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635 Retro/pect of Domeftic Literature—Voyages, Travels and Tourk 
_the prefent tranflator 1s fill more ftriking. 
The volume is illuftrated with many 
beautiful engravings, and with a map of 
the country. 
Familiar as we have become with the 
Highlands of Scotland, by the reprefen- 
tation of various travellers; yet each fuc- 
eefave tourif{ whe rambles among thefe 
northern hills, prefents us with fome new 
piétures, or imparts to us fome new in- 
formation. Dr. GARNETT, the Profef- 
for of Philofophy in the Royal Inftitution, 
has highly gratified the public by his 
« Obfervations on a Tour through the 
Highlands, &c.” It is impoffible to read 
this work without perceiving that the au- 
thor is a man of great tafte and fcience : his 
defcriptions are remarkably elegant and 
difcriminative, ftriking, and fimple; and 
as a mineralogift, a botanift, and an anti- 
quary, he is equally entitled to great 
refpeét. The volumes are illuftrated by a 
-map and ¢2:plates, engraven in the man- 
ner of Aquatinta, from drawings taken on 
the fpot with great judgment, by Mr. 
Watts, a landfcape painter, who accom- 
panied the author in his teur. : 
Mr. WicsTEAp’s “ Remarks on a 
Tour to North and South Wales, in the 
year 1797,’ though not very firiking in 
themfelves, are ufeful as explanatory of 
fome beautiful plates from Rowlandion, 
Pugh, Hewitt, &c. 
“© The Cambrian Directory, or curfory 
Sketches of the Welfh Territories; with 
a Chart comprehending in one View, the 
_advifable Route, bef Inns, Diftances, KC.” 
is an ufeful companion to the tourift. 
Mr, Park’s Travels in the interior of 
Africa, &c. and Mr. Bryan Edward’s: 
« Hiftory of the Britifh Colonies in the 
Weft Indies,” have both been abridged 
with much judgment from the original 
works: they are moreover printed in a 
very neat and correct manner. 
A Tranflation has appeared from the 
French of M. de Laftenaye’s “ Ram+ 
tles through Ireland.” M. de L.is an 
-emigrant, who became a traveller and an 
_ author for the purpefe of fupport. It is 
creditable to the hofpitality of our Irith 
brethren, that this unfortunate wanderer 
—moneylefs and on foot—during a ramble 
of fix months, was only under the necef- 
fity of lodging at an inn five times! Let 
us never again hear repeated the flan- 
derous epigram, of Shentftone. The ram- 
bles of M.de L. are written in a very 
lively ftyle, and evince, though ‘not much 
folidity of judgment, confiderable aeute- 
nefs of remark. 
; AGRICULTURE, 
At the prefent period of an alarming 
and long continued fearcity, Agriculture 
is the iubjeét of all others which moft 
imperioufly demands attention: we are 
happy therefore to find that the Bath 
Society which for many years have with 
laudable and confpicuous zeal contributed 
towards its improyement by the publica- 
tion of their Memoirs, continue their 
exertions with unabated aétivity. They 
have publifhed’a ninth volume of ‘ Let- 
ters and Papers, &c’’ which though fome- 
what lefs bulky than thofe which have 
preceded them, contains we think a far 
greater proportion of valuable and ufeful 
communications. There isan evil of great 
magnitude and importance, which feems 
to have efcaped the confideration of moft 
perfons who have written on agricultural 
firpjeéts, to which we would willingly call 
the attention of the fociety. Our farmers 
have of late years paid particular regard 
to the breed of their ftock, and numerous 
are the treatifes which have been written 
on the beft proportioned limbs of fwine, 
of oxen ard of fheep: it is to be lament- 
ed that after the exercife of fo much 
judgment in the felection of flock, we 
employ fo little in the management of their 
difeafes. If a farmer has a cow or a bul- 
lock’ taken ili, he fends for the neareft 
leech in‘ his neighbourhood ; a fellow who 
knows as much of the difeafes of animals 
as the beaft to which he is fent for: in- 
deed a fet of beings cannot be more 
deadly ignorant than thefe confequential 
gentlemen, who generally prefcribe a dr7uk 
to the poor creatures, whatever be their 
{ymptoms, or whatever their complaints. 
The veterinary art has been thought of fuf- 
ficient importance to be cultivated in this 
kingdom, and we cannot help wifhing that 
fome of our numerous agricultural Societies 
would form an inftitution for the regular 
inftruétion of perfons in the nofology of 
cattle. It would perhaps be confidered 
as a little izfra dig. by the profeffion, or 
we fhould recommend to thofe many vil- 
lage furgeons, who flave and toil from 
morning till night, and ride half over the 
country for a few fhillings, to offer their 
medical and phyfiological fkill to the far- 
mers in their neighbourhood; many. of 
them would make much better of their 
time than they do at prefent. We merely 
give the hint : fut verdum. 
Mr, MarSHALL, whofe numerous and 
ufeful pubitcations on agricultural aflairs 
have juftly entitled any fuggeftion which 
may come from him to attention, has pub- 
lifhed ‘* Propofals for a Rural Infitute, or 
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