1800]. 
Virgil; and the type is faid to be fill {u- 
perior. The price to fub{cribers is twelve 
hundred franks; or eighteen hundred for 
copies with proof plates, of which there 
-are to be one hundred. » The Virgil is the 
beginning of a magnificent collection of the 
clafiics ; ‘and Horace is next to appear. 
Two Danifh gentlemen, M. Heiberg 
and Home, have been banifhed for the 
freedom of their writings, according to 
the late laws for the regulation of the 
prefs. ‘The reftraints lately :put upon the 
prefs in Denmark were at the requifition 
of a neighbouring power, from whom a 
declaration of war was averted on this 
condition ! 
Gabriel Knocuer, profeffor of aftrono- 
my in the univerfity of Ingolftadt, writes 
to M. Von Zach, that he had found the 
original manufcripts of feveral aftronomical 
obfervations, made by the Jefuits in Chi- 
na; which he’promifes to communicate to’ 
M. Von Zach, to be publifhed in his 
Monihly Correfpondence. On this occafion 
he oblerves refpecting the map of.China, 
accompanying the Account of Lord Ma- 
eartney’s Embaffly, that, however accurate 
it may be on the whole, yet he confiders 
the delineation of the celebrated wall to be 
incorrect, as it has a quite different ap- 
pearance in a large map of China‘and Tar- 
tary, laid down by the Jefuits, but whic 
has not been engraved.---Proreflor Knog- 
ler likewife pofleffes a map of California, 
. drawn by the Jefuits. Although from the 
ebfervations of the laft. circumnavigators, 
La Peroufe, Vancouver, &c. we have be- 
come more accurately acquainted with the 
coaits of California; yet thefe older maps 
of the Jefuits may give us a knowledge of 
the interior of the country, which we do 
not yet poffefs, and thus prove a valuable 
acquifition to the fcience of geography. 
In the f{ummer of 1799, the Swedifh aca- 
demician Gons Svanberg, was fent by the 
Royal Academy of Stockholm to Lapland, 
to examine into the fituation and local cir- 
cumftances of that part of the country, 
-where, in 1736, the French academicians, 
De Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Mon- 
‘nier, -the abbé Outhier, and Celfius, pro- 
feffor of aftronomy at Upfal, meafured a 
deoree of latitude under the polar circle, 
of the accuracy of which menfuration doubts 
had long ago arifen. And from a compa- 
rifon of Svanberg’s oblervationss of which 
he has communicated an account to the 
academy, .with the circumftances atten- 
ding the operations of the French academt- 
cians, it becomes more and more evident, 
_ that, to decide this interefting queftion, it 
“is nsceflary to meafure anew a degree in 
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thefe northern regions. Hopes are enter- 
tained, that as foon as the requifite inftru- 
ments can.be procured, anew menfuration 
will actually be undertaken, under the au- 
{pices of the Swedifh government, by Svan-+ 
berg and the engeneer Ofverbom. 
‘A tranflation of Benjamin Marryn’s 
Philofophical Grammar into the modern or 
vulear Greek language, was laft year pub- 
lifhed at Vienna, under the following title 
Tpapapaarinn vay Pirorodinay Emconeay cuvromoe 
AVERUTES TNS TELAMATINNG YEWTEpES diroropiac 
Har EpwTamronpiry cuyypapsiod MEY Tapa Tow 
‘Ayyhov Reviapty Maprivon vov 38 mparov Exdo~ 
Ckica €ic thy TaY “EAAnYOY StdAsuroy, wad perce 
. ’ ~ x 
TEC AV onLELanaTeY emauenvociae Tapa AvOipwaw 
Tacn dpyudr. (dovinaydpirov) Jerraroucyinrors 
epiepaleica TH Tyla adeApornt: Tav nuplom 
Lwrnuarowy Trouog A’. ev Bien Ths "Avot piace 
Tape ro Opavré Avroviw Xx patnxBrA.1799, 3VO» 
This firf part, without including the 
Dedication to the incomparable brothers 
Anaftafius, Nicolaus, Zoi and Michael 
Zofima, thofe excel!ent Joannites and dif- 
.tinguifhed patrons of the Greek {chools, 
fills: 363 pages; with cuts by Schindel- 
mayer.’ The fecond part, together with 
the firft, and the Index, contains 695 
pages ; the paginal numbers being conti- 
nued from the firft. The tranflator is a 
phyfician: the Greek tranflation however 
is not made from the original Englith, bug 
from a French tranflation, which was pub_ 
lithed under the following title: Grammaire 
des SciencesPhilofophiques, ou Analyfe abregée 
dela philofaphie moderne, appuyee fur les expe 
wicnces. Traduite de? Anglois de Benj. Mar- 
142, O\Paris,1749, 8v0.384 p. Phe French 
tranflator defignates: himfelf in a letter to 
a friend, by the monograms D. A. E. P. 
which have not yet beendecyphered. The 
‘ftyle of the modern Greek tranflator ap- 
‘proaches very nearly to Hellenifm ; as that 
of. the Raffians, Servians, Montegrini, 
greatly refembles Slavoni‘m.-— Compare 
the Ruffian tranflation of Telemachus, 
‘and Raich’s hiftory of the Slavonic Na- 
tions. 
The States of Eaft Prafia having, ace 
cording to the ufageof the country, gran- 
\ 
ted to the prefent king of Pruffia, on do- 
ing him homage at his acceffion to the 
throne, a free-gift of 00,000 florins; his 
majefty was pleafed to accept it, but, with 
laudable zeal for the good of his fubjeéts, 
applied the money tothe amelioration of 
the fchools, both in the towns and the 
country.—In a German journal, feveral 
moft gracious letters of thanks from the 
king and queen of Pruffia to literati and 
artifts who had prefented their works to 
their majctties. 
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