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GroGRAPHY, VOYAGES, AND TRAVELS: 
Few important acquiftions have been 
made in geography, the knowledge of fo- 
reign countries and peoples, and mathe- 
matical geography, as far as relates to 
the fcientific:furm. | 
Baron ven Zach continues to diffufe, ina 
lis “¢ -Monatliche Correipendenz,” &c. 
the neweft intelligence relative to aftrono- 
my and geceraphy, partly derived from 
an extenive corre!pondence. with the mot 
eminent aflronomers and mathematicians 
of Europe. The * Geographical Ephe- 
merides,”” publifhed by Bertuch, likewitfe 
maintain thei reputation. The extracis 
there given trom the beft and lateft voy- 
ages and travels, and the copies of the 
newelt maps, wich a critical account of 
them, cannot fail to be very attractive. 
In thegeographical department, indeed, 
much cannot be expected till the final con- 
clufion of a general peace. The lover 
of entertaining relations of travels, how- 
ever, will find, among the productions of 
tone Eatier-fair, feveral works that will 
prove acveptable to him, as, for inftance, 
Agnpr’s © Bruchfucke ciner Reife ven 
Baireuth bis Wien; Fragments of a 
Journey from Bairéuth to Vienna, which 
has been publifhed hy Graf, in Leipzig. 
Von EcceErR's (who belonged to the 
Danuh Embafly at the Congrefs of Raf 
tadt} “*Reife durch das Sudliche Deutfch- 
land, die Elfafs, und Schweitz, in 1793— 
993° Travels through the South of Ger- 
many, Alface, and Switzerland, in 1798 
—g9, Copenhagen, Storch—lays open 
the nefarious deeds of the French Direc- 
cory. , 
The “* Facebuch uber Rom,” of Fre- 
~DERICA Baun, the poetefs, 2 val. Zu- 
rich, Orel!, defcribes the fiate of Rome.a 
fhort time preceding the irruption of the 
French Republicans. Y 
Kuepe’s ** Reife auf beiden Ufern des 
Rheins;”” Journey on both Banks of the 
Rhine, in the Autumn of 1800, Frankfort, 
Efslinger, gives an account of the ftate. 
of the new departments of France, formed 
of provinces conquered from Germany en 
the left bank of that river. 
Ina publication, mtitled “* Kofmopo- 
litifche Wanderengen durch Prewficu,” 
&c. Cofmopolitical Wanderings through 
Pruffia, Livonia, Coufland, Siefia, and 
Galicia, 3 vol. Dantzig, Trofchel,- we 
-may acquire a more accurate knowledge 
of countries with which we are but im- 
perfectiy acquainted. : 
It is incomprehenfible to us, how a 
Leipzig boekfelier could have the effron- . 
Retrofpect of German, Literature—Eafier-fair, 1801. 
tery to announce a third volume of Tau- 
riniuss Vravels. A certain Robrig like- 
wile feems willing to tread in the footfleps. 
of the noted Damberger; for his book, 
«« Schickfalen und Reifen durch Europa, 
von Holland. nach Liffabon,” &c. Ad- 
ventures and. Travels in Europe, from 
Holland to Lifbon, Italy, Africa, Afia, 
&c. bears in its very front the apocry- 
phal mark of ,reprobation. 
The «* Travels through Upper Germa- 
ny, the Mountainous Parts of Salzburg,’ 
c. and “ A Mineralogical Journey in 
the Harz,’” may be conifidered as a real 
gain to natural hiftory. 
SCHMIDT’s ** Reife durch einige Schwe- 
difche Provinzen bis zu den fudlichen 
Wohnplatzen der Nomadifchen Lappen,” 
&c.— Travels through fome Swedifh Pro- 
vinces, as far as the fouthern Dwelling- 
places of the Nomadical Laplanders, with 
beautiful Views, drawn from Nature by 
Gilberg—-( Hamburg, Hoffman)—deferves 
to be particularly diftinguifhed from the 
crowd of travels that were announced in 
the Hafter-catalogue. 
One of the moit interefting produétiens 
of this kind, however, does not at all ap- 
pear in the Catalogue; Gofchen, the pub- 
lither, being too proud to infert in that 
litt. the feleét works of .which he has 
the copyright. KuTTNER, advantageoufly 
known to the German public by his ear- 
lier Travels through England, has given 
us a *‘Reife durch Deutfchland,”’ &c. Tra- 
vels through Germany, Denmark, Swe- 
den, Norway, and a Part of Italy, in the 
Years 1797—9, with cuts, 4 vols. which, » 
whether we confider the form or the mat- 
ter, may be efteemed as a real addition to 
the ftock of German literature. Kuttner. 
who made this journey as companion end 
conduétor of a, young Englifhman, and 
had well qualified himfelf for the under- 
‘aking by a previous perufal of all the 
preceding fources of information, omits 
every thing which other travellers had al- 
ready faithfully defcribed. Notwithftand- 
ing this, the firt volume contains an inte- 
reiting view of Hamburg, and the third 
a faithful fketch of Vienna, totally contra- 
dictery to other celebrated tourifts, and 
written with the genuine fpirit of a Cof- 
mopolite. Wherever any thing ufeful-was 
to be feen, he defcribes it with the accu- 
racy and perfpicuity peculiar to ‘him. 
For inftance, in his account of the mines 
of Freiberg, he does not merely mention: 
that amalgamation is ufed in the refining 
of the ore, but gives fuch a defcription 
of the whole proces, that every cultivated 
readers 
