IO4 ff Retrofped of Deomeftic Literature. Voyages and Travels. 
pretnatne farther to the fouth or weit, 
as he had intended. In 1797 he vifited 
Syria; and, after remaining there fome 
Ae nS aay to London by way of 
Confansinaple. Mr. Browne has alrered 
the orthogr: aphy of, many. of the towns 
i a which he pafed : Damictra is 
Hee : Rofetta Rafchid, Joppa Yaffe, 
nd Cairo Kahira. The greateft ufe of 
YS ae urney has been to ret chify fome con- 
rderable miftakes of major Rennel, and 
haan ers, who had before treat- 
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ed "of this kes ty explored country. 
It ovght to be cbf erved, that this work 
¥s .occafional ly tinétured by the new pht- 
Icfophy, and contains paflages « of an Anti- 
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engineer In the French navy, and em- 
pivyed by che old government of France; 
which, if we may believe cur author 
(vol. TL. Pe 230), bad the fame defign of 
coloaiing E Egypt w hich the republic has 
finse carried into effect, to explore that 
country, and bring as minute an account 
as pofible of all that it contained worthy 
ef notice. It is faid that his account af- 
fitted in determining the directory to put 
that remarkable projec into execution. 
ea, work was not publifhed at Paris till - 
e prelent year, fo thar Dr. Hunter, 
whe has - pr retented the Engiifh public 
vith a ‘tranilation, | has at leaft the. merit 
o} cele ry and incuftry. The contraft 
between the politieal fentiments of the 
author and the tranflator is very firiking = 
che furmer takes every epporrunity of al- 
ee with enthufiaftic ad imtration, to 
oe revolution, and to the Egyp- 
Dex epedition ef Bonaparte; the latter 
refixes to his tranflation an almoft 
dicatton to Mr. Pitt, and 
tually into his notes antidotes 
t he deems the poifon of the 
ExT. ies this account of Ey pt there is 
inute an attention to natural hi- 
the Ben neral reader. “Fhe author 
expedition to that part of the 
which is called the defert 
saint tM acarius, and gives a 
fiing pictare of the Cophtic 
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account.of the Saade, .or r terpent- ~eaters, 
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but the moft novel and fertking 
that of certain opératiens 
din Egvpt on ee which are 
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nave Deen avoided, as they render 

the book quite unfit for the parlour win- 
dow. From the circumftance of Mourar 
Bey having come in competition with 
Buonaparte, the anecdotes relating to 
him will of courfe be- read with ay: idity. 
& portrait of this warrior Is prefixed to 
ae fecond volume; befides which, there 
are feveral maps and engravings illuf#ra- 
tiye of the work. We cannot {peak very 
highly in favour of the tranflation : it has 
new. and 
which are almoft ledicrous. ~ ! 
Mr. Pratt, after publithing three 
volumes of his “* Gleaniags’’ on the Con- 
tinent, has added a fourth, which cen- 
tains the commencement of his gleaning— 
i this country. 
tand that this volume, which contains, 
We are giventc under- 
only part of Norfolk, farms | but the be- 
ginning of the author’s defign. Tf the 
feque] be carried on with the fame te- 
cioas garrulity as the commencement, 
tlie public will have reafon to with that” 
Mr. Das had never formed the defign 
of gleaming in England. .The part of 
aes work Hivhich will the moft. intere& 
the reader, 
view which this gleaner had with an 
amiable and- nol eecenme character, 
Henry Lee Warner. Efq. the proprietor 
of W alfingham Abbey: however afto- 
nithing his. peculiaritics may appear, we 
have reafon to believe the defcription: is 
not at all exaggerated. The count 
about Cromer is fingularly beautiful, and 
had it been gleaned by a man of tate and 
judgment, would have yielded fomething 
befides poppies. 
“Letters from. It aly, between the 
Years 1792 and 1798, by MARIANA 
STARKE,” form a work which, though 
it poffefies no literary’ merit, is very in- 
terefting at the prefent moment, from 
the ext: raordinary. circumfiances which 
occurred during the author’s refidence in 
Italy. Mrs. Starke. prefents ‘us’ with a 
view of the revolutions in that ccuntry, 
from the capture of Nice by General An- 
feim in the autumn of 1792, to the ex- 
pulfion of Pius VI. from the ecclefiafti- 
cal fate. Our author is evidently very 
hoftile to the French caufe, which fhe calls 
that of blafphemers, regidides, and rob 
bers; but, except in afew inftances, fhe has 
treated 3 its pat rtifans bes candour. She 
acknowledges to have witneffed the mi- 
fe ry of Savoy under the old government, 
we are therefore the defs furprifed at 
favourable reception the French met. 
ith in that country. Whether the 
Savoyards have had reafon to resent of 
their conduét we know not; but we very» 
much fufpeét that both in France and in 
the 
then fome miufconftruétions ~ 
is the account of an inter- - 
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