604 Retrofpee of Domeftic Literature.—T opography and Antiquities. 
of the inhabitants of Da Lagao Bay, and 
a vocabulary of the language. 
*¢ Journal of a Route to Nagpore, by 
the Way of Cuttae, Burrofumber, and 
the Southern Bunjare Ghaut, in the Year 
3790, tvith an Account of Nagpore, and 
a Journal fiom that Place to Benares by 
the Soohagee Pals, by Danigt Ropin- 
‘son Leckie, efq. illuftrated with a 
Map.” The writer of this journal accom- 
panied the late Mr. Forfter on his em- 
bafly to Nagpore; it was kept by the 
author when very young, and, as it ap- 
pears from the advertifement to the 
volume, was intended only for the perufal 
of his brother, who has been induced to 
publith it, from the confideration that, as 
the route lay througha part of Hindiftan 
left blank in Major Rennel’s map, and 
Tittle known to Europeans, the informa- 
tion which it furnifhes might, in fome 
meafure, fill up the chafm. This volume 
will, unqueftionably, be ferviceable in 
this refpeét, and will, moreover, be emi- 
nently ufeful to thofe who traverfe the 
country defcribed by the author. 
Mr. Jonnsron has tranflated from 
the German “ A Voyage to the Eatt 
Indies by Fra Paolino daSan Bartolomeo; 
with Notes and Illuftrations by Dr. 
RyEeINHOLD Forster.” Fra Paolino, 
2 bare-footed Carmelite, refided thirteen 
years in diftriéts of India little frequented 
by Europeans. The prefent work con- 
tains an account of the manners and 
cuftoms of the natives, and affords a geo- 
graphical defcription of the country, 
which, though by no means free from 
errors, is, on the whole, valuable. 
We are indebted to Mr. BINGLEY 
for the publication of his ‘© Tour round 
‘North Wales in the Summer of 1798.” 
It is one of the moft ufeful journals that 
have appeared, The author has collected 
a great deal of information in this excur- 
fion, and has imparted it very liberally to 
the readers of his volumes. We are not 
fatigued with monotonous and laboured 
defcripticns of the fcenery of the coun- 
try : it is prudently paffed by, unlefs the 
profpect is uncommonly firiking, and then 
Mr. B. by the minutenefs and particular- 
ity of his defeription, has prefented a 
picture to us without glare, and without 
confufion. Mr. Bingley travelled as a 
naturalift and philofopher, and his bota- 
nical enquiries were purfued with unre- 
mitting ardour and fuccefs, for he has 
given an account of the habitudes of above 
400 of the more rare native plants. “The 
manners, cuftoms, and fuperflition, of the 
Welhh, are illuftrated by a variety of little 
anecdotes and hiftories; and the work 
is, on the whole, one of the mot amufing 
and inftruéctive that we have read for 
fome time. 
TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITYES. 
That indefatigable antiquarian, Mr. 
NicHOLs, has completed the firft part of 
the third volume of the “ Hiftory and 
Antiquities of the County of Leicefter.” 
Of the prefent part we can only fay, that 
it is in every refpeét equal, and in fome 
fuperior, to the former: the author’s in- 
veftigations are equally diligent and mi- 
nute; his materials are feleéted with 
equal judgment; and Mr. Nichol’s reco- 
very of the long-fought volume of Burton’s 
Hiftory of Leicefterfhire (which had been 
copioufly interleaved and enlarged, with 
various marginal notes, for a fecond edi- 
tion), and of a long fecond preface, hasma- 
terially enriched the prefent volume. Bur- 
ton’s preface is here given at large, with all 
his intended prolegomena; “ all his ad- 
ditions alfo to the hundreds of Tremland, 
Gaftre, and Eaft Gofcote, will be found 
either in their proper places, or at the 
end of the prefent volume.”” A work of 
more various and more curious informa- 
tiun than the prefent fcarcely ever made 
its appearance: the antiquarian, the 
topographer, the genealogift, the biogra- 
pher, and the naturalift, will each find 
inftruétion andamufement.. 
By fome accident we have too long 
omitted to notice, that Mr. King has 
publifhed the firft volume of ‘* Muni- 
menta Antiqua; or, Obfervations on 
Ancient Caftles : including Remarks on 
the whole Progrefs of Architeéture, 
Ecclefiaftical as well as Military, in 
Great Britain, and on the correfponding 
Changes in Manners, Laws, and Cuftomns, 
tending both to illuftrate Modern Hiftory, 
and to elucidate many interefting Paflages 
in various ancient Claffic Authors.” Of 
this work, which from its title page ap- 
pears to be extremely comprehentive in 
its plans, the firft volume only is yet 
publithed, referring folely to the earlieft 
periods of Britifh Hiftory, to the days of. 
druidifm and of patriarchal manners. 
The feeond will relate to the works of 
the Romans in this ifland, and the im-. 
provements which they introduced; to 
fuch works as were Britifh imitations of 
Phenician and Syrian architecture, to 
thofe which were mere imitations of 
Roman archireéture, and alfo to fuch as . 
were but imitations of thofe imitations. 
The 
