known. The firft undifputed mention of it, which Mr. B. has been able to find, is in the Specimen Sapientia Indorum, tranflated into the Greek language by Simeon Seti, in the eleventh century. Apuleius likewife fpeaks of it in a pailage which is so obscene, that many of his copyifts and editors have thought fit to omit it. The use of it, to which he alludes, is ftill known to the Chinese women. We are not to derive the name Mufens cabardinus from the country of Kabarda, the animal having never gone fo far weft, but, from Tabbarga, the name given by the Tatars, on the Jenifei, to the animal itfelf, and altered by the Ruffians into Kabarga, from which Foreigners have formed the word cabardinus; 7. p. 268. On the Ederden, (down of the Edcer-fowl) and on the Trade in Feathers for Beds in General. The Romans procured theirs from the northern countries, as far, at leaft, as their commerce extended; and we get ours likewife from the most remote northern countries, it having been found that the northern aquatic fowls, which indeed very feldom appear on the land, and particularly the fpecies of goofe jutt mentioned, yield the moft excellent feathers and down. Buci anan feems first to have fpoken of it. Of the method of catching this bird, the preparation of the feathers, which are often mixed with thofe of fome of the Alca. In p. 271, we have the explanation of a paffage of Aelius Lampridius, in which he fays, that Heliogabalus would not lie on any cushion that was not fluffed with hare's-hair, and partridge feathers, The eighth, and laft, article, treats of the Curcuma, or Turmeric. Ibid.

We take this opportunity of adding the following articles to our Lift of German feientific Publications, continued from p. 443 of Vol. V. ART. 71. Oefterreichische Baumzucht von Schmidt, des erften Bandes vierte Heft-Dendrology of Auftria, by Schmidt. Fourth (and laft) Part of Vol. 1. printed at Vienna, and containing 15 fheets of text, with Copper-plates, and an Index of the fyftematic names.

As this is certainly a very accurate and important work, we have no doubt but the uninterrupted continuation of it will be much defired by amateurs.

ART. 72. Befchreibung des ganzen menfchlichen Körpers mit den wichtigsten neuern anatomifchen Entdeckungen bereichert, nebft phyfiologifchen Erlauterungen von J. C. A. Mayer, Königl. Geheimderath and Profeffor. Auch unter dem Titel: Befchreibung des Nervenfyftems des menfchlichen Körpers.-Defcription of the whole human Body, enriched with the most important modern anatomical Difcoveries, together with phyfiological Illuftrations, by J. C. A. Mayer, &c. Sixth, seventh, ond eighth Volumes. Berlin, 1794. Likewife under the following title: Defcription of the nervous System of the human Body; the first Vol. containing 384, the fecond 419, and the third 392 pp.

In this otherwife ufeful publication, there will, however, be found very few improvements on, or deviations from, the opinions of the author's

author's predeceffors in this department of fcience. The whole is faid to be illuftrated with plates, to which Mr. M. conftantly refers, but which we have not yet feen.

ART. 73. Die Knochen des menfchlichen Körpers und ihre vorzüglich ten Bänder in Abbildungen und kurzen Befchreibungen, von Dr. Friedrich Heinrich Lofchge, der Medicin aufferordentl, Profeffor und Profe&or am anatomischen Theater zu Erlangen.-The Bones of the human Body, with their principal Ligaments, reprefented and briefly defcribed by Dr. F. H. Lofchge, &c. I.-IV. livraifm; Tab. IV.-XII. with double, namely both fhaded and linear, Plates; fheets E to Aa. Erlangen.

Thefe plates may likewife be had illuminated. We must own, that this work has greatly improved in the continuation. From Tab. V. it is evident, that where the objects are represented in their natural fize, the accuracy is not lefs ftriking here than in the figures of Albi nus or Wandelar; though fome of the others, owing to the fmallnefs of the fize, are lefs clear. In the ligaments, Dr. L. has certainly followed Weitbrecht; but, as it appears from the improvements made on him, not without confulting nature herfelf, The defcriptions are not too fhort, as we might from the title be led to apprehend, but fufficiently circumftantial and fatisfactory.

ART. 74.

Spicilegium Flora Germanica, Autore Henr. Adolph Schrader. Pars prior, cum tabulis æntis, 194 pp. in 8vo. Hanover 1794.

A valuable acceffion to the German Flora, containing an account of feveral plants, which, though in a country very well known, had.. either paffed unnoticed, or were imperfectly defcribed by former botanifts.

ART. 75. Verfuch einer vollständigen Anleitung zur Kenntnifs der Mineralien, von Lenz. Erfler Theil.-Efay towards a complete Introduction to the Knowledge of Minerals, by Lenz. Vol. I. including the different earths and ftones, falts, oily mineral bodies, and petrefactions; Leipfig, 1794; 640 pp. in svo.

Those who do not find it convenient to acquaint themselves with the Wernerian fyftem, and its technology, from the works of that author · himfelf, will undoubtedly be glad to meet with an abridgment of it here, accompanied, at the fame time, with an account of the more recent difcoveries pointed out in Bergman's Journal, and the Annals of Chemistry. To the whole are annexed, a Table, containing the names of all the minerals defcribed in this volume in the German, Swedish, Danish, English, French, Italian, Latin, Greek, Hungarian, and Ruffian languages; as alfo a lift of the principal writers on the fubject of Mineralogy, in which, however, is omitted the excellent Hungarian Mineralogy of Fr. Benkö, entitled Magyar Mineralogia az az A köwek' 's Erzek' Tudemanya. Kolo 's varott. 1786. 8vo.

RUSSIA.

ART. 76. Georg Wilh. Steller's Reife von Kamtfchatka nach America mit dem Commandeur-Capitain Bering. Ein Pendant zu deffen Befchreibung von Kamtfchatka.-Voyage by G. W. Steller, from Kamtfchatka to America, with Capitain Bering, published and ilIuftrated with Notes by Mr. Pallas. A Companion to his (Steller's) Description of Kamtfchatka. Petersburg, 1794: 133 pp. in 8vo. It must be owned that few voyages of difcovery have, from the grofs mifconduct of fome of the leading perfons employed in it, fo little answered the public expectation, as thefe now before us. The two packet-boats, St. Peter and St. Paul, left the port of Arwatscha on the 29th of May, 1741, to proceed to the coaft of America. The veffels had been a few days only at fea, when the St. Paul was loft fight of, and never again joined the other, in which Bering and Steller were. In the very outfet of the voyage the officers paid no attention whatever to the marks of neighbouring islands, or of a continent, which Steller would have pointed out to them. When they had at laft reached the American fhore, or rather the islands fituate on it, it was with the greateft difficulty, and not without ftrong expreffions of contempt, that he obtained permiffion from them to pass a few hours on the land, for the purpofe of examining its natural productions, which was, however, the declared object of the voyage, pp. 29, 30. He difcovered, in the fhort time which was allowed him for thefe obfervations, that the inhabitants of the American Iflands agreed even in the most trifling particulars with those of the north-eastern part of Afia, p. 32; and that the north-west part of America is much more temperate, and contains more beautiful forefts, and better springs of water than the north-east part of Siberia, which differences our author afcribes to the circumftance of the American coaft being less exposed to the north wind than that of Siberia, pp. 39-41. Though they had fpent only a few hours on the continent of America, or, to fpeak more properly, on the neighbouring iflands, and had not even made the belt ufe of that fhort space; they refolved, however, to return on the 11th of Auguft. The islands lying oppofite to Kamtfchatka were all barren, and without forefts, being all of them, from fouth to north, very small, and entirely open to the north wind, p. 57. In the beginning of September these extraordinary travellers were again brought by accident to an American Island, or, at least, to one that was confidered as fuch. In their colour, form, want of beard, pronunciation, cloathing, and in the manner of conftructing their boats, the inhabitants of this ifland perfectly refembled thofe of the north-eaft part of Siberia, pp. 67-74. Steller was by all these coincidences confirmed in his opinion, that the Americans muft have come originally from the north-eaft part of Afia. Early in the month of November, having encountered unfpeakable diftrelles at fea, they came in fight of what was afterwards called Bering's fland, which they then looked upon to be a part of Kamtschatka.

The

'The great lofs fuftained by the fhip's company from the fcurvy which they brought with them into this ifland, the hardships fuffered by the furvivors during the winter which they paffed here, and their arrival in Kamtfchatka in a small veflel formed from the remains of the old fhip, in the month of Auguft of the following year, are already known partly from Steller's Defcription of Kamtfchatka, and partly from an extract from the prefent voyage inferted by Mr. Pallas in the Nordifche Beyträge.-Steller himself certainly feems to have poffeffed all the zeal and information requifite for fuch an undertaking.

DENMARK.

ART. 77. Hiftorie af Denmark fra Ar 1147 til 1157 ved P. F. Suhm.-Hiftory of Denmark, from the year 1147 to the year 1157. by P. F. Suhm, Vol. VI. Copenhagen,. 2 Alphab. in 4to.

In this new volume of an history, in which even fome foreign nations are materially concerned, are contained not only the continuation of the Danish history under the Kings Svend Grathe, and Knud (Canute) V., but likewise a part of that of Norway for the fame period, as alfo corrections of certain errors in the former volumes, and indexes to the V. and VI. volumes. The fight of Svend from his kingdom is placed by the author in the year 1154. Kiöbenh. lärd. Efterr.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

In a very candid and able letter from Mr. Felfham, on the fubject of our late critique upon his Hiftory of George III., we acknowledge a pleasing inftance of a writer, who, though ftrongly fixed in his own opinions, can fuffer others to differ from him without anger. He disclaims all perfonal intereft in party difputes; to this we reply that, when political differences run high, a warm attachment to one fide is itself a perfonal intereft; which is the very cause that makes it next to impoffible for recent hiftory to be penned with impartiality. Mr. B. apologizes for the want of authorities, which we noticed, from the public notoriety of the facts he has related; but promifes, at foine future period, an appendix of state papers, and other documents. The application of three lines from Pope, with which his letter concludes, proves, at leaft, that the danger of reftraint has grown up very flowly in little lefs than fixty years.

From Mr Benfon, alfo, we have received a letter which does honour to the writer, and fully confirms the opinion

we before expreffed, that there was no real deviation from fcriptural truth in his mind, though there might be an appearance of it in a tranfient expreffion. We certainly did not mean to quote him unfairly, and we allow that the words, "through faith in him that promiseth," do remove a great part of the former objection.

J. L. E. hopes that the new tranflation of Taffo's Jerufa lem, announced as undertaken by Mifs Watts, will be accompanied by hiftorical and explanatory notes, which he is convinced will be very agreeable to the mere English reader. There are a few fuch notes to Sir J. Harrington's old translation.

W. S. will perceive, at the end of our Review for November, that we had discovered our own inadvertence before he informed us of it. It was not of a nature to be long undetected by ourselves or others.

D. D. may be affured, that the important work he mentions will not be forgotten, nor delayed longer than, from our other engagements, may be abfolutely neceflary.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

The papers of the French Captain, who was fent in vain to fearch for M. de la Peyroufe, having fallen, by the chance of war, into the hands of our countrymen, a publication will be made from them. For this purpofe they are now entrusted to the most eminent geographer of this country, that he may felect from them fuch matter as is most curious and important, which is faid to be confiderable in quantity.

A Gentleman in the University of Oxford is preparing a work, which is to confift of Selections from the French Anas, on the fubjects of Hiftory, Morals, and Literature, interspersed with Anecdotes of eminent perfons, and pieces of Poetry.

Mr. Refcoe's elegant work, illuftrating the Life of Lorenzo de Medici, will be completed in the beginning of the new year. Boydell's fecond volume of the Rivers of Great-Britain, will be publifhed in about a month.

A volume of Sermons, by the late very learned and refpectable Dr. Owen, is about to be published for the benefit of his family.