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to the ufual cuftom, makes ufe of the 
following appropriate lines fromThomfon, 
by way of motto: 
s¢ ________The fall of kings, 
The rage of nations, and the crufh of ftates, 
Move’not the man, who, from the world 
efcap’d, 
In ftill retreats and flow’ry folitudes 
To nature’s voice attends, from month to 
month, 
And day to day, thro’ the revolving year.” 
«¢ Effai fur l’Hiftoire Naturelle,”? &c. 
An Effay on the Natural Hiftory of the 
Quadrupeds of the Province of Paraguay, 
by Don Felix d’Azzara, Commodore in the 
Spanifh Navy, &c. tranflated from the un- 
printed Manufcript of the Author, by M. 
L. E. Moreau S. Mery, Counfellor 
of State, 2 vol. 8vo. Paris. 
To fuch as ftudy natural hiftory, and 
are anxious to become acquainted with the 
productions of Spanifh America, this 
work cannot fail to produce eyual delight 
and infiru&ion. Our limits will not per- 
mit us to enter into detail, but we cannot 
omit fome mention of one of the noble 
quadrupeds to be found at the end of 
vol. tr. The city of Buenos Ayres, 
founded in 1535, having been abandoned 
with great precipitation; it was found im- 
practicable to carry away ali the Anda- 
Jufian horfes in the neighbourhood. On 
the return of the Spaniards, in 1580, they 
found they had mulriplied to an aftonifh- 
ing degree, and their progeny is now almoft 
innumerable, the race being extended as 
far as Patagonia. They are alfo to be 
feen to the north of the river of La Plata. 
Thefe horfes move about in numerous 
herds, confilting frequently of ten thoufand 
individuals. On perceiving their domettic 
brethren, they immediately run towards 
them, and engage them, by their carefles, 
to leave the protection of man, and become 
as wild and as free as themfelves., 
Weare told that the Indians find means 
to render thefe horfes tame, and eat their 
flefh: the Spaniards decline this ; but, 
we are affured, that in thole parts where 
wood is {carce, ** they k I] them in order 
to ufe their bones for the purpole of 
fire!” ' 
€¢ Flore Parifienne,”’ &c. The Parifian 
Flora ; or, a Defcription of the Charac- 
ters of all the Plants which grow natu- 
rally in the Neighbourhood of Paris, dif- 
tributed after the Manner adopred in the 
Garden of Plants of that City, with the 
Indication of their French, Latin, and 
vulgar Names, &c. &c. by L. B. F——, 
a vol. yo. 
MontTuiy Mac. No. 82, 
This work is fomewhat on the plan of 
Curtis’s Flora, which contains a lift of 
the plants, &c. growing in the neighbour- 
hood of London,although on a far different 
{cale. It ought to be remarked, however, 
that the author hath not completely ful- 
filled his intentions, for this puvlication 
does not contain a complete lift of the 
Parifian plants, mahy.of which are omit- 
ted, while a number of thofe indigenous 
todifferent places are inferted. He has alfo 
introduced a barbarous vocabulary, and 
it is only by a fecond edition that errors 
of this kind can be correéted. 
‘s Phenoménes d’Hiftoire Naturelle,’° 
&c. Phenomena of Natural Hiftory, con- 
taining an Account of the Geftation, of 
Conftantine, one of the Lionefles belong- 
ing to the Menagerie of the Garden of 
Plants ; a Defcription of all the Quadru- 
peds under the Care of Citizen Felix Caf- 
fal, &¢. intended for the Ufe of Strangers, 
and fuch as frequent the Mufeum of Na- 
tural Hiftory, by J. B. ViGNieR, a Man 
of Letters; a néw Edition, correéted and 
augmented. 
The author of this pamphlet is alfo the 
perfon to whom we are indebted for the 
work, entitled «* ’Hiftoire d’Eléphans ;”” 
Hiftory of the Elephant, of which three 
editions have been publifhed in fucceffion, 
The ftyle of the prefent publication is 
negligent, but the details which it con- 
tains cannot fail to prove interefting to 
the naturalift. Buffon, trufting to report, 
believed that the time occupied by the 
geftation of the lionefs confifted of fix 
months ; but it appears, from the obfer-~ 
vations of E,J. B. Vignier, that it amounts 
only to one hundred and ten days. 
“* We perceive by the facts before us 
(fays the author) that this celebrated na- 
turalift is erroneous, when he afferts, after 
Gefiuer, that the Lionefs brings forth in 
the fpring, and produces only once ina 
year; the proof of the contrary is now 
evident: Conftantine is at this prefent 
moment big for the third time; and it is 
only fix months fince, fhe was fo be- 
fore,”” 
<¢ Traité de Ja Phyfique Végétale des 
Bois,’ &c. A Treatife onthe Natural 
Hiftory of Trees, and the principal Ope- 
rations of the Foreft, &c. to which is 
added the Proportions of Timber for the 
Marine, after the Manner of Decimals, by 
Citizen Gouvse, Confervator of the third 
Arrondiffement, Paris, 1 vol. 8vo. 
This work is divided into thirty-fix 
chapters, in which the author treats :=— 
1. Of the anatomy; and 
2, Of the maladies of trees. 
4K. 3. Of 
