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The fir volume only ef this work 
has as yet been publithed, but from the 
reception it has experienced, there can 
be no doubt, but the whole will be fpeed- 
ily fent to the prefs. ; 
Principes de Minéralogie, par F. P. Van-- 
berchem-Bertbout, Chef de la Divifion des 
Mine:, & Henri Stuve, Profefeur ad’ A jloire 
Naturelle a Laufanne, 8vo. 200 p. with 
plates, price, at Paris, 7 livres. 
~ The neceffity of a new idiom, for ex- 
preffing the new ideas that arife in the 
arts and f{ciences, is felr-evident. Lin- 
neus obtained this for natural hiftory ; 
Lavoifier and Fourcroy attempted the 
fame,*with fuccefs, in botany, and Vicg 
@’Azyr is following their foot-fteps, fo 
far as refpeéts anatomy. Wernerhas given 
a nomenclature to mineralogy, which hes 
been adopted throughout Germany, and 
Berthout and Stuve, the difciples of this 
great mafter, here prefent the French 
nation with a fyfiematic vocabulary or 
that language. 
Voyage dans la ci-devani Haute S Bafe 
Anvergne, aujjurd’ pu: Departement du Puy- 
de-Dome, du Cantal, & Partie de celui de 
Haute Loire. Par le Citeyen Legrand. 
Linneus was the firft to ridicule the 
' folly of diftant voyages into other coun# 
tries, before the traveiler had become ac- 
guainted with his own; and he joined 
example to precept, by, viliting Lapland, 
Gothland, Oeland, and Scania. (See Iver 
Oclandicum, Gotblandicum, in Scanid, flora 
Laponica.} The northern governments 
adopted the hint, and to their exertions 
on this oecafion, we are indebted for the 
Jabours of the two: Ginelins, Steller, 
Pallas, Lepechin, Gueldenftaedt, Georgi, 
Falck, Ryt{chkoif, the two Fabricius, &c. 
Legrand has difcovered a red argilla- 
eeous earth, in Auvergne, admirably 
adapted for the pottery, and of fo fine 
x grain, as to rival the Etrufcan yafes of 
antiquity. 
At a little place, called /a Youlte, a rich 
mine of iron ore has been lately explored; 
and a curious defcription is here given cf 
the mineral pitch with which the country 
near Clermont abounds, and whence it 
Feceives its name of Puy de la Pege (Puy 
de la Porx). The author jaments that 
foreigners fhould profit by the indolente 
of the French, and ftates that the Au- 
ftrians carry away mufket-flints from 
Berry, and that the Dutch import pipe- 
clay, wood, end dye-ttufts, from the de- 
partment of the Lower Seine, which they 
afterwards fell, in a manufactured ftate, 
tothe natives. We learn alfo, that the 
Prefent State of French Literature 
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Spaniards, before the prefent war, were 
accuftomed to repair yearly to Auvergne, 
in order to fearch for amethyfts. ; 
Legrand isthe author of ‘Des Fabhaux,” 
and ‘* De la Vie privée des Francois.” 
Voyage Pittorefque, & Navigation exécutée 
fur une Partie du Rhone. Par T. C.G. 
This work contains a projeét for render- 
ing the Rhone navigable, from the Lake 
of Geneva,'to the fea. The prefent jour- 
ney was undertaken at the expence of an 
individual, whofe difinterefted labours 
have acquired him the notice of the 
French legiflature. 
LD’ Art Défenfif fupZricur a P Offenfif, Se. 
par Marc- Rene Montalembert, ancien Offs- 
éler-gencral; 10 vol. ato. 
This work, which is intended as a 
Military Encyclopedia, contains a pro- 
digious, number of plans and papers 
adapted to the ufe of the military engi- 
neer. General Montalembert oppofes 
the fyftem of baftions, which, according 
‘to him, is the caufe why fortified places 
make fo little refiftance. Could he but 
realize the projeét of rendering the aré 
of defence Luperior to that of attack, there 
would be-an end ef all offenfive opera- 
tions ;. invafions would ceafe, and we 
fhould beheld the fcheme of the be- 
nevolent Abbe de St. Pierre, in a great 
meafure, realized! 
Volney, the celebrated author of Les 
Ruines, has publifhed : 
1. Queftions d'Economie Politique, par le 
Citoyen FVolney, Profeffeur a P Ecole Nor- 
male, Se. 
2. Analyze du Cours d Hiftotre; and, 
3. 4 Work for facilitating the Knowledge 
of Eafiera Literature. 
The members of the commiffion of arts 
and fciences, with the army of the Sambre 
and Menfe, have favoured the public 
with a detailed account ef the books, 
cabinets of curiofities, antiquities, and 
alfo the zames of the curious planis, they 
have put in requifition, in the conquered 
countries. 
Lacepede, the pupil of Buffon, has 
printed the introduétion to the courfe of 
Ichthyology, delivered by him in the gallery 
of the Mufeum of Natural Hiftory. 
The Commiflary Heritier has fent 
the following fimple receipt, for preferv- 
ing potatoes throughout the whole year, 
to the Lyceum . 
A proper veflel being placed on the 
fire, 
