1070 
in Germany, by-feveral former works of 
natural hiftory, difplays in the prefent 
publication a high degree of judgment 
and diligence. It contains 1020 {pecies 
of animals which are indigenous in Ba- 
varia. With regard to fyftematie order, 
he has adopted a method of his own, 
which, however, is rather detrimental 
than ufeful to his elaborate work, which 
is printed with great neatnefs and on good 
paper. : 
GEOGRAPHY. a 
« Allgemeine Ueberficht des Herzog- 
thums Steyermark,”’ &c. &c. Von Jos. 
M. ven LICHTENSTERN. 8vo. Wien. 
3799. General Survey of the Duchy of 
Styria, with regard to its Geographical 
State, &c. &c. This elaborate work, 
from which we fhall make fome extracts 
in a future number of our magazine, af- 
fords ample information concerning the 
hiftory of the country, as well as the 
Styrian literature, and is a honourable. 
proof of the great diligence with which 
the author has profecuted his invefiiga- 
tions. 
‘“¢ Nachrichten und Bemerkungen uber 
den AlgierifchenStaat.”” Alcona,1798. 8vo. 
Account of, and Obferyaticns upon, the 
State of Algiers; with a Map and co- 
loured Plates. ‘This claflical. work con- 
tains a great deal of highly interefting 
information, which is to be met with 
neither in Shaw, nor in the works of 
any other traveller who has vifited the 
African ftates. A tranflation of this va- 
luable work being in hand, we deem it 
fuperflucus*to prove eur opinion of its 
claflical merits by an analyfis of its con- 
tents, which would take up more room 
than we can fpare confiftently with the 
confined limits of our retrofpect. 
‘¢ Die Ebene von Troja,”” &c. &c. Von 
CVG. Benz.’ Neu strelitz: 1798. 
pp- xXxvi, and 706; 8vo. 
Troy, after Count Choifeul Gouffier and 
other Travellers ; together with a Trea- 
tife of Major Miullerof Gottingen, &c. 
&c. with Maps. Mr. Lenz has fur- 
nifhed the lovers of geography, in this 
work, witha collection of the moft im- 
portant Inveftigations of the geographical 
ficuation of a {pot which has been ren- 
dered famous by one of the moft memora- 
ble events of antiquity. ~The locality of 
the Ilias has been inveftigated of late by 
different literati. Le Chevalier was th 
firft who fuccefsfully explored the fpot 
where Troy formerly food, He had, at 
different times, inveftigated this coaft of 
Afia Minor, partly in company with 
Choifeul Geuther, and partly by. him- 
The Plain of - 
q 
Retrofpe® of Cérmat Literature...Geography.  ~ 
felf, and made feveral important. difce- 
veries. Urged by the repeated requefts. 
of his friends at Edinburgh, he read his 
defcription of the plain of Troy to the 
fociety of arts and {ciences of that place. 
Profeffor Dalzel tranflated this delfcrip+ 
_tion into the Englifh language, and it was 
afterwards inferted into the Tranfaétions 
of the Society of Edinburgh. Prof. Dal- 
ze] having communicated a copy of this 
de{cription to Prof. Heyne, of Gottin- 
gen, the latter publifhed, in the year 1792, 
a German tranflation of it, together with 
criticai annotations, additions, and a pre- 
face. The inveftigations of Choifenl, and 
of his fellow-travellers, and their draw- 
ings of the moft remarkable obje€is which 
they examined on the fpot, were origt- 
nally defigned for a fecond volume of the 
Voyage Pittore(que. A fortunate coin-- 
cidence of circumftances put the fe€tion _ 
of Troy into the hands of German Hite- - 
rai. Mir. Lenz obtained pofieffion of 
this defcription, and of other papers re- 
lating to the~ fame objeét, and thus was 
enabled to publifh the prefent elaborate 
and highly interefting compofition. ‘This. 
work alfucontains “ }. Dryant’s Deferip-- 
tion of Troy and of its environs, after 
Homer, and a treatife of Major Miller 
of Gottingen, which throws much light 
upon this difficult fubjeét, Le Cheva-- 
lier’s map, as correéted by the Major, ex- 
hibits an excellent reprefentation of “Froy 
and its environs. : : 
«““Fragmente weber Italien,” &e. &e. 
Vol. I. and FI. pp..390, and-3455 1796 
Fragments on [taly ; extraéted from the 
Journals of a young German. Thefe frag, 
ments rife far fuperior to the great num- 
ber of travels in Italy which have been. 
publifhed of late, containing neither a tire- 
fome defcription of places which have 
been’ defcribed again and again, nor a 
newly-vamped catalogue of the works of 
art and the antiquities of that country. 
Their chief objeét is to diffufe.a more - 
accurate knowledge of the manner of 
thinking, and the national genius of the 
Italians. The author, who difplays tafte 
and judgment, and a more than ccmmon 
impartiality, connected with fuperior ta- 
lents for obfervation, having refided, in- 
italy during the mofi memorable epocha, - 
namely, in the years 96 and 97, which 
diftinguithes itfelf in a peculiar manner by 
the remarkabie italian war and the revo~ 
lution which it produced, and of which the 
author was an eye-witnefs, It will be ob- 
Vious toour readers, that thefe fragments 
mufl relate many fa€ts, ferving to folve va-. 
Flous, political enigmas, and to develope 
( many 
