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VARIETIES, Literary anp PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domefiic and Foreign. — 
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R. Haywey has been for fome time 
| engaged upon a Life of the late Mr. 
Cowper, the Poet ; and we underftand his 
work will fpeedily iffue from the prefs in 
an elegant form. f 
The fame gentleman is alfo engaged in 
a publication, which appears at Chichef- 
ter, under the title of ** BanLaps.” 
Sir Wm. OusELEY is employed, dur- 
ing the leifure hours of his retirement in 
South Wales, on a Tranflation of the 
Great Tarikh; or Chronicle of Tabari; 
whom Mr. Ockley ftyles the Lzwy of the 
Arabians, and to whole excellence Po- 
cocke, D’Herbelot, Erpenius, Dr. Hyde, 
and all the moft learned Orientalifts have 
borne witnefs. Of the original work, 
which was written in Arabic, forne frag- 
ments only now remain; but an admira- 
ble Perfian Tranflation was made in the 
tenth century of the Chriftian era, (a few 
years after the death of Tabari), anden- 
riclied with fo much curious additional 
matter, extracted from the ancient records 
ef the Jews, the Perfian Magi or Fire- 
worfhippers, and the Muffulmans, that M. 
D’Herbelot prefers this verfion to the 
original—(See Bibl, Orient. Art. Thaba- 
ri). ,Mr. Gibbon, who well knew how to 
_ appreciate the value of fuch a work (in 
_ Chap. LI. Note 33, of his Roman Em- 
pire), fays, ‘* Amidft our meagre rela- 
tions,.I muff regret that D’Herbelot has 
not found and'uied a Perfian tranflation of 
Tabari, enriched, as he fays, with many 
' extracts from the native hiftorians of the 
Ghebers or Magi.”’ The light which this 
manulcript throws upon the Hiftory, not 
only of the Perfians, but of the Arabs, 
the Jews, and other Eaftern Nations, and 
» its utility to thofe who ftudy the geogra- 
phy and antiquities of Afia, have induced 
Sir Wm. Oufeley to undertake the labo. 
rious tafk of tranflation. The work is 
voluminous, and the expences of print- 
ing confiderable; yet we truft he will , 
_ Meet with fuch encouragement as may in- 
duce him to offer this ancient and valuable 
record to the public. , 
Dr. HERSCHEL, in a paper read before 
the Royal Society on the 5th of May, 
points out the advantage of diftinguifhing 
the two new celeftial bodies from the 
larger planets and comets by fome ap- 
propriate name ;) and.as thefe are {caresly 
_Montuny Mag, No. 88, 
perceivable fram minute fixed ftars, even, 
by good telefcopes, he has adopted the, 
term afferoids todenote them. He thinks 
that more celeftial bodies of the cla{s of 
afteroids remain at prefent. concealed, but 
which may hereafter be difcovered by. 
means of obfervatories furnifhed with fixed 
inftruments. ) 
Archdeacon Patgy has in hand a 
work on Natural Religion, which is ex- 
pected to make its appearance early in the 
winter, 
The Rev. J. SENNETT propofes to pubs 
lith by fub{cription an abridged Tranfla- 
tion, in fix volumes, o€tavo, of Tirabofci’s 
Hiftory of Italian Literature, publithed at 
Modena, in fifteen volumes, quarto. 
«Mis. GriFFirus and, Mrs. Cosway 
.are at Paris, for the purpofe of collecting 
and preparing materials for:publithing in » 
London, a fplendid account of the Louvre. 
Mefirs, POLFREEMAN, of Long Acres’ 
in conjunétion with Meffrs. ALLEN, FEs- 
SENDER, and Gray,» have purchafed the 
patent right of Mr. Hawkins, and lately 
completed. a Floating Water-mill, which, ° 
by permiffion of the Hon. Board of Navi- 
gation, is ftationed between London and 
Blackfriar’s Bridges. The) fimplicity of 
this invention renders a long defcription 
fuperfluous. It confifts merely in apply~ 
ing the force of two or three water-wheelg 
on each fide of a barge, ar any other vef- 
fel better caiculated to contain the interior 
part of themachinery. 
A work upon the Ancient and Modern . 
Weights, Meafures and Money of France, 
with their Ratio to the Weights, Mea- 
fures, and Money of England, is announce 
ed to be publifhed by {ub{cription. 
The Rev. Joun Hotxuanp, ot Bolton 
in the Moors, will fpeedily publith Effays 
on Ancient Jewifh, Grecian, and Roman 
Hiftory, with Queftions for Examination, 
for the Ufe of young Perfons ; to be fuc- 
ceeded, if duly encouraged, by Effays on 
Ecclefiattical and Modern Hiftory, conf- 
dered in Periods and contemplating the 
Arts of Peace as well as of War. 
The third edition of Mr, BUTLER’ 
Geographical and Biographical Exerciles 
is now ready tor fale. 
Mr. Epwarp Jones, of Wepre-hall, 
in Flinthire, has found that moles, which 
have ufually been confidered as deftructive 
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