Vox. VI.)  Retrofpec? of Domeftic Literature...Poyages, &Sc. 
has already acquired, for indefatigable 
diligence and perfevering refearch ; the 
fubject of which it principally treats is a 
very interefting one, namely the religious 
foundations in Leicefter, With much an. 
tiguarian and topographical information, 
Mr. Nichols has judicioufly intermingled 
a variety of anecdotes and biographical 
iketches. A monument, difcovered by 
the Count Path of Krinen, in the iland 
of Nios, anciently called Ios, was fup- 
pofed to be the tomb of Homer, and un- 
der that idea it was carried into Ruffia. 
Mr. C. G. Heyne has publithed with 
illuftrations and yotes, ‘* The Pretended 
Tomb of Homer: drawn by Dominic Fio- . 
rillo, trom a tketch of M. le Chevalier. 
From the inequality of workmanfhip in 
the farcophagus, and the mixture of Ro- 
man and Grecian ftyle in the relievo, Mr. 
HeyYveE plaufibly conjetures, that ‘* fome 
Roman who lived in the illand had em- 
ployed different hands to execute this far- 
cophagus; or perhaps finding a Greek 
work in an imperfeét {tate, he finifhed it. 
M. Le Chevalier mentions no infcrip- 
tion on the farcophagus ; fo that in that 
particular we are very far from the tomb 
of Homer.”” Mr. Salmon’s ‘* Defcription 
of the Works of Art of ancient and modern 
Rome, Gc.” is a compilation of inferior 
merit: one volume only is yet publithed, 
An anonymous writer who feems well 
qualified tor this and more arduous under- 
takings has publithed ** 4 Brief Account 
of Stratford upon Avon, with a particular 
Defcripiwn and Survey of the Collegiate 
Church, the Maufoleum of Shak{peare, &c. 
a biographical fketch ig added of three 
prelates who derive their furnames from 
stratford, the place of their nativity. 
VOYAGES, TRAVELS AND TOURS. 
We are indebted to Mr. CoLuins for 
an interefting ‘* Accoust of the Englifh Co- 
tony iz New South Weles: It does not 
appear that the terrible mortality among 
the convicts, and the multiplied hard- 
fhips endured by thofe who remained alive, 
had any favourable effect on their conta- 
minated morals; famine repeatedly ftared 
them in the tace, but intoxication was re- 
forted to as the ‘* {weet oblivious anti- 
dote’® of all their forrows! ‘* Webb, 
the fettler near Paramatta, having pro- 
cured a ftill from England, found it more 
profitable to obtain an ardent diabolical 
fpirit from his wheat, than to fend it to 
the ftore and receive ten fhillings per 
bufhel from the commiflary.”” To the 
credit of M‘Dona.p, he forewent the 
advantage arifing from fuch pernicious 
traffic, and having a mill, he greund and 
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dreffed his wheat and fold it at four-pence 
a pound. Mr. CoLuins afferts that no 
trace whatever of religion is to be found 
among the natives: they worfhip no pla- 
net, no element, nothing animate or in- 
animate, natural or artificial. Thie ap- 
pears to be the cafe among the natives of 
Caffraria. Captain STouT who com- 
manded the fhip Hercules, has publithed 
a painful ‘* Narrative’? of her lofs on that 
coatit, onthe 18th of June 1796; together 
with a detail of his travels through the 
fouthern coaft of Africa and the colonies 
to the Cape of Good Hope. Notwith- 
ftanding thefe wandering children of na- 
ture who are f{cattered over the Africam 
world, thefe favages as they are called 
by thofe civilized barbarians, ‘ thofe en- 
lightened favages, who, under the AD . 
pellation of Chritians and Dutchmen, fet » 
tled themfelves by vioience on the fouthern 
promontory ;:’? notwithftanding thefe in- 
habitants of Caffraria have no faint idea. 
of the fuperintendence of an omnipotent 
and univerfal providence, to their huma- 
nity and their open unfufpicious hofpita- 
lity, was the fhipwrecked crew of the 
Hercules indebted for its prefervation, 
protection, and fafe arrival at the Cape. 
Captain Srour’s narrative is drawn up 
with ability, it abounds with curious 
facts, and trom its fimplicity we can have 
no queftion of its truth. The refleétions 
which occur are infinitely more creditable 
than thofe deteftable, narrow-minded fen- 
timents which difgrace Mr. CoLLins’s 
work: we refer to the curfed policy which 
meets his eulogium, of enchaining the 
mind of man for the purpofe of enflaving 
the body. Mr. Brooxe’s “ Gbferwa- 
tions on the Manners and Cuftoms cf Italy,’ 
if not very novel or protound, are not 
wholly deftitute of ufeful information : 
Mr. BROOKE feems to be a gaod hu- 
moured traveller, and is certainly an en- 
tertaining writer; his volume abounds 
with lively anecdotes, many of which, 
though not abfolutcly indelicate, are to- 
lerably {picy : the title page of his book 
is very trumpery—a hand-bill—the hand- 
bill of a mere quack. It is now upwards of 
halfa century fince the publication of « 4/- 
ley’s Voyages and Travels; they have 
multiplied to fuch’ an amazing degree 
fince that time that Dr. Mavor’s 66 if’ 
torical Account of the mofi celebrated Veyages, 
Travels, and Lifcoucries from the time cf 
Columbus to the prefent period,” will cer- 
tainly be regarded as avery ufetul and 
featonable compilation : it is publithed ia 
twenty auodecimo volumes. While that 
moft intelligent and intrepid traveller Mr. 
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