ANOMALOUS ARTS and SCIENCES. 379 



the ftore*, arms, amunition, and other matters 

 recefiary to a fhip , and with which the maga- 

 zines and yards belonging to the admiralty 

 ought to be provided. 2. Naval architecture; 

 which teaches the method of conftrucling all 

 forts of veffels or (hips. 3. Steerage, or the 

 -f conducting a vefiel on the feu. And 4. 

 The art of evolutions, which fnews the method 

 of commanding a number of (hips together, as 

 fquadrons or fleers. We do not know of any 

 complete fyftem, that treats of all thefe four 

 parts together, but there are a great number 

 that treat of them feparately. 



IV. (3.) Commerce \ which comprehends vaft 

 knowledge, and forms a fcience that is very 

 intricate, and highly important. Many i 



\1 authors have endeavoured to reduce it to 

 a fyftem, and have wrote very inftruftive trea- 

 tifes relative to it. The grand hiftorical and 

 political treafury of the flourifhing commerce of 

 the Dutch is a very curious work ; the firfl 

 chapter contains an interesting hiftory of the 

 commerce of all Europe. The works of M. 

 Savary, efpecially his great dictionary ; the 

 elements of commerce; the political efiay on 

 com: by the late M. Melon: and many 



other works which are daily appearing in the 

 com v.ill greatly facilitate the 



thefe mutvrs. This fcience, 

 however, makes no part oi Erudition, pro; 

 fo called. 



V. (4.) Coining^ 



