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LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL} 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftie and Foreign. 
#* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
R. BROWN’s valuable “* Tra- 
Wil wels in tbe interior of Africa,” 
which we noticed fome time fince, will be 
publithed ina few weeks. Mr. Brown’s 
difcoveries meet thofe of Mr. PARK’s and 
complete the knowledge of that parallel 
of the interior of Africa, which its com- 
prehended between 10 and 20 degrees of. 
north latitude. A German tranflation 
of this work is already announced. 
The ‘Travels. of the DUKE. DE 
LA ROCHEFOUCAULT LIANCOURT, 
through the United States and Canada, 
will pofitively be deliverd in three or four 
days. 
‘CAPTAIN TURNER, who has already 
interefted the public by his account of the 
grand Lama, has in the prefs an account 
of his Travels through Thibet, and of 
his refidence in that part of Afia, at pre- 
fent fo little known-to Europeans. 
The firft vol. of the ‘* Necrology,”> will 
be ready for publication early in Augutt. 
On the 28th of May, the socreTy 
FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE 
AgtTs, &c. made its annual diftribu- 
tion of rewards. In confideration of the 
great abilities and public zeal manifefted 
by Mr. BARRY, in the fplendid feries of 
pictures which ornament their great room, 
the fociety unanimoufly voted him the gold 
medal, and 200 guineas. “The fame was 
this day publicly prefented by the DuKE 
of NORFOLK, the prefident of the fociety ; 
and when Mr. B. made his appearance 
he was received by a large and brilliant 
affembly, with an univerfal clapping of 
hands, and with other teftimonies ofappro- 
bation, fuchas were never before exhibited 
in the fociety. Mr. Cooke, a joiner of 
Newington, received a bounty of twenty 
guineas, for a new and expeditious mode 
ef turning f{pheres with mathematical ac- 
ppt Mr. GooDRICH received another 
bounty of imty-five pounds for a new 
clock, in whicha crank is fubftituted for 
an e{capement, and confequently it is per- 
fe&tly filent while going: the imventor 
thinks it may be applied with advan- 
taze to wooden clecks. Mr. RoBERT 
Hywnam of St. Peterfourgh, received 
the gold medal for a curious machine 
for guaging the cutters of wheels 
ufed in clocks and watches, accom- 
anied by a large volume of minute 
calculations, which are to be copied at 
the expence of the fociety. Mr. THomas 
WAKEFIELD received the filver medal 
for the communication of- anew method- 
of making hay in wet weather, by tying 
it up in the form of a cone. 
Mr. Pianta, Librarian of the Britith 
Mufeum, will tpeedily publifh his ex- 
pected “* Hiffory of Switzerland.” 
Mr. M. P. Kina, has announced for 
publication by fubicription, price one 
guinea, a ‘* General Treatife on Mujfic 5” 
particularly on harmony, or thorough 
bafs, and its application in compofition : - 
written on a new plan, tending to explain 
and illuitrate the (cience in general. 
Dr. Mavor, whofe judicious Work 
of Britifh Biography (the Britzf/b Nepes) 
hes obtained a rapid eftablifhment in the 
principal {chools, is at this time prepar- 
ing an elementary and popular work of 
Natural Fifiory, defigned alfo for the ule 
of {chools. : 
The LINNZAN SOCIETY will pub- 
lifh the afth volume of its “ Trafafions* 
in the courfe of the autumn. 
A new fociety, the obje&t of which is 
to promote a knowledge of Eaftern Li- 
terature, is about to be eftablified in Lon- 
don, under the moft refpeStable aufpices. 
Mr. Josse, the author of a Spanifh 
grammar, is preparing for the prefs, a 
work entituled ** El Yeforo Efpanol,” or 
Elegant Extracts from eminent Spanifh 
authors, with biographical notices. 
‘* A Hiftory of Hat-making,”’ the procefs 
of that manufaétory, whether for wool or 
fiuf hats, with the various ways of de- 
frauding their mafters practifed by the 
journeymen, and the beft manner of dif- 
covery, together with a lift, &c. of en- 
gines introduced into that bufinefs, will 
be publifhed by a gentleman of New- 
caitle about September next. 
Our notice of Mr. BARRON’S work 
was incorreét. The work which is un- 
derftood to have employed Mr. Bar- 
RON’s pen for feveral years is the ** Hi/- 
tory of Letters,” the greater part of which 
is already finifhed. His Lectures on the 
principles of Rhetoric and Compofition 
he delivers annually in the Univerfity of 
St. Andrews. As long as Dr. BLaIrR’s 
leures on the fame fubjeét continue 
popular, it is not probable that Mr. Bar- 
RON will trouble the world with his im- 
provements. 
Mr. 


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