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— [Sept. 1, 
VARIETIES, Lirerary anv PuILosopHicaL: 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
*,* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
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R. WittManN, of the Royal Artil- 
lery, who accompanied Brigadier 
General Koehler’s Military Miffion from 
Conftantinople into Syria and Egypt, and 
who acted occafionally as Phyfician to the 
Grand Vizier, and had the medical care 
of the miffion, is preparing to publiff& an 
account of his interefting Travels in 
Turkey, Syria, and Egypt, including a 
Meteorological Journal, and Remarks 
-and Obfervations on the Plague, and 
on the other Difeafes of thofe Countries, 
accompanied with plates. 
‘Mr, Aixin’s Tranflation of DENoN’s 
grand work relative to Egypt, will 
be publifhed early in September. The 
plates will be fac-fimiles of the originals, 
and, for the accommodation of various 
claffes of purchafers, a quarto edition, in 
two volumes, and an octavo edition, in 
THREE volumes, will be publifhed at the’ 
fame time. 
Dr.. PRIESTLEY intends to print imme- 
diately two confiderable works, viz. a 
Continuation of his Ecclefiaftical Hiftory 
till the prefent time : and Notes on all the 
Books of Scripture. 
Profeffor Porson has nearly ready, a 
Supplement to the Notes and Preface of 
his firft edition of the Hecuba of Euripi- 
des, which addition will render it the fame 
as that lately printed at Cambridge. 
Dr. Cromsiz, of Highgate, has ne rly 
ready for publication a work ‘entitled the 
Etymology and Syntax of the Englifh 
Language explained and illuftrated, in one 
ottavo volume. 
As early as poffible in the year 1803 
will be publithed, the Hiftory and Anti- 
quities of the County of Surrey, by the 
lateOweN Manninc, B.A. Vicar of 
Godelming, and Rettor of Pepperharrow, 
in the faid county. The part which had 
received Mr. Manning’s finifhing hand, 
will make one volume in folio, and will 
be illuftrated with a map formed from the 
Domefday Survey. This part will be putto 
the prefs immediately, and will be publith- 
ed as {oon as poffible, at thé price of three 
guineas for thecopies on {nallpaner, and 
four guineas for thofeon jarge paper. His 
other colle&tions, it is fuppofed, will be 
comprized in another volume, and be rea- 
dy to follow the former in the courfe of the 
year 1804. 
A new edition in quarto of the Georgics 
is announced for publication, by SamMuUEL 
Hopkinson, B. D. late Fellow of Clare. 
hall, with copious Englifh Notes, and 
Dryden’s Tranflation fubjoined, in the 
fame manner as Dr. Samuel Clarke’s Latin 
Verlion is printed under the Original of 
Homer, . 
Dr. RoBert Townson, Author of 
Travels through Hungary, of the Philo- 
fophy of Mineralogy, and of Traéts and 
Obfervations in Natural Hiftory and Phy- 
fiology, has undertaken to write the Coun= 
ty Hiftory of Yorkthire ; a work never 
yet attempted, and which, from the ex- 
tent and variety of its fubjeét, cannot fail 
to prove interefting and ufeful. It will be 
comprized in three quarto volumes, illuf- 
trated by maps and engravings, and the 
price will be fix guineas. 
The Rev. Mr. Binctey, F. L. S. (of 
St. Peter’s College, Cambridge) known 
as the author of a Tour in North Wales, 
has in the prefs a work on natural 
hiftory, under the very appropriate title 
of «* Animal Biography.” It is to be 
comprized in three volumes oftavo, and, 
though arranged fyftematically, is in all 
refpects popular, confifting entirely of 
anecdotes and facts on the manners and 
economy of the whole animal creation.— 
As an introduétion to a fafhionable ftudy, 
this work will fill a place long unoccupied. 
Mr. Bingley’s volumes will take in all 
the material and authentic anecdotes re- 
corded by natural hiftoriatis and travel. 
lers during the laft two centuries, includ- 
ing Le Vaillant, Buffon, Pennant, Sonnini, 
Shaw, Bruce, Church, Cook, Marchand, 
Park, Thunberg, &c. &c. ‘The number 
of volumes of travels, &c. that have been 
confulted, has been nearly a thoufand. 
The author of ‘Evenings at Home’ 
has finifhed a {mall work entitled the 
Wooptanp Companion; or, a De- 
{cription of Britifh Trees, with fome Ac-_ 
count of their Ufes. It will be iluftrated 
with twenty-eight copper- plates. ° 
Mr. THomMas Fenwick, collijerya 
viewer, of Dipton, near Newcaftle, is 
printing a fecond edition of his ** Effays on 
Pragtical Mechanics.’’ He has been ine 
duced to add fome ‘* Obfervations.on the 
Power of Horfes, and on the Threfhing- 
Machine,’’ in order to render the work 
more extenfively ufeful. F 
The Rev. JosHua Lanwoop, Chap- 
lain in the Navy, author of ‘* Err&tics,"* 
&c. &c. is preparing for {peedy publica 
tion a copious work, entitled ‘* Nautical 
Anecdotes.” It is avowedly a compila- 
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