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“ tentir re, benevclent, and venerable arch- 
deacon ; en cloguent and _ perfuafive 
preacher ; a faithful paftor, and exemplary 
guide ; of unblemifsed purity of lite, of 
imple dignity of manners ; a fincere and 
cordial fritnd.s an affectionate hufband, 
and an indulgent fatrer; in fhort, a ek, 
humane, pious, temperate, and indepen- 
dent man.” 
Omitting to enumerate the fingle fer- 
mons which are perpetually ifluing from 
the prefs, we proceed to 
NATURAL HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, and 
PHYSICS. 
' 6 Gramina Britannica ; or, Reprefen- 
tation of the Britifh Grafes, wiih Remarks 
and occafisnal ae criptions, by J. L. 
Knapp, Eig. FLL S.& AA, fs 
A more fplendid werk than the prefent 
has not lately iffued from tke Britth 
prefs; nor is the f{cientifical department 
in any re‘peé inferior to the mechanical. 
Mr. Knapp’s deicriptions are fingularly 
perfpicuous, elegant, and accurate. His 
refearches, sedecd, have not enabled him 
to add many new fpecies; which, how- 
ever, was fcarcely to be expected after 
thefe of Mr. Curtis, Dr. Withe ering, and 
Dr. Smith. The drawings, from which 
the plates are taken, were made by Mr. 
Knapp himéelf, from plants nearly all bis 
ewn gathering, in their native ftations. 
Dr. THomsown has juf publithed, in 
four volumes, a fecond edition of his 
s* Syftem of Chemufiry.” 
Many parts are re-written, the whole 
revifed, and the various faéts arranged, in 
a manedfeientiae and comprehenlive man- 
ner. The Augufline earth is omitted, 
and the new metal, the tantalium, added. 
The fecond divifon ‘‘of uncdnfineable 
bodies,’ is greatly enlarged. . The au. 
thor hiss 4 in every part, availed himie.f of 
the moft important works, and particu- 
Jaily of Mr. Robiion’s very mafterly edi- 
ticn of Dr. Black's Ledtures. 
 Obferva ie hic y lithological, made 
in a Five aeeks Teur to the princioal 
Lakes of W: fmareland and Cumberland:” 
Thefe ob! icywations, anes fhort and 
mifcellaneous, difcover tfe acute and ac- 
urate mincralogif. 
Mr. Lesuie’s ‘‘ Experimental Enquiry 
into the-Nature and Propagattn of Heai,” 
is confidered as a matier-piece of phi.o- 
fophical invefigation; his experiments 
were managed with the greateft ikill, de- 
licacy, and judgment ; and his a apparatus 
is contrived with exquilite ingenuity. 
Count Rumford, in his Enquiry con- 
cerning the Nature of Heat, (publified in 
the frit part of the 5 nan Tranf- 
Reirefpeci of Domeflic EERE Hiftory, Fe. 
aclions for 1804) is fuppofed to have 
taken confiderable- advantage of Mi. 
Leflie’s work. 
Dr. TuRNER’s © Philofophical Enquiry 
into the Properties of Nature,” 
gre and unicientific compilation.’ 
** The Britifo Mufeum; or, Elegant Re- 
poftcry of Natural Hiffory, by W. Hot- 
LOWAY and JonN BrancH, A. M.” 
This is a refpettable compilation: fhould 
the work come toa fecond edition, fome 
grammatical tmacecuracies will demand 
correctien, and fome of the figures may 
be more accurately drawn. 
It is time that we proceed to another 
diviion of our Retrofpect. 
CLASSICAL LITERATURE, PHILO- 
LOGY, &ee.. 
Mr. MITFORD, the learned and cael 
Jent hiforiar of Greece, has publifhed a 
new edition, materially enlarged and moft 
carefully reviied, of his ‘‘ Enguiry iato the 
Principles of Haerimony in Language, and 
of the Mechanijm of Verfe, modern and 
ancient. 2 
This may be confidered es the bett 
treatife on fubjeé&t extant in. our 
tongue; it difplays a varied and extenfive 
erudition, correct talie, and much critical 
acumen. 
Mr. Dippin, of St. John’ s College, 
Oxfcrd, has publifhed a new edition, cor- 
rected, and very much enlarged, of his 
“ IniroduGion to ihe Knowledge of rare 
and valuable gi of the Greek and 
Latin Claffics, Gc. Ge. 
The -Greek and ee in authors : are ar- 
ranged, indifcriminately, in alphabetical 
the 
-ord:r ; and of each, the different edicicns 
are enumerated in the order of time, with 
a fort hiftery and criticifm fubjoined of 
every eGiticn. The prefent volume con- 
tains an account of the Polyglot Bibles, 
the Greek Bibles, the Greek Teffaments; 
editions of the moft popular Greek and 
Latin cisilies, alphabetically arranged ; 
the Latin writers on Hufbandry; the 
Greek Romances; and the various fets of 
the Claffics, fuch as. the editions in Ufum 
Deiphini, the Varierum, and Elzevir Edi- 
tions, the Aldine Claffies, &c. together 
with an Analytical Index; exbibiting, at 
one view, the- printer ’s name, the place of 
printing, the fize, date of edition, with 
teference to the page where the fuil ac- 
court is to be found. Mr. Dibdin ob- 
ferves, that, if this publication fhould be 
approved of, he may be induced to follow 
it up witha fimilar work, on the remain- 
Greek and Latin writers, including the e 
which may be fucceeded by an 
account of the moft-curious and rare: 
Fathers ; 
bocks — 
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