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alert than the former: a good colt, 
at the end of a year, will produce 
about 80 dollars. The Turkmanyeh 
race, so called from the Turkman 
Arabians, are to be found near Alep- 
po, and some are carried to Damas- 
cus, Tripoli, &c. They are good, and 
even handsome, but have been con- 
sidered as somewhat less valuable 
than the former. The price, how- 
ever, is nearly the same, the difference 
being in opinion,rather than in money. 
In acdition to all these, there are 
two others, one of which. is called 
Madelcumi, and the other Musmar ; 
they are produced by means of a 
mare of the three first races, and a 
Guedyeh horse ; in other words a stal- 
lion of no family or pretensions. 
The foals accordingly, although good, 
are in iess esteem, and produce no 
more than two-thirds of the sum paid 
for those of a superior race. 
“Observations sur] le Voyage en 
Grece, &c.’’ Remarks on Bartholly’s 
- Travels in Greece, during the years 
1803 and 1%04. 
The French have been induced 
by policy to vaunt the accomplish- 
iments of the Greeks, and deem them 
worthy of being withdrawn from the 
interested protection of the Russians, 
and the cruel bondage of the Turks, 
The work under consideration, is cou- 
sidered asa libel on the character of 
that nation ; and the German author, 
although he is allowed to have vi- 
sited Greece, is yet accused of being 
ignorant both of its language and its 
topography. The celebrated Phar- 
salta, is termed by Beriholdy, Farsa, 
although that town is at this day 
known by the appellation of Phersala, 
His *: Present State of the Civilization 
of Greece,’’ ts contrasted with works 
writien by Dr. Coray on the same 
subject ; and the aitack on the offi- 
cious hospitality of the patriarchs, 
primates, and distinguished ecclesi- 
astics, which is said to spring from 
the love of money alone, is attempted 
to be ridiculed, and even contra- 
dicted. A physician having felt the 
pulse of a-corpse, the head of which 
was concealed, «and pronounced a 
speedy cure, this incident has caused 
the traveller, it seems, to term all the 
taedical practitioners charlatans or 
quacks.. We are assured of two facts 
fron) tats publication, both of them 
interesting, although the one is ofa 
privaie, and the other of a public na- 
Retrospect of French Literature---Miscellanies. 
ture; in the first place, we are taught 
to believe, that in every village 
throughout Greece, there is a school 
for the instruction of youth main- 
tained at the common expence of the 
inhabitants ; and in the next,’ that all 
the Catholic priests are taken under 
the immediate protection of France, 
throughoutithe Levant, which has in- 
duced the Turks to prohibit marriages: 
between the Catholics and Greeks. 
‘* Gallerie de ! Hermitage, &c.’’The 
Gallery of the Hermitage, containing 
engraved prints of the finest pictures 
which compose that collection; with 
an historical Description, by Camille of 
Geneva, a work patronised by his 
Imperial Majesty Alexander 1. and 
published by Labensky at Peters- 
burgh. The Hermitage was the oc- 
casional residence of the late Empress 
Catherine I]. in which she spent her 
happiest hours, and which she em- 
bellished at an immense expense. While 
the gardens abounded with the rarest 
productions of nature, the apartments 
displayed the most finished efforts of 
arts. But it was chiefly paintings 
which were prized by her,and for these 
all Europe was searched, and every one 
who possessed good pictures, was cer- 
tain in her Imperial Majesty to find 
a liberal purchaser. Among others, 
ihe Houghton collection was bought 
from the Earl of Orford, and after 
having long adorned this country were 
transmitted to St. Petersburg; a cir- 
cumstance considered as a disgrace to 
an opulent nation, which permitted it-: 
self to be outbid by a sovereign, am- 
biiious alike to excelin arms, and pa- 
tronise the fine arts. 
The prints now under consideration, 
are of the 4to size, and by way of fron- 
tispiece we find a portrait of her Im- 
perial Majesty, after which follow 
45 engravings from the originals of 
the first masters of the different 
schools, accompanied by 123 pages of 
deseription, in French and Russian. 
This is the more valuable, asthe gal- 
Jery has been hitherto rather celebra- 
ted than kuown, the present being the: 
first account of it ever published. 
Of the Italian school, we here find: 
two pictures by Raphael, one repre- 
senting a Holy Family, and the other 
Judith after he had slain Holophernes. 
There are two also of Albano, one of: 
which has for its subject the Annun.: 
ciation; and the other, the Rape of: 
Europa. The marriage of St. Catha- 
rine, 
