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- These altogether compelled his return to England, and alone tal 
vented -him from attaining the highest military stations. 
~ Retired to private life, the whole energies of his mind were dic 
to scientific and literary pursuits... We have, founded on his 
exertions in India: An’ Atlas of Bengal.—A_ Map -of the Mogul 
' Empire. Marches of the Army in India.—A Map of the Peninsula. 
_ But the mental powers of Major Rennell were far from being con- 
fined to one region of the world. 
We have from his pen a.work on the Geography of Africa. - And 
with a vigor of intellect that may w I call to our recollection the 
' greatest of the Roman censors, he acquired . at an advanced age a 
competent knowledge-of Greek for consulting the early writers in 
that language, and gave to the world, The Geographical System of 
» Herodotus, including the Expedition of Darius Hystaspes-to Scythia; 
_ The Site of Babylon ; ; The Temple of Jupiter Ammon}; The Per- 
iplus of Africa, &e. 5 ‘and A Dissertation on the Locality of Troy. 
The attention of this great investigator of every thing connected 
with the surface of our globe, extended: itself from mountains ‘and 
; em to the waters of the ocean; and produced a most curious in- 
igation of the currents cvoriined in the Atlantic, and of accumu- 
lations caused by certain winds in the English Channel. — 
_And lastly, I would mention a very ingenious mode of ascertaining : 
hees,.-and ‘connecting with their bearings the actual localities of 
“Spots in the Great Desert, by noting the: average rate at which cam- 
_ els travel over those worlds of sand. 
This is a very. imperfect catalogue of the ore publclig: by Ma- 
jor Rennell ; ; and Iam happy to add that several more exist In man- 
- Uscript, destined, we may hope, at no distant time, to appear. 
Major Rennell has been honored by the Copley medal from this 
Society ; ; by the gold medal from ‘the Royal Society of Literature’; 
Was a corresponding member of the Institute of France ; and a 
member of various other societies. 
Our regret for such a man, exerting his intellectual powers ie 
‘© much energy and. to such useful purposes, throughout the course » 
ofa long life, and up to his eighty-eighth year, must always be strong 
and sincere; but we console ourselves with the reflection that he had 
attained the utmost ordinary limit of human life, amidst the respect 
and €steem of all-who knew-him, and that, his memory is revered. 
32 Mr. Cuenevrx was undoubtedly a man of considerable ability, 
acquirement dnd industry. We have from him seven different com- 
— to the Philosophical Transactions : 
