140 Analyses of Books. [Fes. 
ArTICLE XII. 
ANALYSES or Books. 
Georgii Wahlenberg, Med. Doc. et Botanices Demonstrat. in R. 
Acad. Upsal. R. Acad. Scient. Stockholm Membr. Ord. Flora 
Carpatorum Principalium exhibens Plantas in Montilus Carpaticis 
inter Flumina Waagum et Dunajetz eorumque ramos Arvam et 
Popradum crescentes, cut preemittiiur Tractatus de Altitudine, 
Vegetatione, Temperatura et Meteoris horum Montium in Genere. 
Gottinge, impensis Vandenhdek et Ruprecht. 1814. 
WE are indebted to Dr. Wahlenberg for a most interesting ac- 
count of the climate and vegetation of Lapland, and an equally 
curious dissertation on the mountains of Switzerland. ‘The present 
work is no less entitled to our attention. The Carpathian mountains 
constitute an elevated chain at a great distance from the sea, and 
form the boundary between the flat countries of Poland and Hun- 
gary. Hence it is probable that they have considerable influence on 
the meteorological phenomena of Europe. They are not so high 
as the Alps of Switzerland and Scandinavia; but their central 
situation give them no less a claim to our attention. Hitherto the 
heights, the structure, and the vegetation of these mountains, have 
been very imperfectly known; but Dr. Wahlenberg has in a great 
measure filled up the gap which existed by the singular industry 
with which he examined these mountains. He went to Vienna in 
May, 1813; thence, supplied with the proper letters, he went to 
the neighbourhood of the Carpathian mountains, and ascended the 
Fatra, the furthest west of them, on June 11. He continued ex- 
ploring the different mountains till Aug. 24, when a violent inun- 
dation laid the country under water, and confined him at Kesmark 
till Sept. 2. On Sept. 5, he renewed his excursions into the moun- 
tains. On Sept. 11, the inundations were repeated, and the bridges 
again destroyed ; but he was able to renew his labours on Sept. 14, 
and to continue them till Oct. 17, when the country was so com- 
pletely covered with snow that all hopes of further investigation 
were at an end. 
On this he went to Buda, in order to determine from the baro- 
metrical observations kept there, the height of the observatory above 
the sea, conceiving that the heights of the Carpathian mountains 
could be determined more accurately by a comparison of the heights 
of the barometer which he observed with corresponding ones at 
Buda, than by a comparison with observations made at a greater 
distance ; for he has shown by tables that the variations of the 
barometer on the Carpathians correspond better with those made at 
Buda than at Vienna, which is further distant. He then went to 
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