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ceflors, which had either ef{caped him, or 
had not been reprefented with the fri@eft 
impartiality, M. Fifchher, who travelled 
through thecountry in different dire&tions, 
from Bilbao to Barcelona, has by the pub» 
lications of his Views of the Manners and 
Literature of Spain, completely tupplied 
the deficiencies of his celebrated prede- 
ceflor, His aim was to give a picture of 
the living ; though init he likewife intro- 
duces with great are a fketch of the coun- 
try. He has completely attained his aim ; 
it is the hivelieft piéture of men and 
manners we yet have refpecting Spain; 
with all the frefhnefs of the neweft impref- 
fions, as on every occafion he notices the 
influence which the French fyftem of po- 
litics adopted by the Prince of Peace has 
had on the Spanifh people. Mr. Fiicher’s 
‘Travels contain fome’ excellent contribu- 
tions towards a knowledge of the language 
and literature of tne Spaniards; in which 
refpect the 33d letter efpecially deferves to 
be ftudied. 
Mr. Zacu, the celebrated aftronomer 
of the Seeberg, near Gotha, is no more 
the editor of that very ufeful and inter- 
efting publication, the Univerful Geo- 
graphical Ephemerides, which have been 
publifhed in the years 1798 and 1799, re- 
gularly by monthly numbers, under his fu- 
perintendence. He has commenced with 
the year 1800 publifhing a new monthly 
magazine, under the name of Monatliche 
Correfpondenz, or Monthly Correfpondence 
Jor the Improvement of Geography and Aj- 
tronomy. A regular correfpondence is kept 
up therein with all afronomers, geogra- 
phic and itinerant writers, and Jand-fur- 
veyors, of Europe. By the care of Dr. 
lumenbach at Gottingen, whois intimate- 
ly conneéted with Sir Jofeph Banks, regu- 
lar accounts are given of the moft intere(- 
ting difcoveries of the Englifh in foreign 
countries. Accordingly Mr. Horne- 
mann’s, the African traveller’s, laft com- 
munications are more {peedily publithed in 
the Monthly Correfpondence, than in Lon- 
don itfelf. But the Geographical Ephe- 
tnerides have not been ftopt ; Mr. Gapari, 
a well known Geographic writer, being 
entrufted now with the care of publifning 
them. They appear regularly at the be. 
ginning of every. month at Weimar, and 
contain abundance of matter-and initruc- 
tion for every defcription of readers. 
Every number is ornamented with two or 
three copper-plates, or little maps drawn 
up ina mafterly manner, and never pub- 
lithed before. Such have been in the Hirtt 
Humber, an acurate delineation of a Per- 
fian gymnattic game, called Ward; , and 
an the fecond, a fue drawing of the au- 
Literary and Philsfophical Intelligence. 
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dience given to the celebrated Ruffian tra- 
veller, Mr. Pallas, by the chief of the Cal- 
mucks, furrounded with all the princely 
ftate of his broadfaced courtiers. Thele 
interefting communications have been fent 
from Peterfburg, and will. continue regu- 
larty. In the third number, a curious 
diflertation on the different phenomena by 
which various images appear in the clouds, 
(fata morgana) or oppolite fea coafis feem 
to rife in the air, has been publifhed by 
Doétcr Reinecke, a gentieman at Weimar, 
pretty well verfed in phytics and natural 
hiftory, and partaking in the far-extended 
enterprifes of Mr. Bertach, the proprietor 
of the Induftry-Comptoirat Weimar. The 
diflertation is illuftrated with feveral cop~ 
per-plates, very well calculated to give a 
full infight into thefe optic delufions. 
Profeflor Gafpari, the editor, has likewife 
publithed a Geographical Almanach, to be 
continued every year, in which an intere{- 
ting retrofpeét of every publication con- 
cerning geography during the lait year, 
of new maps and travelling- books, is giver 
in a fuperiour manner. This Almanack, 
enriched with maps and copper-platesy cail- 
not fail to attract the notice and meet the 
applaule of every lover of geography and | 
ftatiftical accounts. A very intereftine 
publication has been printed and engraved 
likewife for Mr: Bertuch, which bears the 
title; Ajronomical Atlas, compiled by 
Mr. Goldbach, and revifed at the obfer- 
vatory of the Seeberg, near Gotha. It 
conilts of fixty copper-plates, in {mall fo- 
Jio, executed with the utmof# care, and 
atter a new plan, the conttellations being 
left in blank, all the ground being done 
in black, by which means it will be found 
very cafy by every dilettanti of aftrono- 
my, to fiudy that fcience by himfelf in 
comparing the plates‘ with the ftarry hee- 
vens. An introduétion is prefixed to the 
whole by Mr. Zach, in a very concile and 
mafterly manner. Indeed Mr. Bertuch is 
intitled to the higheft praites for forward- 
ing fuch ufetul enterprifes, with an unre= 
mitting zeal an. the great accuracy. 
Mr. Matthia, engaged at the Acade- 
my of Mr.. Meunier, at ] elvidere, near 
Weimar, for lectures in the ancient claffics 
and in the German language, for fuch of 
the young Englifh gentiemen who are des 
firsus of it, publithes now a very learned 
‘Commentary on the Hymns of Homer, 
which will appear very foon in the foring 
at Leipfic, in one volume in otavo. He 
made his academical ftudies at Got- 
tingen, under the tuition of Mr. Heyne, 
from whence he went to Amiterdam, and 
engaped” as private tutor to the fon of a 
rich Dutch merchant, There he contrac- 
bed 
