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The foil is not naturally fertile, but, 
by. the induftry cf the farmers, wheat, 
ryc, barley, oats, peafe, winter and foring 
vetches, lentils, and buck-wheat, are all 
rated; but baviey is tae moft profitable. 
In the courié of the laft twenty years, ar- 
pears; &ec. have been mtroduced. TF 
number ef cattle bas alfo Been greatly in- 
creafed, and. one perfon only, pofirfles a 
flock of near 400 fheep, which have been 
crofled by Spanish rams. 
The village ef Merce farn! Paris, 
and all France, with woed. for. fans, io 
the amount, we are affeed cf a million of 
hyves a year 5 fome of the workmen gain 
five liviesa day, Savigries is famous for 
its poiteries, and, if we are to give credit 
tc the account now before us, this portion 
ef France has profited not a little by the 
ithes 
¥Yevolution. 
«¢ Analyfe Raifonnée du Droit Frangais, 
par ja Comparaifon, &c.”—A correét 
Aunalyfis of the Law of France, with a 
Comparifon of it to the Roman Law, the 
Cuitom of Paris, and the New Code; by 
P. L. Gin. 1 vol. 8vo. 
This is a periodical work, intended to 
confit of feveral volumes, in the courfe 
of which, M. Gin, a magiltrate under the 
monarchy, Wi Meares to elucidate and 
explain the jurifprudence of madern 
France. 
‘© Choix de plus Beaux Morceaux du 
Paradis Perdu, de. Milton, traduits en 
vers, par Louis Racine et NIVERNOIS ; 
avec une Notice fur la Vie de Milton, e cc 
PAnalyle d’ Addifon fur fon Poeme, &c.” 
—A Coliection of the moft Brilliant Paf- 
fages of Milion’s Paradife Loft, tranflated 
$nto Frenc hverie ; by Lovis RACINE and 
Niverngis 5; with a Biographical Notice 
relative to the Life of Milton, and Ad. 
difon’s Analybs of his Poem ; by G.M. 
BonremMs. 
We here find a comparative eftimate of 
the tranflation of Racine and Niver- 
nois, to the latter of whom the Editor pre- 
fents the palm of excellence. We believe 
that the Abbé Delille alfo has lately 
finifhed a French verfion of this mafter- 
picce of our great poet. ; 
‘© Precis d’Obiervations Pracliques fur 
les Maladies de la Lymphe, &c.”—A 
- Sammary-of Praétical Odiervations rela- 
see to Difeafes cf the Lymphatic Veflels, 
or Scrophula, the Rickets, &c. by A. 
ceskiah aps, M. D. member of the Aca- 
demic Societies of Seiences, Natural Hil- 
tery, Mcd cme, &e. 1 vol. 8vo. 
Dr. Salmade begins by fiating, that the 
Retrofpe? of French Literature. —Mdifcellanies. 
maladies upon which he treats have been 
known from the earlieft periods,and that the * 
phyficians of ancient, like thofe of modern 
times, attribute them to the flow of a cold. 
humour from all parts of the, body, to- 
wards the glandular fyfem. . The cantes 
affigned by him are, relaxation in the er- 
ale iong and painful dentition, the in- 
fuene: of marfhy lands, ihe int lalubrity of 
ne 2 wiry a fupp: ction of pe: {piration, 
&c. &c. He details the various lyme 
toms, a:d indicaics the remedies,. which 
are antifeorbutics, usned with bitters and 
mercorinis., .. Rickets,. according, to. h.s 
practice, ate to be cured the fame way, 
“ Grammaire Philolopkigne; ou, la 
Metapliy hque, la Logiqua, et la Gram- 
maire réunies en un Scal Cerps dé Doe- 
trine, &c.”"-——-A Philofophical Grammar ; 
or, Metaphylics, oe ci and Grammar, 
reunited in One Body; by DigupoNwne 
PHIEBAUL’ c, Profeflor of ’ the Central 
Sch oo}s. 
The ancients gave more liberal inter- 
pretation to the term grammar, than the 
moderns fe:m difpefed to allow ; for they 
included rhetoric, disleétics, mr fome- 
times even poetry itfelf. The celebrated 
Port Royal Grammar, was the firit in our 
own time that included rhetoric; and this 
Profefior is defirous to enlarge even that 
pian, fo as to render it mere generally be- 
neficial. Here follows a fhort analyfistof 
his (cheme:- In Part 1. he endeavours to 
prove the neceility of founding the ftudy 
of g¥ammar on metaphyfics, and he there- 
ae exainines the inteijeétual faculties and . 
operations of man, the fermation of his 
idcas, their nature, &c. 
Part If; is occupied with an expofition 
of werds, aud their relauive fgnifications. 
Part LIT. with an application of logic 
to {yn tax, 
‘© Commentaire fur la Lot des Dotize 
Tabies ; dédié au Premier Conful,”” &c. 
—A Cu mumentary en the Law of the 
Twelve Yables ; dedicated to the Firft 
Conful; by M. A. Boucwavd, a Mem- 
ber cf the Ne tional Inftitute, Profefior of 
the Law of Nature and Nations in the Na- 
ticnal Aaa of France, &c. &c. second 
edition. . 
This work, printed. at the expence of 
the French Government, and dedicated to 
the Firt Coniul, has already pafied 
through one edition. -Fr heslong been 
cenfidered in fome meafure as. claffi- 
cal, and received with’ -diftinétion by the 
firfi civilians in Europe. 
We are told, in. the preface, by the. 
learned commentator, that he has intferted 
the 
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