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the inveftigation of African geography. 
We have before us a letter from the learn- 
ed Profeflor Borricer, Provoft of the 
_ Univerfity of Weimar, (near which place 
Damberger now refides). in which he ob- 
ferves, that ‘¢ after a {trict and impartial 
inquiry it has been found, that Damber- 
ger is a downright honeft man, and has 
never wilfully deviated from the truth.” 
After all, there is no doubt but Damber- 
ger has fallen into many ferious errors 
from an attention to old and incorrect maps 
fince his return, and by endeavouring to 
fill up all the parts of his narrative re- 
{pecting points which, from their diftance 
of time, muft neceflarily have efcaped his 
memory.* 
Mr. GeorGe Mason is employed upon 
a Supplement to Johnfon’s Dictionary, 
wherein the palpable errors of that work 
are rectified, and the omiffions fupplied. 
Mr. WorpDswokru has in the prefs a 
fecond volume of Lyrical Ballads. 
Mr. Hecror M’NervL will fpeedily 
publifh two {mall volumes of poetry, 
chiefly in the Scottifh dialect, embellifhed’ 
with eight elegant engravings from defigns 
by Stodhart. 
A Pidiure of Modern Loudon, con- 
taining a correét and circumftantial ac- 
count of every object deferving of the 
notice or inquiry of its own inhabi- 
tants or of flrangers, printed on {mall type 
ip a portable fize, and illuftrated by a 
large map of London, is in confiderable 
forwardnels, from the pen of a gentleman 
every way competent to the tafk. 
Mr. Locks’s much approved Common- 
place Books will fpeedy make their ap- 
pearance, adapted to the French and Ita- 
lian languages. 
Mr. Bissirr’s Grand National Direc- 
tory proceeds with fpirit, and will be a 
valuable {pecimen of the flate of the arts 
and manners in Great Britain et the pre- 
{cnt period. 
* Mr Martini, the publifher of thefe 
Travels, has inferted in the Jena Review, a 
complete refutation of the objetions ftarted 
tothem, and adds, that Mr. Damberger had 
been queftioned by feveral learned men, re- 
{petting the accounts he has given of his tra- 
vels, and that his anfwers had always been 
found confiftent and free from the leaft ap- 
pearance of impofture; that he intends to 
fubmit to a further oral examination by 
Mefirs. Bottiger and Bertuch, in Weimar. 
Mr. Damberger has likewife repeatedly of- 
fered to his publifher to confirm the reality 
of his travels in general, and of particular 
circumftances, by an appeal to undeniable 
Duich teftimonies, : 
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Literary and Philsfophical Intelligence. 
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Thirty-fix of the Sermons of the late 
Dr. W. Srevens are in the prefs, and 
will be publifhed in three volumes o€¢tavo, 
early in the {pring. 
A new, corrected, and enlarged Eng- 
lith Atlas, is announced for publication 
inparts, by Mr, C. Smiru ; and from the. 
fpecimens we have feen, it bids fair to 
rival its predeceffors in the public eftima-. 
tion. It will be completed in fifteen num- 
bers, at 6s. 6d. each. | 
Mr. Buarr, of the Lock Hofpital and | 
Finfbury Difpenfary, affifted by feveral 
other refpeCtable furgeons, has been fome 
time engaged in writing a comprehenfive 
Syftem of Medical and Operative Surgery, 
adapted to the prefent improved practice 
at the London Hofpitals, &c. 
Mr. Carey, whofe recent production 
on the Latin Profedy, and various tranfla- 
tions from the French, have been favour- 
ably received by the public, and who has 
given convincing proofs of his typogra- 
phic accuracy in fuperintending the im- 
preffion of Mr. Wakefield’s Lucretius, 
has announced his intention of opening a 
Cla fical Printing-Ofice, wherein his know- 
ledge of languages, together with his long 
practice and approved {kill in correéting 
the prefs, will no doubt prove highly ufe- 
ful to the authors and editors of learned 
works, In addition to the common ty- 
pography, he intends to introduce the 
Stereotype printing, which, from fome 
very promifing experiments, he hopes 
foon to render as ufeful in this country as 
it already isin France. The firlt Stereo- 
type produétion that he propofes to give 
to the public, will be the original texc of 
Anacreen, of which a few copies are to be 
in letters of gold upon fatin, in a fuperb 
and unequalled ftyle of elegance. 
It is an error that deferves to be cor- 
rected, that Dr. GUILLOTIN; the inven- 
tor or reviver of the terrible inftrument 
which bore his name, was one of the firft 
victims of his own contrivance. The 
Doétor, who is a man of remarkably mild 
and pleafant manners, at this time refides 
at No. 116, in the Rue Neuve Roch, at 
Paris, and enjoys very confiderable prac- 
tice and reputation as a phyfician. 
A difcovery has lately been made at 
Omoy, near Beauvais, in France, of two 
vafes filled with gold coins, to the number 
of two thoufand and upwards. ‘They are 
Roman, chiefly of the emperors, from 
Galba to Geta, inclufive; many of them 
beautifully cut, and in perfect preferva- 
tion. They were eagerly feized upon by 
a number of perfons in the neighbourhood, 
who appear to have concealéd fome of the 
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