6co 
*< Voyage en Norwége, avec des Ob- 
wre ite fur PHiftoire Naturelle et Eco, 
nique, &c.-—A Journey through 
Newey. with Obfeivations on the Naiu- 
ral fee a&d Economy of that Country ;. 
from the German of Joun CurisTIAN 
FABRICIUS. 
Vhe tranflator of this work remarks, 
that the pee mention of the name of Be 
auiber is {ufficient to difpofe every one 
to confider pe labeurs with a favourable 
eye. John Carittian Fabricius, the learn- 
ed profeflor of Kiel, has tendered himfelf 
difting guifhed by his talents in entomology, 
which are well known (0 every one who 
has fludied the nature and ptoverties of 
infects; and we are affured that the pre- 
fent publication cannot failto twine new 
faurels around the brow of this learned 
naturalift. 
The author himfeif, however, is much 
more modeft and vale in his preface 
than his very pompous tranflator. He 
acknowledges that his obfervations are iu- 
complete, having been colle&ted within 
the gate of a few months 3 an interval of 
time, which, according to him, is fearcely 
fufficient for acquiring a flight knowledge 
of a city, or even of a fingle commune or 
parith. In fhort, he terms this produc 
tion, a mere mifcellany, confifting of a 
few fragments of what he himfelf had 
fecn during his travels, &c. e 
Norway, a counry almoft forgotten b 
nature, or, at leaft, but little indebted to 
her {miles, prefents very few refources to 
its inhabitants. The fifhery alone peo- 
ples the cold and fterile rocks which 
guard her coafts. The northern fates, 
indeed, feem to form a world apart ; and 
the region of which we now treat, pof- 
fefles this remarkable peculiarity, that its 
{cil, its productions, its agriculture, its 
botany, and its induftry, have nothing in 
common with the reft.of Europe. It 
feems to conftitute the very limits of na- 
ture. ‘ 
‘It is among the northern nations,” 
fays our author, ‘‘ under the fummits of 
cold mountains, that the pee and the 
cedar Brow together, with the greater’ 
art of thofe refinous trees which fhelter 
man from the fnow by the thicknefs of 
their branches, and nae fornifh, during 
the winter, not only a fire, buta fubfti- 
tute for candle, te the inhabitants.” In 
other refpects tco, they pofle’s fome ad- 
vantages, which in their own opinion at 
leaft, in a certain degree counter-ba- 
lance the enjoyments of happier climes ; 
for we are told that the guiphs and bays 
Retrofpedi of French Literature—MVilcellenics. 
fituate on the northern thores of Norway, 
never freeze ; this circuaftance, which is 
faid to be oceafioned by the inceflant 
agitation of the fea in that quarter, is 
well calculated to facilitate fffiag, navi- 
ge@tion, and commerce. We are affured- 
too, that a variety of wild fraits are to be 
found here in abundance, although we 
can fearcely beiteve, ** that they are pre- 
ferable to what is produced in other coun- 
tries by cultivation.’ Nor ought it to be 
omitted, that the ‘© Norwegians can asvi- 
gate from ieke to lake, without delay, and 
without much trouble.” En confequence 
of * acontinuation of fimilar bleffings’ 
the dwarf birch-tree, fo ufeful in fecha 
country, is found equally among the arid 
fands, in the vallies, and on the the fum- 
mits of the moft elevated mountains ; nay, 
we are told, that the rocky fhores of the 
northern ocean are wifinitely more rich 
the produ€tions of nature than the flat’ 
and muddy banks of the Baltic. 
Profeffer Fabricius obferves, that the 
natives of the internal parts, have been 
induced, by the love of gain, to repair to 
the fra coat and he feems to intimate, 
that the noifé oceafioned by an increafed 
population, has contributed to banith the 
finny inbabitants of the deep, (thofe 
friends of filesce and repofe) from the: 
neighbouring fhores! The woods, which 
conititute no {mall thare of the riches of this: 
@ountry, are cut down by the-axé, and 
then, proportioned cut by means of faw- 
mills. Such is the number of the trees’ 
thrown into the rivers, &c. for the pur- 
pole of a more ealy conveyance, that they 
not unfrequently dam up the waters, and 
even encumber the port of Fredericfhall. 
We are afiured at the fame time, that the 
interruptions occafioned in the rivers, by 
means of the faw-muills, have rendered the 
falmon very fcarce ; and it 1s added, that 
the refinous. odour 13 extremely dilagree- 
able to this Species of fifh, the delicacy of 
which is extreme. . 
This work is written with equal clear- 
nefs and precifion, 
«Bulletin de PInftitut de Jurifprudence 
et d'Economie Politique, et Journal de 
Sate udence, publie par lInfitut de 
Jurifprudence et d'Economie Politique.”” 
— ioral of the lnfiitaze of Junifpru- 
dence and Political Economy, Srey 
The title cf this work, cf whteh only 
eighteen mumbers have as yet appeared, 
fafficiently announces its nature and de- 
fign. It may EP ee ear however, to 
ftate, that the labours of the Academy 
of Legislation are here divided into the 
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