1046 Retvo/pec? of Domefie Literature...Voyages and Travels. 
as, in the furvey which he made of the 
county, he met with the moft friendly 
encouragement and utmoit candour and 
communicativenefs on the’ part of the 
perfons employed. in agriculture, he has 
been able to’ prefent the public with a 
mafs of information which may be de- 
pendedupon. The refult of Mr. Young’s 
enquiry is, that Lincolnfhire ts a feruie 
rather than a beautiful county, though 
he has pointed out fo many picturefque 
beauties in It, as to prove that it is not fo 
devoid of beauty as is.commonly ima- 
gined; that the roads are bad; that the 
women are very lazy ‘as they do nothing 
but bring forth children and eat cake,’ 
and that the fate cf its manufactures is 
very much below par. The volume con- 
tains a map of the foil of Lincolnthire, 
and various other maps, and fome plates. 
“The Praétical Planter, 8c.” by WaL- 
FER Nicon,; is the work of a gentleman 
whochas already been employed more than 
once by the Board of Agriculture to pro- 
mote its purpofes. The author ftrongly 
recommends that all the wafte lands fit 
for the purp fe thould be planted; for he 
juftly obferves, that we depend now on 
foreign nations for the means of fupport- 
ing our great national bulwark, the 
navy; that the balance of the timber 
trade is cenfidcrably againfi us, and’ be- 
fore we can raife fufficient fupplies, may, 
perhaps, be in favour of our enemies. 
‘Fhe work 1s written with peripiculty, 
and does honour to the author's good 
funfe, experience, and patriotifm. 
Mr. Bititincstey has republithed 
his ‘¢ General Review of the Agriculture 
ef the County of Somerfet,” which he 
drew up for the confideration of the 
Board of Agriculture in 1793. He has 
made feveral amendments, and added the 
rernarks of a number of refpectable gen- 
tlemen and farmers of the county. There 
is undoubtedly much valuable and inter- 
efimg matter in this publication, bur it 
is frequeatly thrown together ina foafe 
and carelefs manner. 
% VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 
We cannot more properly commence 
this article than with the notice of an 
-joterefting work, from which we have 
derived an uncommon dégree of infor- 
mation, relative to the va@ continent of 
Kmerica. “ Tour through the United 
States of North America, the Country - 
of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the 
Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By the 
Duke de la RocHEFOUCAULT LIAN- 
court.’ America once formed part 
of the Britifh empire, but the child grew 
too big to be managed; and it muft be 
owned, now that the lapfe of feveral 
years has rendered us capable. of judging 
with calmnefs, that the frowardnefs was 
rather on the part of the parent than of 
the child. But, though the bands of 
civic union which once united us with 
the Americans are diffevered, there are 
ftill fo many points in common between 
us; fo much political connexion, fo much 
commercial intercourfe, fuch a fimilarity 
of manners, fuch an identity of language, 
that every authentic account of the aétual 
ftate of that rifing people cannot fail of 
being received with eagernefs by the Bri- 
tifh public. The author of the prefens 
work is one of the many virtuous and re- 
fpeCtable characters whom the volcano of 
the French revolution has thrown from 
its unfathomable crater; and he could 
not, it feems to us, fpend the time of his 
exile better, than in examining a country 
fo gigantic in its natural productions, fo 
boundlefs in its extent, fo various in its 
population, fo peculiarly calculated to at- 
tract the attention of a philofophic mind, — 
as the continent of America. The refult 
of the obfervations which he has been en- 
abled to make, by. a three years’ prefence 
on the fpot, he has communicated to the 
public in the French language. Mr. 
NzeuMAN has tranflated it into Englifh ; 
and, in his preface, lays claim to faithful- 
ne{s, fimplicity, and correéinefs, of Eng- 
lith phrafeology. Not having feen the 
original, we can only fay, that we are — 
not unwilling to admit his firft claim, 
from our conviétion of the juftice of the 
two latter. The author has not only 
filled his pages with information of the 
moft recent and important kind, but he 
has done it in a very ample manner; for 
his work confifts of no lefs than two large 
quarto volumes; which, as they may-in 
fome degree be confidered diftiné works, 
the firft containing the tour through the 
northern provinces, and the fecond that 
through “the fouthern, each illuftrated 
with its appropriate. maps, may. be pur- 
chafed feparately. “The Duke de Lian- 
court has-conducted his work very much 
‘on the plan of Mr. Arthur Young’s 
“Your through France and Italy ;”” and 
we find in it the fame minute attention 
to the quality of the foil, the ftate of 
agriculture, the condition of the hufband- 
man, andthe progrefs of manufactures, 
which rendered the latter gentleman fo 
ufeful. a traveller. The prefent work 
contains much authentic information re- 
lative to other ftriking features of the 
American republic; and is interfperfed 
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