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132 Drs Hoppe and Hornschueh’s Tour to the Coast of the 
cious system of nominal privileges, which has ruined so many 
ingenious and enterprising individuals. 
O. 
Aiit. XXII . — Journal of a Tour to the Coast of the Adriatic 
Sea , and to the Mountains of Carniola, Carinthia , Tyrol , 
Saltzburg , and Bohemia , undertaken chiefly with a view to 
the Botany and Entomology of those countries. By Dr Da- 
vid Henry Hoppe and Dr Henry Hornschuch. Con- 
taining the Excursion from the Fichtelberg to Istria. — Ratis- 
bon 1818. 
We were favoured by the authors of these interesting tra- 
vels, with a copy of their first Volume, as soon as it w r as pub- 
lished. A translation of it into English was prepared, and 
we only waited for the two other volumes, which the travel- 
lers had promised, before offering the whole to the natura- 
lists of our own country, in a language more familiar to them 
than that in which the original had appeared. In this agree- 
able expectation we have been disappointed ; the numerous 
avocations of the authors preventing them, as we have late- 
ly learned, from continuing at present their publication. Much 
as we regret this circumstance, it is yet a satisfaction to 
know that Natural History continues to be the object of their 
pursuit, and that their whole time is dedicated to the furthe- 
rance of their separate and favourite branches of it. 
In order that what is already published of these Travels may 
not be wholly lost to the British naturalist, we shall in this, and 
some of the succeeding parts of our Journal, devote a portion 
of its pages to an account of its details. The scientific infor- 
mation which it contains will instruct, while the narrative of the 
excursion, written with a degree of zeal and animation that, to 
to be fully felt, must be perused in the original language, and 
the scenes of which are laid in a country very little known to 
British tourists, will excite, we cannot but think, a considerable 
degree of interest in our readers. 
Of the travellers themselves, it may be sufficient to observe, 
that they are advantageously known to the scientific world, by 
