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The fir& volume of the Journal of Con- 
temporary. Voyages and Travels has com- 
pleted the tranflations of Cassas” Travels 
in Ifria and Dalmatia—Mrcwnaux’ 
Travels in North America; and Kurr- 
NeErR’s Travels in Denmark, Sweden, 
Germany and Italy: befides an original 
Itinerary to Conftantinople, and copious 
Anslyfes of feveral Englifh works. The 
fecoad volume is intended to include St. 
Vincent's Voyage to the African Iflands, 
Povatsen’s Travels in Iceland, and 
fome others. 
A fplencid work entitled, A Gra- 
phic and Defcriptive Tour of the Univer- 
tity of Oxford, is in confiderable forward- 
nefs. It will comprehend general pittu- 
refgue views, correct reprefentations of all 
the principal public buildings, with their 
hiftory and prefent ftate, and the acade- 
mic coftume. The work wili be printed 
‘in imperial folio, in numbers; the frit of 
which will appear on the 2oth of June. 
At the firft annual meeting of the 
Britifh and Foreign Bible Society, held on 
Wednefday, the rft of May, at the New 
London Tavern, Cheapfide, the Right 
Hon. Lord Teignmouth, prefident, read 
from the chair a report of proceedings. 
It appeared from this report, and the ex- 
tracts of correfpondence which were after- 
wards read by one of the fecretaries, that 
the Society had made in the courfe of this, 
their orft year, a very confiderable pro- 
grefs; 2 fociety upon a fimilar principle 
has, under their aufpices, been eftablifhed 
in the free Imperia) City of Nurenberg, 
and a great degree of zeal has been excited 
In many other parts of the Continent, 
both among Proteftants and Catholics, for 
procuring and diftributing the Holy Scrip- 
tures. It alfo appeared that in Ireland, 
Scotland, and Wales, the views of the Sc- 
ciety had been cordially embraced, and that, 
in the two latter, colleétions had been made 
which already amount to more than 
two thovfand pounds. The report and 
reviled pian of the Society were unani- 
moufly adopted, and, on the motion 
of the Lord Bithop of Durham, feconded 
by Mr. Wilberforce, the warmeft thanks 
of the meeting were voted to the 
Right Hon. the Prefident, for his Lord- 
fhip’s faithful, zealous, and perfevering,at- 
tention to the interefts of the Society,. du- 
ring the whole period of his conneétion 
withit. Thanks were alfo feverally voted 
to tne Right Rev. and the other Vice-Pre- 
fidents; to the Treafurers and, Secretaries 
for their gratuitous fervices; to Granville 
Sharp, Eig. for a. valuable donation of Ver- 
ions of the Scriptures in varicus Modern 
Literary and Philofophical Iutellagence. 
[June 1, 
Languages ; to the Prefbytery and Synod 
of Glatgow for their refpective refolutions 
to promote colleétions for the Society; and 
to the feveral congregations throughout 
the United Kingdom, from which collec- 
tions have been received. The report is, 
we underftand, inthe prefs, and to that we 
muft refer the public for a more particular 
account of the defign and fuccefs of this 
inftitution. 
Major RaInsForD has in the hired a 
work, with plates, relative to the Ifland of 
St. Domingo. In conteqricnce of his-pe- 
culiar acquaintance with the fubjeét, a 
work ef great intereft may be expected. 
Mr. SMirH will publif, in a fhort time, 
anew Miap of the United. Kingdom, on 
fix large theets, on which all the principal 
roads will be carefully defcribed. The 
fame gentleman will publith a new Map of 
England and Wales, on a fimilar plan, 
with a view to accommodate travellers, 
Mr. Lesuz&, author of a work on Heat, 
is appoin'ed Profeflor of Mathematics in 
the Univerfity of Edisburgh, in the room 
of Profeflor PLayratR, lately appointed 
to the natural-philofophy clafs. 
The Rev. Gearce Watker, well 
known for his Treatife on the Sphere, is 
ele&ted Prefident of the Literary and Phi- 
lofophical Society of Manchefter, in the 
rcom of the late Dr. Percival. 
The Rev. James M‘DonaLp is admit. 
ted Profeffor of Natural Philofophy, at 
St. Andrews, in the room of the si Dr. 
Rotheram. 
The Literary Club has begun a fube ° 
{cription for ere¢ting a monument in St. 
Paul’s Cathederal, to the memory of Sir 
Josuua Reynonps, the founder of 
that Society. 
Mr. Kicut, of Herefordfhire, relates 
a curious faét refpeéting the ingenuity of 
the fpider. ** I have frequently,” fays he, 
‘< placed a fpider cn a fmall upright ftick, 
the bale of which was furrounded with 
water, to obferve its moft fingular mode 
of efcape. After having difcovered that 
the ordinary means of retreat ave cut off, 
it afcends to the top of the ftick, and, 
fianding neariy on its head, ejeéts a web 
which the wind readily carries to fome 
contiguous object. Along this the infect 
effects its efcape, net, however, till it has 
previoufly afcertained, by feveral exer- 
tions of its whole frength, that its web is 
properly attached at the oppofite end.” 
The Earl of Seuxirx will fhortly lay 
before the public Obfervations on the 
prefent State of the Highlands of Scotland, 
with a View of cxplaining the Caufes sill 
probable Conlequences of wines 2 
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