1799.] 
in a feries of one hundred engraved plates : 
To which is added, a Treatife on the 
beauty of the Art.” Second Number 
(in German) confifting of thirteen plates 
royal folio.—All the drawings are from 
the pencil of Mr. Schwender, and are en- 
graved by Citizens Gaztte, Piguet, and 
Ranfonnette of Paris, and Mr. Boettger of 
Leipzig. Eight Numbers, containing from 
twelve to thirteen plates each, will con- 
clude this magnificent work: the fub- 
fcription price for each is five rix-dollars, 
or about one guinea Englith. 
_ The fecond volume of ** A Univerfal 
Dictionary of Commercial Geography, by 
PeveHET, is juft publifhed at Paris. 
‘The remaining two volumes are fhortly to 
tollow. 
Citizen AzuNr has lately publifhed 
** An Hiftorical, Geographical, Political, and 
Phyfical Account of the Kingdom of Sardinia.” 
A good defcription of that country has 
been hitherto a defideratum ; which is 
well fupplied by the prefent work, at a 
time when this as well as the other coun- 
tries of Italy are become more interefting 
than they have been at any time fince the 
fall of the Roman Empire. 
There has juit iffued trom the Parifian 
preis, a tranflation of Guthrie’s Geographi- 
cal Grammar, by Citizens NoEL, Ex- 
Ambaffador to the Batavian Republic, 
and Souxe’s, author of the Hiltory of 
the American Revolution, and tranflator 
of Blair’s Leftures. It is publifhed in 
three volumes, 8vo. 2100 pages, clofely 
and elegantly printed, with an Atlas in 
4to. of 34 maps. This is not merely a 
tranflation, there being nearly a third 
part ot new matter, particularly an ac- 
count of the events that have occurred in 
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édition of Guthrie, in 1796 ; the divifions 
ancient and modern, compared with the new 
Republics; the Jaf partition of Poland ; 
the difcoveries of Peyroufe and Vancouver ; 
a fucciné theory ot the earth and rivers 
from Buffon and Lametherie ; a concife 
analyfis of Bafching and Zimmermann on 
Europe ; and of the German and Englith 
Geographers Bruns, Fabri, Brooke, Gordon, 
&c. &c. befides feveral later writers: a 
Treatife on Foreign Exchange ; a Hiftory 
of the Banks and Commercial Companies 
of Europe ; a Table of the Weights and 
Mealures of different nations compared 
with thofe of France oldand new. ‘There 
are allo feveral maps that are not in the 
eriginal work. Upon the whole, with 
the corrections, additions, and improve- 
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ceived from the learned tranflators, it may 
be well confidered one of the moft com- 
plete fyftems of geography that has ever 
appeared ; and it is without exception the 
cheapeft, the price being only 21 livres, 
or 24 livres with coloured maps. 
The French Journals ftate, that there 
is at Naples, a Seminary for the natives 
of Clrina, to which a number of Chinefe, 
induced by the reprefentations of miffion- 
aries, have been in the practice of coming 
in order to be inftructed im the principles 
of the Chriftian Religion. But that thofe 
who returned to China have immediately 
been hanged, and thus enjoyed the fu- 
preme felicity of martyrdom. Such is 
the anxiety of that extraordinary govern- 
ment to prevent innovation. 
Fourcroy’s ‘ Elements of Chemifiry,” 
have been tranflated into the Swedith ae 
guage, by the celebrated Dr. SPARMANN, 
and into the Danifh by M. Scuisr. 
The learned philologift, Dawnier 
WYTTENBACH, has been lately appoints 
ed Proteflor of Rhetoric, univerfal, lite- 
rary, and philotophical hiftory, antiqui- 
ties, Greek and Latin literature, at Ley- 
den : and to great an acquifition dees that 
univerfity confider this protefor, that they 
have not only engaged to allow him an 
annual falary of ten thoufand livres, but 
have alfo exempted him from all the fees, 
to the payment of which he otherwife 
would be fubjeét as a proteHor, and mem- 
ber of the faculty of philofophy. 
While the Alps have been a thoufand 
times traverfed, and their beauties and 
natural curiofities have excited the admi- 
ration of travellers; while their minerat 
and vegetable produétions have enriched 
the cabinets and herbals of philofophers 
and virtuofi, the Pyrenean mountains 
have, till of late, been unaccountably 
neglected: that reproach, hewever, no 
longer remains. Among the. numerous 
works that hive within thefe few years 
deferibed that vaft and curious chain of 
mountains, we have tonotice Dr. Fagas, 
of St. Savior’s, %* Obfervations on the 
principal Mineral Waters of the high mouns 
tains of the Pyrenees, and their medicinal 
wiriues, paritcularly thofe in the mountain 
of Saint Saviur, with feveral tnportant 
cures effected by the latter.” 
The late Leipzig fair has produced a 
valt number of publications, which are, 
as ufval, of a two-fold charatter; and 
the majority of them. little better than 
common place. Some honourable excep- 
tions, however, there are. Among the 
latter, as a work of extraordinary value, 
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