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wolves. Tlie expedition passed several 
other rapids and falls, along a fiat, 
woody, and swampy country, across 
five miles of which no eye could see. 
After a tedious journey of forty-six days, 
(the dangers and distresses of which 
rather increased than diminished as 
they advanced,) the expedition arrived 
at Cumberland, a post situated on the 
hanks of a beautiful lake, and stockaded 
against incursions of savages, the at¬ 
tacks of wolves and bears, and the more 
ferocious assaults of rival traders. Here 
the winter of 1819 was passed. In June 
1S20 they set forward in canoes manned 
by Canadians. On the 29 th of July they 
arrived at the north side of Slave 
Lake. A party of Copper Indians were 
engaged to accompany them, and they 
commenced the work of discovery. On 
the 1st of Sept, they reached the banks 
of the Copper Mine River, in lat. 55. 
15. N., long. 113. W., a magnificent 
body of water two miles wide. They 
had penetrated into a countiy destitute 
of wood, and the men were exhausted 
with the labours of carrying canoes, 
cargoes, &c. amounting to three tons, 
from lake to lake. Their broken spirits 
were revived by success ; but the season 
was too far advanced to make farther 
progress. They returned to a small 
wood of pines, and erected their winter 
residence of mud and timber, which 
they named Fort Enterprise. By In¬ 
dian report this river runs into the 
Northern Sea, in west longitude 110, 
and in lat. /2. In June, 1821, they 
proposed to re-embark, and it was sup¬ 
posed that the river would enable them 
to reach the sea in a fortnight. 
Mr. J. R. Bryce is printing a se¬ 
cond edition of the Elements of Latin 
Prosody, with considerable improve¬ 
ments. The first edition of this work, 
published last year, has obtained the 
approbation of some of the most dis¬ 
tinguished scholars and teachers of the 
day. 
Dr. Wilson Philip has just ready 
for publication, a second edition of his 
Treatise on Indigestion, and some ad¬ 
ditional observations. 
A novel, called the Village Coquette, 
is printing, in three volumes, 12mo, 
by the author of 44 Such is the World.” 
Mr. Mackenzie, author of the 
Thousand Experiments, a volume which 
has acquired for its author a great re¬ 
putation among thp European and 
American chemists, is preparing First 
Lines of the Science of Chemistry, for 
the use of Students, with engravings. 
Blighted Ambition: or, the Rise and 
Fall of the Earl of Somerset; an His¬ 
torical Romance, by Maurice Bran tome, 
will soon be published in three volumes, 
I2mo. 
On the 1st of February will be pub¬ 
lished, handsomely printed, in royal 
quarto, and dedicated, by permission,, 
to his Majesty, a Celestial Atia.s, com¬ 
prising projections of the planispheres, 
and particular constructions of the 
Signs of the Zodiac, and the Constel¬ 
lations in each hemisphere, exactly as 
they appear in the heavens, in a series 
of thirty beautifully engraved maps, 
which are illustrated by scientific de¬ 
scriptions of their contents, and by 
catalogues of the stars, from the first 
to the sixth magnitude, by Alex¬ 
ander Jamieson, A.M. 
Mr. Robert Stevens, of Lloyds’, 
is about to put to press a fourth, and 
improved edition of his Essay or 
Average, and on other subjects con¬ 
nected with the contract of Marine 
Insurance, to which will he added the 
practice and law of mercantile arbi¬ 
trations. It is not his intention to 
proceed at present with his proposed 
work on the Practice of Lloyds’. 
The Obelisk of red granite, brought 
home in the Despatch, for Mr. Bankes, 
jun. which had previously been re¬ 
moved down the Nile, from the island 
of Fhiloe, on the borders of Nubia, 
was safely unshipped last week at Dept¬ 
ford, and is now lying on the deck of 
the sheer-hulk there, till it be ready to 
he removed to Mr. Bankes’s seat in 
Dorsetshire. It is the first ever brought 
to England. Artists have already been 
making drawings from it, for the pur¬ 
pose of engraving; it being supposed 
that it may very probably furnish a 
key to the interpretation of the hiero¬ 
glyph ical characters ; since the Greek, 
upon the pedestal, which records its 
first erection under Ptolemy and Cleo- 
patia, is very probably a translation of 
the hieroglyphics with which all the 
four sides of the obelisk itself are richly 
covered. 
A Mother’s Portrait, sketched soon 
after her decease, for the study of her 
children, by their surviving parent, is 
preparing for publication. 
Proofs and Illustrations of the Prin¬ 
ciples of Population, by Mr. Francis 
Place, are preparing for publication; 
and the known talents of the writer 
may be expected to set at rest many 
disputed and idle questions on this 
subject. 
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