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MMuncoP ark is preparing for publication 
a detail of his progrels among the Lybian 
deferts, the very refpeétable ‘ Afjoctation 
fer promoting the Difcevery of the interior 
parts of Africa’’ has gratihed the curiolity 
of its fub{cribers, by priuting thofe of its 
«© Proceedings’ which contain an abftraét 
of Mr. Parx’s account*. This abftract 
is abridged from his own minutes by Mr. 
Bryan Epwarps, and the geographi- 
* eal illuftrations, as well of North Africa 
at large as of Mr. Park’s journey in par- 
ticular, are given by the learned and in- 
enious Major RENNEL. Some of Mr. 
ARK’S geographical difcoveries we no- 
-ticed in the account juft referred to below ; 
particularly the ea/ward courfe of the 
Niger, which is now firt fettled from 
ocular obfervation, and the probability of 
its junGion, not with the waters of the 
Nile, but with the broad lake of Wan- 
gara. Mr. Park explored the interior of 
Africa to the diftance of 1400 miles in a 
direct line from Cape Verd: his traét in 
going was bounded by the 15th, and in 
returning by the 12th parallel of latitude: 
he found the country inhabited by three 
diftin& races, the Mandingas, natives of 
Nigritia; the Foulahs, or white Ethio- 
pians ; and the Moors, natives of Arabia. 
The firft, like their fouthern brethren, 
‘the Caffrarians, are remarkably hofpita- 
ble and kind-hearted: the Moors, like 
their Arabian anceftors, are wandering 
fhepherds who regard the Chriitians with 
‘ fach inconceivable abhorrence, that to 
avoid falling into their ferocious hands 
was a matter of indifpenfable neceffity: 
The Foulahs have a fort of intermediate 
ghara&ter : without the cruelty of the one 
ex the cordiality of the other. “The ar- 
rangement of Mr. Park’s materials mut 
be a work of labour and of time, and the 
publication of his travels will be looked for- 
ward towith impatience. s tranflation has 
appeared of M. VAN Braam’s * An- 
thentic Narrative of the Journey of the Em- 
baffy of the Dutch Eaft India Company to the 
Court of the Emperor of China, in the year 
1794—5, (fubjequent to that of the Earl 
gf Macartney) ;” to this very interefting 
publication is added a neat and accurate 
chart of the route. ‘“* Lie Fourxal” is 
sublifhed of Mr: S. HoLMES, made dar- 
ing his attendance as one of the guards on 
@? Ohi went ta ee ee 
% Our readers will doubtlefs recollect the 
saterefting account which in a former volume 
we were enabled to give them of this fociety, 
lay the favour and rpolitenefs of one of its 
fubfcribers. See Monthly Magazine, Vol. 
iy. p. 369, and Wol. v. p. 449. See alfo 
Moathly Review, Vol. ii. of the new fexies. 
Retrofpect of Domeftic Literature,..V nyazes, &e. 
fSuP. 
Lord MACARTNEY’s Embafly to China = 
it cannot be expeéted to contain much in- 
fermation which has not already been be- 
fore the public. A great deal of very 
curious and interefting information will ~ 
be obtained from the perufal of Mr. 
GEoRGE FOorRSTER’s ‘“* Fourney from 
Bengal to England through the northern part 
of India, Kafomire, Afghanifian, and Per- 
fia, and into Ruffia by the Cafpian Sea:* 
Thecharacter of Mr. FORSTER (who is 
in the fervice or the Eaft India Company) 
has long fince been made known to us by 
Major RENNEL, and from this character. 
we are authorifed to place much confi- 
dence in the accuracy of his information. 
The late Captain George Vancouver's 
<< Voyage of Difcovery to the North Pacifie 
Ocetn and round the World” 1s publifhed, 
in three f{plendid quarto volumes; this 
voyage was undertaken by his majefty’s 
command, principally with a view to af- 
certain the exiftence of any navigable 
communication between the North Pacific 
and North Atlantic oceans; it was per- 
formed in the years 1790 91, 925 93> 94+ 
and g5, in the Difcovery floop of war, 
and armed tender Chatham. ‘The veffels 
paffed Deftruétion Ifland, and at laft en- 
tered the fuppofed ftrait of John Be Fuca, 
about lat. 48% 20’. Nootka Sound is on¢ 
part of a clufter of iflands within which 
there is a navigable paflage, but on the 
eait of thefe, the continent is difcovered 
with infurmountable impediments to the 
long-fought navigation! Nothing perhaps 
does more honour to the prefent reigr 
than the fpirit of navigation which it has. 
encouraged, and the various voyages of 
difcovery which it has patronifed: this 
fpirit was imbibed by our neighbours on 
the continent ; fearcely was the laft voyage 
of Cook made known by the tragical end 
of the illuftrious chief of the expedition, 
than France projefted the plan of a voyage 
of difcovery, in order to concur in per- 
feng the knowledge of the globe. In 
the year 3735 an expedition failed: from 
Bre under the command of the Sieur de 
la Péroufe, who, like his precurfor, Cap- 
tain Cook, loft his life*in the ardour of 
difcovery. La Péroule’s “ Voyage round 
the World** is publifhed, in conformity 
to a decree of the National Affembly, and _ 
it is tranflated into Englifh, :in- three 
volumes oftavo, with plates. By erder of 
the king, the Academy of Sciences drew 
up a memoir for the ufe and direétion of 
the learned and {cientifie perfons embarked 
under the orders of M. de la Péroufe, 
The obfervations made, and the enquiries 
recommended in this memoir are reduced 
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