vented, and the timber well seasoned for ship-building or other 
purposes, 
Chester, July 24, 1818. Tek 
XXI. Notices respecting New Books. 
Mémoires sur la Marine et les Ponts et Chaussées de France et 
d’ Angleterre; contenant deux Relations de Poyages faits par 
2 Auteur dans les Ports d’ Angleterre, d’ Ecosse et d’ Irlande, 
en 1816, 1817 ef 1818; la Description de la Jettée de Ply- 
mouth, et du Canal Calédonien, #tc.— Memoirs on the Ma- 
ritime Works and Civil Engineering of France and England, 
by M. Cu. Durin, Engineer of the French Navy.” 
[For the following interesting notice of this work of M. Dupin, we are in- 
debted tothe pen of another able French engineer, M. Bosquillon de 
Jenlie.] 
URING the fourth part of a century, war, and still more a 
suspicious policy, had kept France in total ignorance respecting 
the internal condition of Great Britain. Thus far, at least, the 
pretended blockade of the United Kingdoms had been realized. 
But in the very time (especially from.1812 to 1814) that it was. 
attempted by documents and accounts, ex officio, to represent 
England as in the last stage of exhaustion, the nation was, in 
truth, rising to an unparalleled state of splendour and wealth. | 
This wonderful effect. was more particularly exemplified in the 
sea-port towns; some of which, as Liverpool, were doubling in a 
few years a population of 50,000 souls. But not only in such 
towns as were eminently aided by their local position, but every 
where in Great Britain immense establishments and magnificent 
constructions displayed the nationai wealth and the improvement 
of the arts. One might there observe stupendous maritime works, 
superior to all the constructions which a government with the 
disposal of all the treasures of Europe had raised on the banks 
of the Seine, achieved in three years on the banks of the Thames 
by a single society of merchants. 
Since peace has reestablished an intercourse between two 
nations worthy of contending in other arts than war, various: 
French travellers have presented their countrymen with pictures 
of the manners of Great Britain, with descriptions more or less 
witty, 
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