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and corrected the errors which abounded 
in the other copies. From the accuracy 
with which the Perfian Geographer de= 
feribes the diftances of places, the roads, 
rivers, and mountains, as well as the 
cities, towns, and villages, the errors of 
all the maps of Perfia hitherto publithed 
may be corrected, and a multiplicity of 
names added. To the antiquary and 
hiftorian, this work will not be lets intereft- 
ing than to the geographer, asit defcribes 
the monuments of former ages found in 
various parts of Tran, or Perfia, and 
contains many curious anecdotes of the 
ancient fovereigns of that celebrated 
empire. ‘Fhis work will form a quarto 
volume, with a map. 
In addition to the particulars to which 
we gave place laft month, relative to the 
voyage of Lord Vatrntia, we are now 
enabled to ftate, that, after he lett the 
Ganges, he performed the ordinary coatt- 
ing voyage round the peniafula of India, 
touching at the pmncipal places, and 
making fome excurfions into. thei vici- 
nity. His Lordihip afterwards vifited the 
Red Sea, relative to-which, and the 
parts of Africa adjacent, many new and 
inte refting facts may be expected’ in his 
forth-coming work. We have already 
feen a map of that fea, prepared by Mr. 
Arrow fnuth, under the direction of his 
Lerdihip, from which we augur favour- 
zbly of the ceneral value and importance 
of his obfervations. 
The Travels of Mr. Iersor through 
Upper and Lower Canada, containing 
particulars of the new colonization of 
the former of thefe important provinces, 
will appear in the-laft decade of March, 
and will challenge public curiofity, not 
leis for the novelty of its information, 
than for the beauty and variety of its em- 
bellithments. 
A new edition, being the fifth, is in 
the prefs, et Dr. Bree’s Enguiry into 
Difordered Refpiration, a work which 
bas centinued to eftablifh itfelf in the 
public eftimation fo as now to rank among 
ur medical clafiics. 
A new work on Conveyancing, con- 
fifung of a collection of modern prece- 
dents, with notes aad illufirations, and 
a praétical intreduétion on the language 
aud ftructure of conveyances, will fpeed- 
ily be publifhed, by Jounw Turner, Efg. 
ef the Middle Teinple. 
The Townley Marbles are now placed 
in the apartment prepared for them in 
the Brith Mufeum, and’will, we hope, 
be foon acceflible to the pubh 1c. 
Mr. BeLrour, the trauilater of the 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
[March mm; 
Mufica and Fabulas Literarias of Yri- 
arte, 15 about to publith a new and im- 
pags edition of Jarvis’s verfion of Don 
Quixotte, embellithed with fuperb en- 
gravings, and iluttrated by notes, hifto- 
rical, critical, and literary, from the 
pens of Mayans, Bowle, Vicente de los 
Rios, Pellicer, and other able commen- 
tators. Mr. Belfour propofes to add 
remarks on the life and writings of Cer- 
vantes ; anecdotes of his cotemporaries $ 
and particulars of the manners, cuftoms, 
and ftate of hterature of the time in 
which he lived, - 
Dr. Scorris preparing anew edition, re- 
vifed, and tranflated trom the Arabic MS. 
bioiehs over by Mr. Montague, of the 
Arabian Nicht’s Entertainments; with 
notes illuftrative of the cuftoms and nian 
hers of the country. The additional 
tales, which have never been trantlated, 
are faid to be as interelting as thofe with 
which we are acquainted. The tranfla- 
tions which have been publifhed in this 
country, have been made from the 
French verfion of M, Galland, who trufi- 
ed to a verbal tranflator, being himfelf 
ignorant of the Arabic language. 
Mr. Grant, of Crouch End, near 
ligheate, has in the prefs a work 
entitled, ‘Inftitates of Latin Grammar. 
This work is intended chielly for the 
higher claffes ofan academy or grammar- 
fchool. With.this view, the author has 
not only endeavoured to fupply the def- 
ciencies and correct the errors of our 
common grammars, but has likewife iu- 
troduced a variety of critical and expla- 
natory obfervations. By exhibiting an 
Se and accurate digeft of the ruies 
and ae of the- Latin language, 
aaa by a copious enumeration of ano- 
malies and exceptions, he has cndeavour- 
ed to furnilh not only the fenior {cholars, 
but alfo the matter, with a ufeful book of 
occafional reference. 
Dr, J. &. Surra_propofes fhortly ta 
publiih an Introduction to Botany, m one 
volume ottavo, with a few, plates, in- 
tended for the ufe of female as well as 
male ftudents of that delightful fcience, 
and divefied of every thing that might be 
deemed exceptionable. 
‘The venerable’ Bihop of Dromore 
will foon publifh bis edition of Surrey’s 
hq with a gloffary. 
Mr. Soruzpy has finifhed a poem on 
"the fatgee of Saul, in eight books, im 
blank verfe. 
Mr. S: Woovavawe has in go iaee oe 
for wardnefs a hundred Views of Churches 
in the neighbourhood of London, with 
4 “ deferiptions 
