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taire, Ouvrage periodique.’"— A Topo. 
graphical and Military Memoir, publith- 
ed by the Depdt de la Guerre. 
Many ufetul Treatifes have appeared 
in France, relative to the fubje&t of war, 
but the greater part confift either of {pe- 
ciai applications of the grand fyfem of 
the war arr, fuch as thofe publifhed by 
Puiegue and Guibert, or the develop- 
ment of porticular {yftems, like thofe of 
Tolard, &c. On the prefent occafion, it 
is intended to deferibe every thing necef- 
fary for the fuccets of a great enterprife ; 
and confequently, a complete and detailed 
courfe of the fcience. Four numbers have 
already appeared. . 
In the firft, the authors, who conceal 
their names, but are known to be miii- 
tary men of diftinguifhed reputaticn, have 
given a nomenclature of all the authors, 
both ancient and modern, who have 
written on the art of war. 
In the fecond, we have an analytical 
notice relative to hiftorians, from Herodo- 
tus to Robertfon, 
In the third, there is an account of the 
prefent ftate of topography in Europe, 
with a catalogue of all the charts hitherto 
rendered public; and, 
In the fourth, we are prefented with 
a difcourfe relative to the means of attain- 
ing a knowledge of the {cene of ation. 
In the courfe of this work there is alfo 
to be found, a commentary on the famous 
battle of Leuthen, whence refulted the 
moft decifive events, by reducing the van- 
quifhed army from ninety to thirty thou- 
fand, and reftoring the fword and the 
{ceptre to the hand of Frederick the Great. 
‘© Voyage en Iflande, fait par Ordre de 
S. M. Danoile; contenant des Obferva- 
tions fur les Moeurs et les Ufages des 
Habitans ; une Deicription des Lacs, des 
Riviéres, des Glacie:s. des Sources chaudes 
_etvoicans: desdiverfes Efpéces des Terres, 
Pierres, Foffiles, et Pétrifications, des Ani- 
maux, Poiffons, Infectes, &c. &c. 3; avec 
un Atlas. Tradvit du Dancis par Gau- 
THIER DE LAPEYRonIE, Traducteur des 
Voyages de Pallas.”—-A Voyage to Ice- 
land, undertaken by order of his Majefty 
the King of Denmark ; containing Ob- 
fervations on the Manners and Cuftoms of 
its Inhabitants; a Defcription of the 
Lakes, Rivers, Glaciers, é&c. together 
with an Atlas. Tranflated from the 
Danith by Gauthier de Ia Peyronne, @%, 
s vols. withan Atlas. 
Notwithftanding the curious details re- 
lative to Iceland, which former travellers 
have publifhed, yet the prefent King of 
Denmark, or rather the Prince who aéts 
in his name, deemed it neceffayy to obtain 
new information relative to this difiant 
and fecluded portion of the world. His 
Royal Highnefs accordingly inftruéted the 
Asademy of Sciences of Copenhagen, 
to feleét proper perfons, in order to collect 
the neceflary information relative either 
to the fingular phenomena which might 
prefent themfelves to their view, or con- 
cerning thofe which mankind had enter- 
tained hitherto only vague and incom- 
petent notions. 
_ The choice of this learned body having 
fallen on Meffrs. Olaflen and Foyelfen ; 
they, in their turn, fpared neither paing 
nor enquiries to prefent a de(cription of 
the hittory, both civil and natural of Ice. 
land, in confequence of which this work, 
edited under the fuperintendance of the 
fociety already alluded to, hag been pub- 
Jithed. He 
On this secaficn, the divifion of the 
ifland, fuch as prevails at the prefent mos 
ment, for the political adminifiration is 
here adopted. It is in this order, we are 
prefented with 4 circumftantial account of 
every diftrigt, the form and nature of the 
mountains, the hills, the vallies, the gla- 
cliers, the indications of ancient and mo- 
dern volcanoes, the rivers and rivulets, 
the ftagnant waters and the mineral 
fprings. In addition to this geographical 
fummary, we find many judicious remarke 
on the temperature of the climate, and 
the revolution of the feafons; the nature 
of the foil, the different {pecies of earth, 
ftones, minerals, foffils, and petrifaGtions ; 
in fhort, al] that can be defired relative to 
hufbandry, meadow lands, and the breed- 
ing of domeftic animals. Neither has any 
thing been negleéted concerning the eco- 
nomy of the natives, their manners, or 
the ways of living, in fuch a fingular 
country. 
It appears that Iceland is fituate in 
the North Sea, between the 63d and 67th 
degrees of latitude, is exaétly one hundred 
and thirty common leagues in length, and 
about feventy in breadth. The diftance 
from the Feroe or Faro Iflands, is feventy 
marine leagues, reckoning twenty to a de- 
gree, and but thirty-five from Greenland, 
which, on that fide, is rendered inac- 
ceffible by ice and rocks. 
The ifland itfelf is reprefented as being 
, ) . generally 
