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work of confiderable refearch, written 
in a plain ftyle. It may be mentioned 
as a circumitance to the credit of this 
work, that the author, in the remarks 
which he occafionally introduces, dif- 
covers moderate principles, and a candid 
fpirit. Weare forry that we cannot fay 
the fame concerning another ~vork 
of the fame clafs, the Rev. Mr. New- 
come’s “ Hiftory of the Ancient and 
Royal Foundation called the Abbey of St. 
the writer feems to have con- - 
Alban :”’ 
verfed with the antiquities of the aobey, 
till he has imbibed all the bigotry of one 
of its ancient abbots. Mr. TomKIns’s 
«Tour in the Ifle of Wight” is an 
amufing and elegant work, beautifully 
printed, and embellifhed with eighty 
views, which are, on the whole, well 
executed. We have alfo to announce a 
third volume of a work, mentioned in 
our laft retrofpeét, Mr. HuTCHINSON’S 
valuable ‘¢ Hiftory of Cumberland.” 
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. } 
The philofophical enquirer into human 
nature will find ample fcope for fpecula- 
tion, and the idle reader much amufe- 
ment, in M. VAILLANT’s “ New Tra- 
vels into the interior parts of Africa :” 
the werk abounds with curious facts, 
colle€ted, as far as appears, from actual 
obfervation, tending to place uncivilized 
man in a more pleafing light than that in 
which he has hitherto been viewed. Mr. 
Srorsere’s * Travels through Ger- 
many, Switzerland, Italy, and Sicily,” 
well tranflated by Mr. HoLcrort, is 
a very valuable work, in which narrative 
and fpeéulation are happily united, and 
in which the writer has difplayed much 
knowledge, learning, and tafte. Dr. 
Towwnson’s “ Travels in Hungary,” 
though not elaborately written, will be 
found, on the whole, a pleafing produc- 
tien: the narrative part is lively and 
pleafant, but fometimes a little too luxu- 
riant; the botanical defcriptions fhow 
{cientific information, and the reflections 
are judicious and liberal. Some ufeful 
information may be gathered from Mr. 
Wansey’s “ Journal of an Excurfion 
to the United States of North America ;” 
but the work muft be read with caution, 
for the author feems to have entertained 
iliiberal prejudices, and to be determin- 
ed, at all events, to difcourage emigra- 
tion. While multitudes of travellers are 
vifiting foreign countries, it is pleafing 
to obferve, that our own ifland, fo abun- 
dant in objects of philofophical enquiry, 
is not negleéted. The naturalift, and the 
man of tafte, will be much gratified with 
garden at Ipfwich. 
the perufal of Mr. AIKIN’s * Journal 
of a Tour through North Wales and 
Part of Shropfhire, with Obfervations on 
Mineralogy, and other.branches of Natu- 
ral Hiftory :’’ the exterior feenery o: this 
richly varied country is defcribea with 
chara eriftic propriety and claffical ele- 
gance, and ils interior contents are exa- 
mined with the difcriminating eye of 
{cience. 
NATURAL HISTORY.» 
The botanical department of Natural 
Hiiftory has received valuable accetfions,) 
in the material additions which, ina new 
edition, are made to Dr. WITHERING’S 
“ Arrangement of Britifh ‘Plants ;’’ -a 
work which is far fuperior to any thing 
of the fame kind before publifhed.. Ma- 
ny good obfervations, and fome new re- 
marks on graffes, will be found in Abrius 
Botanicus Gippovienfis, a fyKematic enu- 
meration of the plants in a botanical 
Another elegant 
publication in this clafs is, Mr. Lam- 
BERT’s “ Defcription of the Genus Cin- 
chona,”’ illuftrated by figures ; an impor- 
tant genus, comprehending all the trees 
which afford the Peruvian, and other 
fimilarly medicinal barks. Mineralogifts 
will acknowledge themfelves indebted to 
the editor of * Specimens of Britifh 
Minerals, feleéied from the cabinet of 
Mr. Rasoieicu, of Menabilly, in Corn- 
wall;” a publication, in which are given 
engraved reprefentations of above a 
hundred fpecimens of tin and copper 
ores, and other mineral produétions. 
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 
The unfuccefsfulnefs of former theo- 
rifts, in attempting to explain, from na-- 
tural caufes, the formation and prefent. 
ftru€ture of the earth, has not repreffed 
the fpirit of conjecture. Mr. Howarpn, 
in his ‘¢ Striptural Hiftory of the Earth, 
and of Mankind, compared-with the 
Cofmogonies, &c. of Ancient Nations,” 
has very ingenicufly attempted tooverturn 
the fyftems of philofophers, ancient and 
modern, on this fubjeét, and to explain, 
by atheory of his own, the Mofaic ac- 
count of the creation: this writer has 
fucceeded better in pulling down than in 
building up. We turn with more fatif- 
faétion to the experimentalift, and have 
sgreat pleafure in mentioning the impor- 
tant difcovery of a method of producing” 
artificial cold, to a degree hitherto un- 
known, by fucceffive diffolutions of dif- 
ferent falts in the fame menftruum, de- 
{cribed at large in Mr: WaALKER’s 
** Account of fome remarkable Difco- 
veries 5’ @ work which has made an 
important 

