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655 Retrafped? of Dommeftic Literature. —Biagraphy, Voyages; Seo 
fiate of {clence amongf the Turks, the 
Chinele, aud Hincoos, with the medern 
Grez KS j and the fiate of fcience among ft 
the Carifiiak’s in ihe welt, to the end of 
the fiiteenth century. Perted. the third 
contains cre prug:efs of mathematics, from 
the end of the fifteenth certury-to the in~ 
vention of -fhe methed of fluxions ; and 
this comprehends the proyrefs cf analyGs, 
geometry, mecuanics, hy -drodynamics, al- 
tronomy, and optes. “The fori period 
ncludes the p. 0; syets of mathematics, from 
the dilcovery o! fluxions to the prefeat 
fime, containing the dileoveries of all the 
im. fi celebrared mathematicians, with the 
progrefs of pure and mixed mathema- 
fics. 
2 
Mr. DaLsy has Publ ‘a the firft vo- 
lume of «4 Courfe of hatbematics, de- 
Sined for the Ue of ee fica: and Ga- 
‘dets of the "Be al Military College,” of 
ay G7 ay 
5 n 
which he is nominated the Mathematical 
Profefir.. The prefent volume compri‘es 
arithmetic, plane trigonometry, and men- 
furation of furfaces and folids. 
Mr. AiweopD has publithed a * Sup- 
plement” co his Treatife on Arches, wi:ti 
eccafional remarks on the conftruGtion of 
an iron bridge of one arch, propofed to be 
erected over the river Thames, at Lon- 
don. 
BIOGRAPHY. : 
We have not had fo great a treat for 
fome time, as in perufiog Mr. Goon’s 
<< Memoirs of the Life aud Writings of 
Bir. Geddes.” 
The {ubjc& of thefe interefting and va- 
luable memoirs was a man of very pawer- 
fut imtellectual faculties, of various and 
high aitainments. He purfued truth with 
intrepidity; totaily regardlefs of whatever 
obftacies oppofed his progrefs. His caring 
Ceviations from the ordinary track foon 
brought his orthodoxy into fufpicion, and 
of courte the bigot fet him down as an 
infidel. Dr. Geddes was of an irritable 
Gilpehions his feelings were very acute 
aad fenhbie, fo that, although it was not in 
the power of calumny to divert him from 
that cnward courfe which he had choten, 
3¢.was in the power of calumny to make it 
laborious and paintul to him to. puriue it. 
Fbat he did not live to finifh the great 
work which had coft him fo many years 
ef ftudy and of toil, is ever to be regiet- 
ted. It would fo doubt have formed a 
moft valuable claffical commentaty on the 
Bible;.and it is probable, as Mr. God 
juggefts, that.in a revifion he would have 
Jopped cfE fome.cf its prefent objeétionabie 
eccentricities. We are happy that the 
off.e of biographer fhould have falien in.e 
‘fevera!l claffes of its inhabitants. 
fuch able hands. The criticifm and ge- 
neval lit cerary labours of Dr. Geddes are 
enimated fairly and judicioufly, and his 
charac:er is drawn with thet portion of 
partiality, which is not only venial, but 
truly hovoursble to the feelings of his’ 
friend. “Mr. Good ts a man of learning 
and a man of tafe, he was intimately ze- 
quaiat ted with the fulje& of his bio- 
graphy, and is him{elf veried in thefe 
fiudics which diftinguifhed the literary 
charaéier of Dr. Geddes. 
D;., Darwin has found a panegyrift in 
Miis Se WarD, whofe ** Memoirs” of his 
lite are rather calculated to gratify the’ 
fiiends of Dr. Darwin, than the public in 
general. 
Mr. BeRESForp has oru bile a tranf. 
lation of Madame Dg BLUMENTHAL’s 
Ks Life of General De Zieten.” 
ie iubj-ct of this. memoir was one of 
the great Freceick’s molt able and adven- 
turcus generals, -and to whofe valorous 
atchtevetnent he was indebted ter ne {mail 
portion of the military glory which beam- 
ed around his throne As we have alread 
related the molt firtking incidents of De 
Zicten’s life trom the work before us (fee 
page 42 cf the prefent volume) it is un- 
neceflary to [peak -otherwife than in gene- 
ral terms of approbation as to its execu- 
tion. 
& Eccentric Biography 3 or Memoirs of 
remarkable Female Charafers, Ge.’ . 
« Lives of liluffrious Seamen, &e. Gc.” 
Thee are harmiels comp: laticns. 
“ Public Charaders for 1803— 13804. * 
This work preferves the fame ralpett 
‘able charaéler which the_firft volume ac- 
quired. ‘ 
Dr. Askin’s “ General Biography’ is 
now carried down to the letter G inclu- 
five. The merits of this work are very 
generaliy known, 
VOYAGES, TRAVELS, AND TOURS. 
Mr. Barrow has publifhed a fecond 
volume of his Beorls into the Interior of 
Scuthérn Africa. 
In his former: he had chiefly confined 
his obfervations to the naiusal biftery of 
the country; to a geseral defeription of 
its furface and an; earance; and the man- 
ners, cutioms, and ftate of fociéty ct the 
The, 
he july cbferves, furnith a vait fund of 
uictul and agreeable infor mation, but they 
Go not ceniicute a whole; a number of. - 
ether fabjects mult be difcuffed and de- - 
ia i befere cur Knowledge of that 
ountry can be faid to “ir complete. 
Among thele, are not the leat important, 
the 
