624 Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Voyages and Travels. 
tary tactics, and the conquests of the 
Turks. He speaks of the obedience of 
the soldiers to their superiors as bound- 
less, and attributes the great exploits and 
vast conquests of the Turks in some mea- 
sure to this submission. Their manner 
of fighting, he observes, varied according 
to circumstances ; sometimes engaging in 
large bodies, and at others dividing them- 
selves into different troops, attacking 
many parts.of an army at once, their 
force commonly consisting of two hun- 
dred thousand men. In his way home- 
ward, La Brocquiere appears to have vi- 
sited the salt-mines of Transylvania, pro- 
ceeding through Hungary, by Vienna, 
Munich, Constance, and Basil, to Poi- 
tiers, which the Duke of Burgundy was 
then besieging. Such is the plain out- 
line of the Esquire-Carver’s Travels, 
Another work, entitled to more than 
common attention, is the “ Journey from 
Madras through the Countries of Mysore, 
Canara, and Malabar,” by Dr. Francis 
Bucuanan, performed under the orders 
of the Marquis Wellesley. The author’s 
instructions, which were dated February 
24, 1800, directed him, as the first and 
most essential part of his mission, to re- 
mark the agriculture of the different dis- 
tricts he should pass through, in regard 
to their esculent vegetables, cattle, and 
farms. He was next to attend to the 
cultivation and preparation of their cot- 
ton, pepper, sandal-wood, and carda- 
moms; then to their mines, quarries, 
minerals, and mineral springs; to the 
climate and seasons of Mysore; and, 
lastly, to the condition of the inhabitants 
in general, in relation to their food, 
clothing, and habitations; and how far 
their condition in these respects may 
have been affected by the different chan- 
ges in the government. A copy of Dr. 
Buchanan’s manuscript Journal, contain- 
ing the result of his inquiries, was trans- 
mitted to the Directors of the East-India 
Company, who thought the publication 
of it worthy the patronage of the Court. 
On April 23, 1800, Dr. Buchanan left 
Madras, passing through Conjeveram, 
Arcot, Vellore, Paligonda, Vencataghery, 
Catcolli, and Bangalore to Seringapatam, 
where he arrived May 17, the observa- 
tions relating to which are comprised in 
the first chapter. In the second chap- 
ter we have an account of Seringapatam 
and its vicinity, enlivened by a descrip- 
tion of its capture. In the third chapter 
Dr. Buchanan proceeds to Bangalore, 
which, as he resided in it from the 22d 
ef June to the 2d of July, he describes 
‘with some minuteness in the fourth, 
Chapter V. brings the Itinerary to Doda- 
Bala-Pura; and Chapter VI. (which 
completes the ‘first volume) to Sira. In 
the seventh chapter, our author returns 
to Seringapatam, by Nagamangala and 
Tonura Cara. The eighth contains his 
journey through the part of Karnata south 
from the Cavery; the ninth, from the 
Kaveri-Pura Ghat to Coimbatore; and 
the tenth, from Coimbatore to the fron- 
tier of Malabar. The three remaining 
chapters of the second volume being de- 
dicated to a copious description of the 
southern, central, and northern districts 
of Malabar. In the fourteenth, fifteenth, 
and sixteenth chapters, Dr. Buchanan 
proceeds through the entire province of 
Canara; whence, in the seventeenth, he 
pursues his route from the entrance into 
Karnata to Hyder-Nagara, through the 
principalities of Soonda and Ikeri; in 
the eighteenth, to Hercura, through the 
principalities of Ikeri and Chatraskal : 
in the nineteenth, to Seringapatam, 
through the western and middle parts of 
the Mysore dominions; and, in the twen- 
tieth, back from Seringapatam to Madras. 
The vast body of information which has 
been brought together in Dr. Buchanan’s 
three volumes will no doubt be found of 
great practical utility; but we cannot 
help wishing, with the traveller himself, 
that a longer stay in England had allowed 
him time to have given his work a me- 
thodical arrangement. To give a ‘more 
minute account of his travels here would 
exceed the limits of our Retrospect As 
a specimen of his style and manner, we 
shall copy two short passages. One from 
the third chapter relates to the manner 
of forming a cocoa-nut garden. The 
other contains the description of Hyder- 
Nagara. ng 
Vol.i. p. 155. “ The manner of form- 
ing a new cocva-nut garden is as follows: 
the nuts intended for seed must be al- 
lowed to ripen until they fall from the 
tree, and must then be dried in the open 
air for a month, without having the husk 
removed. .A plot fur a nursery is then 
dug to the depth of two feet, and the 
soil is allowed to dry three days. On 
the Ugadi feast (26th March) remove 
one foot of earth from the nursery, and 
cover the surface of the plot with eight 
inches of sand. On this place the nuts 
close to each other, with the end con- 
taining the eye uppermost. Cover them 
with three inches of sand and two of 
earth. Ifthe supply of water be from a _ 
well, the plot must once a day be wa- 
tered ; 
