SWEDEN,

ART. 42. Refa uti Europa, Africa, och Afia, förrätted aren 1770-9,

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Fjerde Delen, innehallande Refan uti Kejfaredomel Japan, pa Java. ach Ceilon, famt Hamrefan af Carl Pet. Thunberg, &c.-Travels through Europe, Afia, and Africa, in the Years 1770-9. Fourth Volume, containing the Travels through Japan, to Java and Ceylon, with an Account of the Author's Return. By Dr. C. P. Thunburg, Knight of the Order of Wafa, and Profeffor of Botany. Upfal. 1793. 341 pp. in large 8vo. with four plates.

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In our fecond volume, at pp. 291, and 376, we gave a full account of an English translation of the three firft volumes of this excellent work and as the fourth is promifed by the fame tranflators, we fhall not, by extracts from the original, anticipate what will be more acceptable to the English public when the whole book shall be naturalized among them. When we gave the interefting account of Wollemad (p. 295) it did not occur to us that it has appeared in a prior publication. The reader, may, however, find it, almoft verbatim, in the first volume of the voyage of another learned Swede, Profeffor Sparrman, chap. iv, § 1.

SPAIN.

ART. 43. Reflexiones fobre las Maquinas y Maniobras del ufo de á Bordt ordenadas por Den Francifco Cifcar Teniente de Navio de la Real Armada. De orden fuperior. Madrid, 386 pp. in large folio, with 170 plates.

We can venture to recommend this work, compiled by the ingenious fucceffor of Jorge Juan, not only on account of the variety of articles it takes in, and their luminous arrangement, but alfo on account of the perfpicuity of language by which it is diftinguifhed, and which fo rarely falls to the fhare of Mathematical writers, as the most complete and generally useful book on the theory and practice of navigation that has yet appeared in any country of Europe.

In our laft Number, by an accident at the prefs, Art, 62, was left imperfect. The following addition will render it complete.

Conclufion of Art. 62, No. XX.

By the Application of Isaiah xi. 1, 2, to the Meffiah, they were indu ced to admit of seven or ten Afiloth, or branches, of which the fécond was the wiflom or word of God. (8 and 9) Two academical prolufions de more veterum, præfertim Hebræorum dierum initia ducendi a folis occafu i & de vis electric flammarum luminumque miræ effeßricis veftigüs in codifacro, both of little value,

Ibid.

ACKNOW

Our worthy Correfpondent T. M..of Edinburgh, who is fo anxious to inform us of the geographical Situation of North Britain, and fo defirous not to have its remotenefs from London exaggerated, may be affured that, befides accurate Maps, we have Patterson's Book of Roads, and other authentic Publications in which thofe circumftances are very diftinctly specified: and moreover, that we have no defire to push it to a greater Distance than the right, either really or metaphorically; having a fincere Refpect for its Inhabitants. But he muft allow us to fay, that, where perfonal intercourfe is the Point in queftion, places, in all directions, not reached by a Radius of 300 Miles, are certainly remote. We are glad the British Critic reaches Edinburgh fo expeditionfly, and hope it will continue to be approved there. On matters of Opinion and Tafte we probably fhall not often differ from T. M.

At the particular Request of the candid Author of Vindicia Britannica (mentioned in our Review for December. p. 684) we infert that he retracts the Sentence to which we objected, as rather an indecorous Parody of a Scriptural Paffage; adding that he wishes this to be done," as a teftimony of his firm belief in the Faith of our Forefathers, and of his reverential Awe for that Religion, which is most indubitably from God."-For our own parts we must say, that we rather meant to object to the practice in general, and to warn a young writer from falling into it, than to reprefent him as particuJarly reprehenfible, in the inftance to which we alluded. But the manner in which he has answered our remark, affords fo pleasing an inftance of the good effect that may be produced, in an ingenuous mind, by gentle admonition, that we notice it with peculiar fatisfaction.

We have to requeft the Indulgence of Z. O. for having accidentally omitted to anfwer his Enquiry when we publifhed our laft Number. The refpectable and ufeful Society with which he withes to communicate, meets at the British Museum.

As the London Medical Journal is become extremely scarce, a correfpondent defires to fay, that a republication of that useful work would be highly acceptable to a great many gentlemen of the faculty, and to exprefs his hopes that Dr. Simmons may be prevailed upon to undertake it foon. DOMESTIC

The first fafciculus of the Hortus Malabaricus Anglicus will be published in February.

So alfo will Bulmer's most beautiful Specimen of Typography, exemplified in Goldfmith's Poems and Parnell's Hermit.

1. Of

The public may expect alfo from the Tranflator of Herodo tus, and Aulus Gellius, three Volumes of Mifcellanies. Original Poems. 2. Of Claffical Extracts. 3. Of Arabian Tales never before tranflated.

To excite the military and patriotic ardour of his countrymen, at this period of threatened invasion, Mr. Pye is performinga task well worthy of a Laureat, in preparing a paraphraftic imitation of the Elegies of Tyrtaus, addreffed to the people of England.

Mr. D'Ifraeli is occupied, we understand, upon an Essay on the Manners and Genius of the literary Character.

We hear, with pleasure, that, just before the entrance of the French into Holland, Profeffor Wyttenbach's Preface and Prolegomena to Plutarch were difpatched to England, and have arrived fafe at Oxford, so that the first Volume may be expected to appear very speedily.

The University of Oxford is alfo about to print, with great liberality, a very cheap Edition of the Vulgate Testament, for the fole Ufe of the Emigrant French Priests. It is to be corrected by themselves, and they are emulous to make it, if poffible, that unheard of Production, an immaculate Book.

We are informed that the new Edition of Milton, in Octavo, elegantly printed by Benfley, with Johnson's Life and Critique, is to appear in February.

Mr. Lettice, Author of "Letters through various Parts of Scotland," will shortly publish, from the University Press at Cambridge, a Tranflation, in Blank Verfe, of the celebrated Latin Poem of Ifaac Hawkins Browne, on the Immortality of the Soul, with a Commentary and Annotations.

ERRATA.

In the prefent Number, p. 25. 1. 14. for older: t. others

P. 47. 1. 23. for exons I. exons.

ib. 1. 25. for απαγίελίας το απαγγελίας.

59. 1. 35. for ibimos r. ibimus,

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BRITISH CRITIC,

For FEBRUARY, 1795.

"Si alterum fit optandum; malim equidem indifertam prudentiam quam ftultitiam loquacem.'

CIC.

"If we muft decide between them, ineloquent wisdom is certainly preferable to loquacious folly."

ART. I. Tranfactions of the Linnean Society, Vol. 11. 4to. PP. 357. il. 5s. White. 1794.

Other Drith, its parent and prefident, and on the N the importance of this Society, the distinguished abi

good fenfe and difcernment which mark its proceedings, as no one will be fo prepofterous as to call any of them in queftion, it is neediefs in this place to expoftulate. We enter, therefore, immediately on the fubject of the prefent volume, and inform our readers, that it is confiderably more extensive than the former, which preceded our literary career; and that the papers amount to thirty-fix, befides extracts from the minute book of the Society.

We shall take notice of fuch as are more curious and interefting, and of thefe, the firft is by no means the leaft fo. It contains the history and defcription of four new fpecies of Phalana, by the late Mr. John Beckwith, a Fellow of this Society.

BRIT, CRIT. VOL. V. FEB. 1795.

This paper to the scientific Entomologift must be very ufeful and very fatisfactory. The fubjects are entirely new, the greater part of them of very rare occurrence, and all are exceedingly well difcriminated through their various changes.A coloured plate is annexed.

Art. II. p. 7. is on Scolopendra Electrica and Scolop. Subterranea, by Dr. Shaw. The remarks, as might naturally be expected, are very excellent; the only objection that can poffibly be made is, that a differentia fpecifica is wanting.

HI. p. 10. Remarks on the Abbé Wulfen's Defcription of Lichens, publifhed among his rare plants of Carinthia in Profeffor Jacquin's Collectanea, Vol. II. 112.

The remarks are by the Prefident; and it is really wonderful what a multitude of errors are here pointed out in the work of a Botanift of fuch diftinguifhed reputation.

IV. p. 15. Account of the Gizzard of the Shell; called by Linnæus Bulla Lignaria, by Mr. George Humphrey.

To this account a plate is annexed, and we have here an Anatomical Description of a part which Naturalists seem not hitherto to have obferved, though of material importance in the œconomy of fhell-fifh. This is a very curious paper. V. p. 19. Account of the difference of ftructure in the flowers of fix fpecies of Paffiflora, by Mr. James Sowerby.

The ftructure of the flower in this genus is fo complex, that Botanifts have been at a loss to understand all the various parts, and rightly to define the fpecies. Mr. Sowerby uniting the acuteness of an accurate Naturalist with his well-known abilities as a Painter, has in this paper illuftrated fome of the most intricate kinds, and has not only named and described their feveral parts, but has applied them fuccefsfully to the difcrimination of fpecies hitherto obfcurely defined. Plates are here alfo fubjoined.

VI. p. 29. Defcription of two new British Fuci, by T. J. Woodward, Efq. These are, Fucus Afparagoides, fo called from its resembling a plant of asparagus, with its leaves and berries, in miniature, and Fucus Hypogloffum. This last is a proliferous fpecies of extraordinary beauty.

At p, 231 will be found fome additional observations upon this and the paper which follows.

VII. p. 32. An Effay towards an hiftory of the British ftellated Lycorperdons, being an account of fuch fpecies as have been found in the neighbourhood of Bungay in Suffolk, by T. J. Woodward, Efq.

This paper may be confidered as a model of Botanical criticifm; although it is of confiderable length, it is far from being either tedious or uninteresting. The fynonyms are remarka