‘raj; read before she Ciafs of Phyfica 
Retrofpect of French Literature. —Mifcellanies. 
the Addenda to the ficft impreffion in the 
text of the fecond, and sis he has alfo 
prefented his readers with a § Supple: nent to 
_the lex Veronia, as well as to the jus pre- 
. diatoritum. 
she Twelve 
At the end of the Law of 
Tables, ‘he has joined a notice refpect- 
ing the colleétion of ediéts made by 
order of the Emperor Adrian ; and he 
has concluded ere. whole with a clear ard 
methodical table, in which he has pre- 
ferred the order of the -fragments to thet 
of the alphabet. 
It may not be a 
here to mention a few 
the author... The eas aa vene eats 
M. A. Bouchaud is at the head oe clafs 
of biftory and ancient literature of the Na-. 
tional Inftituteof France. In the eighvieth 
year of his age, he has fummoned up cou- 
rage and refolution fufficientto go through 
the labours required for an elaborate re- 
vifion, and a new and complete verfion of a 
work, confiiling of two voiumes quarto, 
and which cannot fail to be eftvemed by 
8 is of all nations. 
‘« Mémoire fur les Bafaltes de la Saxe, 
accompagnée d’Oblervations fur Origine 
ces Eales engénéral; lue ala Glafe des 
Sciences Phyfiques et , athématiques de 
‘PInfitut Nationa!l,en Frimaire, An. XT.” 
&c.—A Memoir relative to the Bafalies of 
paxony, accotpanied with Poti: 
concerning the Origin of Bafaltes in gene- 
t and 
Mathematial Sciences of the National In- 
ftitute; by J. F. pDAusBusson. 
M. d’Aubuffon beains by fating the 
different opinions of various paturaliles re. 
lative tothe origin cf bafaltes. There is 
no fubjeét indeed on waich the mineralo- 
gifs appear to be more at varance.— 
They, however, may be divided into two 
fects, the one (the-volcani?s) attribating 
their formation to fire, and th 
Neptunians) to water. 
thefe clafles the prefent author maniteftly 
belongs. 
After deferibing the bafaltes asa dark 
fony fubfiance, with a hard and compsc& 
grain, _generally found in {trata on the 
tops of mountains, he examines the lo!ty 
hilis of Saxony, where this fubitance is 
eens produced, and he infers: 
. That the bafaltes conftitute the lalt 
es produced of the mountain. 
2. That its formation is not fo ancient 
as that of the granites, the gnei ifs 2c : 
3. Dhat a confiderable lap'e of time 
mutt have taken place between the forma- 
Ja Vie 
other (the - 
To the latter of — 
b 
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tion of a mountain and its bafaitic fum- 
mit. 
“¢ La Gymnattique de la Jeuneff? 3 ou, 
Traité Elémentaire des Jeux. d?Evetcile, 
confiderés fous le rapport.de Jeur Urilité. 
phylique. et morale,’ &c.—Gymnaitics 
for Youth, or an Elementary Treavife on 
et Avsulements which paaver ee t@ 
the Excreife of the Body, contidered in re. 
ipect to their phyfical and moral a ilityig 
hy M. A. Amar DurivigR and L. K, 
JaurereT; 1 vol’ 12mo., with 30 en- 
gravings. : 
This littl work is a complete treatife 
on the éxereifes proper for children betore — 
they repair to the aniverfity, &c.; bat the 
erucitton to be found here, and the frudicd 
manner ta which it has been drawa up, _ 
renders it more proper for the maftersthan 
the {cholar. It isthe opinion of Jjauffret, 
who has publithed feveral little works an 
the education of children, that it is: betrer 
to {pend a few months of youth in the 
amulements and diverfions apprapriat e to 
tat time of life, than to attempt to ftody 
Tacitus ata period when it is impoflible . 
to underitand him. 
‘* Modeles Pittorefques et Hiftoriques 
des Paylagilies, Collection de Gravures 
au Trait et A VAcquatinia, d’aprés des 
meilleurs Ouvragés connus ou inédits des: 
Peintres Payfagites anciens et modernes 
de tous les Pays, renfermés dans les Mu- . 
feces, les Galeries, et les Etabliffemens 
Nationiux, ainfi que dans les Cabincts les 
plas céiébres des Particulicrs, foit, en 
France, foit chez I’ Etranger ; accompag= 
Nees de ee Hiforiques et Er agues fiur 
‘des Peintrés, le Mérite de leurs 
Ou iviages et les Principes d’ Art,’ &¢.— 
P. ictureique. and Hittorical Models of . 
me cape Painting, being a Collection of 
neravimnes in Stroke and Seong a, at 
ter the heft Works, ancient and modern, 
Oc: 5 by, BACLER D’ALBE, Painter, and 
Chief of the Dapper Ge a he aim 
to the Department of Wat, 
Tois work is pubdlifhed in numbers, 
and the be imprefiiuns amount to about 
three hali-crownseach. The tixth, which 
is the lait that has been publied, confilis 
Of tae 
. A View of the Shores or the Medi., 
eee after P,P. Bonzi, called “* Le 
Gobbo des Carraches.”’ 
2. The Bridge, by the fame. i 
3. An Inn, iy A. Pinacker. ; 
4. A Fleet, by the (ame mafer. 
5. A&A Moon-light Scene, by D. Te- 
niers 3 and 
6. A Man 
