1801.] 
The mot interefting literary morceau 
which has appeared in-Germany during 
the prefent year, is Korzesvur’s Narras 
tive of his Adventures in Roffia, and his 
Extraordinary Exile into Siberia. It is in- 
titled “* The moff Wonderful Year of my 
Liye; and a tranflation may confidently 
be expected to appear in: England. 
The French artit Tourer, and the 
Auftrian Major ScHwarz, who now re- 
fides at Vienna with Count von FRigss, 
and is worthy, on account of his extenfive 
knowledge, and the amiablenefs of his 
mariners, to be the companion of a man, 
who ti himfelf and-others fets more value 
on the endowments of the mind, than the 
pofleffion of millions, have been making 
important refearches at Athens. - Some 
fears, however, are entertained of the fafe- 
ty of Tourel. An English traveller, of 
the name of TWEDDEL, has been murder- 
ed by his Greek fervant, and buried by his 
countrymen in an ancient Temple of ‘The- 
feus. Proteflor CaRLyYySLE has. received 
his papers. . | 
Citizen ANDRE Micuavux, thinking he 
could not render a greater fervice to his - 
country than by tranfporting thither the. 
uferul plants which grow in analogous 
climates, firft. vilited Syria, Babylonia, 
and Perfias He found, among the natural 
productions of thele countries, a multitude 
of kitchen garden plants,ornamental plants, 
and others for fodder, cultivated amongft 
Europeans, and he brought from. thence 
new riches. On his return, in 1785, he 
fet out for North America. He efablith- 
ed two gardens, one near New York, the 
other near Charleflown, to raife there the 
plants which he might colle&t. He after- 
wards traverfed North America for eleven 
years together, from the Bahama Iles 
and the Cape of Florida, to Hudf{on’s Bay, 
that is ‘to fay, from the. 27th to the- 58th 
degree, or in a {pace of 750 leagues, He 
did not make'this tour along the coafts ; 
he penetrated into the country more than 
400 leagues fram eaft to welt ; he lived 
with the favages, whofe affections he cain- 
ed, whofe cares he repaid, and who aflited 
him in his refearches. -During this inter- 
val, he fent to France many chefts of feeds, 
and a great number of fhoots of trees, 
moft of which are now cultivated 
through all Europe. Among thefe trees 
were diftinouifhed an ilicium, the aromatic 
fruit of which will ferve the fame pur- 
poles as that known by the-name of the 
ftellated avis of China (axis etoilé de la 
Chine}; a larch tree, the wood of which 
‘is ufed.in building 3 a new neighbouring 
kind of quinquina, and witich will per. 
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haps fupply its place; and, laftly, many 
magnolia, a pavia, a rhododendron, an 
acacia, which already are the ornaments 
of our gardens. On his return, Citizen 
André Michaux wes employed in putting 
his colle€tions in order, andin drawing up 
an abridged Relation of- his Voyage, ahd 
siving an Hiftory of the Plants of Ameri- 
ca. Government having nominated him 
to form a part in the expedition of Captain 
Baupin, he has left to his fon, who had 
accompanied him in one of his jvurnies, 
the care of fuperintending the ‘printing of 
his manufcripts. The Hiftory of the 
Oaks of America was in the prefs at the 
time of his departure, and has been lately 
publifhed. It is written in French 3. the 
botanical phrafes only are in Latin. It 
contains twenty fpecies, and a number of 
remarkable varieties; arranged in methodi- 
ealorder, according to the form of the leaves 
and the annual or biennial fruétification ; 
and characterifed in a fure and. invariable 
manner. All tnefe fpecies have been defigned 
in their different flates, by. Citizen Re- 
DOUTE, whole talents are well known to 
painters and naturahfts ; aud elegantly 
engraved by Citizens SeLuier and PLeE; 
making in the whole thirty fix plates. At 
every {pecies, Citizen Michaux has care- 
fully marked the manner of cultivating 
it, the foil which fuits it, the ufes to be 
drawn from it, and the diftriéts of France 
where it would be advantageous to natu- 
ralize it. Among thefle fpecies are fome 
abfolutely unknown; to others ce annex- 
ed new and interefting obfervations. The 
following article on the maritime ‘oak or 
green o«k of Carolina, may give an idea 
of the obfervations which accompany the 
defcription of divers fpecies.—** This tree 
srows from Lower Virginia to Florida, 
and the Miffiffippi, along the coafts, on 
the ifles and the tracts exposed to the ftormy 
witids of the ocean. The lower countries 
of North America are lands of a new for- 
mation. ‘The farface of the foil is a fan- 
dy layer, on a very deep mafs of argill, 
The maritime oaks here acquire a rapid 
growth, becaufe the fibrous roots with 
which they are provided in their adclefcent 
ftate find in a moveable fand the facility 
of fpreading in alldireflions. In propor- 
tion as they arrive at adult age, the prin- 
cipal roots reach the claysy boitom, 
where they ‘imbibe a nourilhment which 
fupports their vigour for many centuries, 
and renders them capable of refifting the 
impetuofity of the wiuds, and of fupport- 
ing the heat of the fun. From Virginia 
to the extremity of Florida, the traveller 
often perceives this ilolated tree, preferv- 
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