Retrospect of Domestic Literature— Medicine. 
for England in the identical galliot which 
had carried him to the Maes. 
Till the interdict which prevents our 
countrymen from visiting Holland and its 
neighbourhvod, shall be taken off, we 
must probably content ourselves with the 
view of its existing circumstances as they 
are here drawn. Sir John Carr’s tour 
was certainly rapid, and made under 
many disadvantages; but we are confident 
to say, that in anecdote, and the correct- 
hess of its pictures, it will not very soon 
be superseded. The Views which il- 
lustrate it, engraved by Mr. Daniel, are 
extremely elegant. They are of the 
Hague, Rotterdam, Delft, Scheveling, 
Leyden, Haarlem; the Stadt-house, Am- 
sterdam; the Pyramid at Zeyst, Utrecht, 
Dusseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Andernach, 
Coblentz, and Ehrenbreitstein, Boppart, 
Bibberich, Mayence, Frankfort, and 
Darmnstadt. Prefixed, is a Map of the 
Rhine, from Dusseldorf to Mayence. 
Another work of merit will be found 
in Mr. Herrot’s “ Travels through the 
Canadas,” a residence in which, for a 
series of years, afforded the author op- 
portunities not only of entering minutely 
into the civil and domestic history of the 
provinces, but of viewing nature in her 
wildest forms, and of witnessing the 
modes of life pursued by many of the 
tribes which are so numerously scattered 
_ through the extensive regions of America. 
Having opened his Travels with an ac-, 
count of the Azores, Mr. Heriot proceeds 
in the second chapter to Newfoundland, 
where the manners of the Eskimaux 
Indians form a short but curious digres- 
sion. In the third chapter he enters the 
St. Lawrence, taking a rapid view of the 
objects and scenes up the course of the 
river to Quebec. The falls of Niagara, 
which follow the description of the ccun- 
try to the Westward of Quebec, afford 
one of the most striking relations in the 
volume. They appear to surpass in sub- 
limity every description which the 
powers of language can supply, and form 
the most wonderful and awful scene 
which the habitable world presents. 
The ninth and tenth chapters are entirely 
devoted to the Canadas. As far as they 
themselves are concerned, their com- 
merce and administration, Mr. Heriot 
speaks entirely from his own’ knowledge. 
But in the second portion of tlie volume, 
where he enters into a comparative view 
of the manners and customs of. the In- 
dian nations, he has had recourse to 
yarious authorities; to the documents 
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found in the Jesuits’ College at Quebec, 
and to Memoirs, Travels, and other 
works of credit, which have been pub- 
lished at different periods, as well in the 
Enghsh as in other languages. Where 
the subjects are so numerous and in- 
volved, a particular analysis of twenty 
chapters cannot be expected. It may be 
suthcient perhaps to point out a few of 
the more striking parts. ‘The account of 
the domiciliated Indians of Jeune Lo- 
rette is at once pleasing and animated : 
nor will the philosopher be less pleased 
than the poktician, with the information 
Mr. Herict has collected from various 
sources relating to the American Abori- 
gines. Their domestic customs, super- 
stitions, warfare, sports, and diseases, 
are all enlarged upon; and at the close 
we have some valuable information on 
the Indian languages. The plates which 
accompany the work, are numerous; 
from drawings by Mr. Heriot himself. 
They afford views of scenery, with which 
none but those who had visited the Ca- 
nadas were befure acquainted.  Alto- 
gether we deem it one of the most 
Curious publications that have of late 
appeared. 
MEDICINE. 
The productions of the medical pro- 
fession, furnished by the last half-year, 
have been still fewer than ever. 
One of the most important in the list 
will probably be found in “ The Sketch 
of the Revolutions of Medical Science, 
and Views to its Reform,” by P. J. G. 
Casanis, translated trom the French by 
Dr. Henperson. The second chapter 
comprises in itself an extensive Survey 
of the History of Medicine; beginning 
with the early cultivation of it by the 
chiefs of savage tribes, by the poets, 
priests, and first philosophers, and by 
the schools of Greece, especially that of 
Hippocrates. M. Cabanis next gives an 
account of the state of the science ainong 
the Romans, continuing it to the time of 
the establishment of the Arabian schools, 
and thence to its introduction into 
Europe. After noticing the Jewish phy- 
-sicians, and the first sect of chemical 
physicians, he speaks of the revival of 
Learning, and the Hippocratic system 
of Stahl and Van Helmont, of Syden- 
ham, Harvey, Boerhaave, Hoffmann, and 
Baglivi; concluding with an account of 
the new Schools of Medicine at Edin- 
burgh and Montpellier. On the sub- 
ject of medical reform, it is impossible 
we should here give an analysis of the 
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