So a 
eulars of a vifit to'the pyramids of Gizeh ; 
teferibes a curious flab of granite, dif. 
cov vered in a mofque, aed embellithed 
ith hieroglyphics, which are carved in 
i ae manner. He alfo_gives 
the true dimenfions of Pompey’ column, 
attributed, with more juftice to Septimus 
Severus ; = defcribes Cleopatra’s needle, 
the bale. of which is here, for the firt 
time, engraved, the earth having been 
lately dug away from around it. A great 
=a ~ ene remarks in this littl vo- 
fame are new, and Norry’s account of 
‘the expedition is witten with equal fim- 
plicity and candour. 
‘¢ Des anciens Gouvernemens 
ifs,” o&e. 
Governments, and the Legiflation of 
Crete. 8y0. | The principal intent of 
this work is to prove that the Amphic- 
tyonic affemblies were not federative bo- 
dies, and that fuch did not exit in Greece 
amterior to the Achean league. It ap- 
pears to the author, that the origin of 
the ancient féderative Leah Wi 1s con- 
necied with the eftablith tof the re- 
ie ion, both pudiuc and my pee ous of the 
Ske he therefore concludes, that re- 
atone ef this nature are calculated. to 
throw new light on the commencement 
and the formation of focieties, and even 
elucidate {ome obfcure paffages in the ha- 
rangues of Aifchines and Demofthenes. 
This work, which is the production 
of -C., SAINT ECROIX, was read _ before 
the Academy of Infcriptions and Belles 
Kettres. The following are the heads 
into which it is divided:-—1. Of the firtt 
political affeciations, and of thofe of the 
Amphittyoas S s—2. Of the 
Fédéra- 
in Greece 
origin of the Amphiétyonic aflemblies ; 
—— 3. OF +the laws and cuitoms~ of 
the Amphiétions of Delphos ;—4. An 
Inquiry into the Queition, whether the 
gi send Aimphigtyonic afembly was really 
a eval diet of the diferent nations of 

Greece 3—5- Of the Anrphittyons them- 
felves ;~6.- Of the A re lea agues, and par- 
ticularly the Achean league ;—7. Cf the 
other leagues of Greece, and of «that of 
Aha -“Wimor <ana, 8) OF .the Ame 
phittyonic and federaiive affociations of 
italy 
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‘“* Antiquités Poétiques, ou Differta- 
tions,’ &c. Poetical Antiquities, &c 
by C. Bouchaud, Member of the Nae 
Pheenicia, Lower Egypt, d€- 
_ tional Inftitute, and Profeffor to the Col= 
_lege of France. 
This is a continuation 
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TUELA, cf the National Inftitute of 
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mathematical, knowledge, but he is at 
great pains to exhibit the grounds of the 
varions difputes of fcientific men on this 
fubjeét, from the earlieft periods to the 
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