I. LIST of BOOKS, with REMARKS. HE STORY OF RASSELAS, Prince of Here Imlac entered. His look was clouded with thought. "Imlac, faid Raffelas, I have been taking from the Princess the difmal hiftory of private life, and am almost discouraged from further fearch." "It seems to me, faid Imlac, that while you are making the choice of life, you neglect to live. You wander about a fingle city, which, however large and diverfified, can now afford few novelties, and forget that you are in a country, famous among the earliest monarchies for the power and wisdom of its inhabitants; a country where the sciences first dawned that illuminate the world, and beyond which the arts cannot be traced of civil fociety or domeftick life. "I am willing, faid the Prince, to fee all that can deferve my fearch." "And I, faid the Princefs, fhall rejoice to learn fomething of the manners of antiquity." fa 301 I fome death lefs dreadful than enclosure in this horrid cavern. You know I dare not difcbey you: must go if you command me; but, if I once enter, I never fhall come back.' "The Princefs faw that her fear was too strong for expoftulation or reproof, and embracing her, told her that fhe should stay in the tent till their A return. Pekuah was yet not fatisfied, but entreated the Princess not to purfue fo dreadful a purpose as that of entering the receffes of the pyramid. "Though I cannot teach courage, faid Nekayah, I must not learn cowardife; nor leave at last undone what I came hither only to do." B The most pompous monument of Egyptian C greatnefs, and one of the most bulky works of manual industry, faid Imlac, are the pyramids; bricks raifed before the time of hiftory, and of which the earliest narratives afford us only uncertain traditions. Of thefe the greateft is ftill ftanding, very little injured by time." "Let us vifit them to-morrow, faid Nekayah. I have often heard of the Pyramids, and shall not D reft, till I have seen them within and without with my own eyes." Pekuah defcended to the tents, and the reft en tered the pyramid: they paffed thro' the galleries, furveyed the vaults of marble, and examined the cheft in which the body of the founder is fuppofed to have been repofited. They then fat down in one of the moft fpacious chambers to reft awhile before they attempted to return. "We have now, faid Imlac, gratified our minds with an exact view of the greatest work of man, except the wall of China. Of the wall it is very eafy to affign the motives. It fecured a wealthy and timorous nation from the incurfions of Barbarians, whofe unfkilfulnefs in arts made it easier for them to fupply heir wants by rapine than by induftry, and who from time to time poured in upon the habitations of peaceful commerce, as vultures defcend upon domeftick fowls. "But for the pyramids no reafon has ever been given adequate to the coft and labour of the work. It seems to have been ereed only in compliance with that hunger of imagination which preys inceffantly upon life, and must be always appeafed by fome employment." The refolution being thus taken, they fet out the next day. They laid tents upon their camels, being refolved to ay among the pyramids till their curiofity was fully fatisfied. They travelled genly, turned afide to every thing remarkable, stopped from time to time and converfed with the inha-EThey rofe up, and returned through the cavity bitants, and obferved the various appearances of towns ruined and inhabited, of wild and cultivated nature. "When they came to the great pyramid they were aftonished at the extent of the bafe, and the height of the top. They measured all its dimenfions, and pitched their tents at its foot. Next F day they prepared to enter its interiour apartments, and having hired the common gu des climbed up to the first paffage, when the favourite of the Princess, looking into the cavity, fiepped back and trembled. "Pekuah, faid the Prince's, of what art thou afraid ""Of the narrow entrance, anfwered the Lady, and of the dreadful gloom. I dare not enter a place which must furely be inhabited by un- G quiet fouls. The original poleffers of thefe dreadful vaults will start up before us, and, perhaps, fhut us up for ever." She fpoke, and threw her arms round the neck of her miftrefs. "If all your fear be of apparitions, faid the Prince, I will promife you fafety: there is no danger from the dead; he that is once buried will be feen no more." "My dear Pekuah, faid the Princefs, I will always go before you, and Imlac fhall follow you. Remember that you are the companion of the Prin cefs of Abiffinia." "If the Princefs is pleafed that her fervant hould die, returned the Lady, let her command H at which they had entered, and the Princess prepared for her favourite a long narrative of dark labyrinths, and coftly rooms, and of the different impreflions which the varieties of the way had made upon her. But, when they came to their train, they found every one filent and dejected. What had happened they did not try to conjecture, but immediately enquired. "You had fearcely entered into the pyramid, faid one of the attendants, when a troop of Arabs rushed upon us: we were too few to refift them, and too flow to efcape. They were about to fearch the tents, fet us on our camels, and drive us along before them, when the approach of fome Turkish herfemen put them to flight; but they feized the Lady Pekuah with her two maids, and carried them away: the Turks are now purfuing them by our inftigation, but I fear they will not be able to overtake them." The Princess was overpowered with furprize and grief. Raflelas, in the firft heat of his refentment, ordered his fervants to follow him, and prepared to purfue the robbers with his fabre in his hand. "Sir, faid Imlac, what can you hope from violence or valour? the Arabs are mounted on horfes trained to battle and retreat; we have only beafts of burthen. By leaving our prefent station we may lofe the Princefs, but cannot hope to regain Pekuah." In 392 In a fhort time the Turks returned, having not been able to reach the enemy. The Princefs burft out into new lamentations, and Raflelas could fcarcely forbear to reproach them with cowardice; but Imlac was of opinion, that the escape of the Arabs was no addition to their misfortune, for, perhaps, they would have killed their captives rather than have refigned them. A There was nothing to be hoped from longer stay. They returned to Cairo repenting of their curiofity. Next day the Prince prefented to the Bafla a memorial of the wrong which he had fuffered, and a petition for redrefs. The Baffa threatened to punifh the robbers, but did not attempt to catch them, nor, indeed, could any account or defcrip- B tion be given by which he might direct the purfuit. Imlac then endeavoured to gain feme intelligence by private agents. He found many who pretended to an exact knowledge of all the haunts of the Arabs, and to regular correfpondence with their chiefs, and who readily undertook the recovery of Pekuah. Of thefe, fome were furnished with money for their journey, and came back no more; C fome were liberally paid for accounts which a few days difcovered to be falfe. But the Princess would not fuffer any means, however improbable, to be left untried. While he was doing fomething the kept her hope alive. As one expedient failed, another was fuggefted; when one messenger returned untuccessful, another was difpatched to a different quarter. Nekayah, feeing that nothing was omitted for the recovery of her favourite, began imperceptibly to return to common cares and common pleatures. She rejoiced without her own confent at the fufpenfion of her forrows, and fometimes caught herfelf with indignation in the act of turning away her mind from the remembrance of her, whom yet the refolved never to forget. D the laws of hofpitality with great exactness to thofe beyond all danger of robbery or violence. The Princefs and her favourite embraced each other with transport too violent to be expreffed, and the Prince required of Pekuah the history of her adventures. "At what time, and in what manner, I was forced away, faid Pekuah, your fervants have told you. The fuddennels of the event ftruck me with furprize, and I was at firft rather stupified than agitated with any paffion of either fear or forrow. My confufion was encreased by the speed and tumult of our flight while we were followed by the Turks, who, as it feemed, foon despaired to overtake us, or were afraid of thofe whom they made a fhew of menacing. "When the Arabs faw themselves out of danger they flackened their courfe, and, as I was lefs harrafled by external violence, I began to feel more After fome time, we uneafinefs in my mind. ftopped near a spring fhaded with trees in a pleasant meadow, where we were fet upon the ground, and offered fuch refreshments as our mafters were partaking. I was fuffered to fit with my maids apart from the reft, and none attempted to comfort or infult us. Here I firft began to feel the full weight of my mifery. The girls fat weeping in filence, and from time to time looked up to me for fuccour. I endeavoured to pacify them by remarking, that we were yet treated with decency, and that, fince we were now carried beyond purfuit, there was no danger of violence to our lives. E In feven months one of the meffengers returned, after many unfuccefsful rambles, from the borders of Nubia, with an account that Pekuah was in the hands of an Arab chief, who poffeffed a caftle or fortrefs on the extremity of Egypt. The Arab, whofe revenue was plunder, was willing to reftore her, with her two attendants, for two F hundred ounces of gold. The price was no fubject of debate. The Princefs was in extafies when he heard that her fayourite was alive, and might fo cheaply be ranfomed. She could not think of delaying for a moment Pekuah's happiness or her own, but entreated her brother to fend back the meffenger' with the fum required. Imlac being confulted, after fome deliberation, directed the mefienger to propofe that Pekuah fhould be conducted by ten horfemen to the monaftery of St. Antony, which is fituated in the deferts of Upper-Egypt, where the fhould be met by the fame number, and her ranfom should be paid. That no time might be loft, as they expected that the propofal would not be refused, they immediately began their journey to the monaftery; and when they arrived, Imlac went forward with the former meflenger to the Arab's fortress. Raffelas, was defirous to go with them, but neither his fifter nor Imlac would confent. The Arab, according to the cuftom of his nation, obferved "When we were to he fet again an horseback, my maids clung round me, and refused to be parted, but I commanded them not to irritate thofe who had us in their power. We travelled the remaining part of the day through an unfrequented and pathlefs country, and came by moonlight to the fide of a hill, where the reft of the troop was ftationed. Their tents were pitched, and their fires kindled, and our chief was welcomed as a man much beloved by his dependants. "We were received into a large tent, where we found women who had attended their husbands in the expedition. They fet before us the fupper which they had provided, and I eat it rather to enG courage my maids than to comply with any appetite of my own. When the meat was taken away they spread the carpets for repofe. I was weary, and hoped to find in fleep that remiffion of distress which nature feldorn denies. Ordering myself, therefore, to be undreffed, I cbferved that the women looked very earnestly upon me, not expecting, I fuppofed, to fee me fo fubmiffively attended. When my upper veft was taken off, they were apparently ftruck with the fplendour of my cloaths, and one of them timorously laid her hand upon the embroidery. She then went out, and, in a short time, came back with another woman, who feemed to be of higher rank, and greater authority. She did, at her entrance, the ufual aft H of Story of RASSELAS Prince of ABISSINIA. of reverence, and, taking me by the hand, placed me in a smaller tent, fpread with finer carpets, where I spent the night quietly with my maids. A "In the morning, as I was fitting on the grafs, the chief of the troop came towards me; I rofe up to receive him, and he bowed with great refpect. "Illuftrious Lady, faid he, my fortune is better than I had prefumed to hope; I am told by my women, that I have a Princefs in my camp.' Sir, anfwered I, your women have deceived themfelves and you; I am not a Princefs, but an unhappy ftranger who intended foon to have left this country, in which I am now to be imprifoned for ever. "Whoever, or whencefoever, you are, returned the Arab, your drefs, and that of your fer- B vants, fhew your rank to be high, and your wealth to be great. Why fhould you, who can fo easily procure your ranfome, think yourself in danger of perpetual captivity ?" I told him that he should have no reafon to charge me with ingratitude, if I was used with kindness, and that any ransome, which could be expected for a maid of common rank, would be paid, but that he must not perfift C to rate me as a Princefs. He faid, he would confider what he fhould demand, and then, fmiling, bowed and retired. "We travelled onward by fhort journeys. On the fourth day the chief told me, that my ranfome must be two hundred ounces of gold, which I promised him. D "I never knew the power of gold before. From t that time I was the leader of the troop. The march of every day was longer or fhorter as I commanded, and the tents were pitched where I chose to reft. We now had camels and other conveniencies for travel, my own women were always at my fide, and I amufed myself with obferving the manners of the vagrant nations, and with viewing E remains of ancient edifices with which thefe deferted countries appear to have been, in some diftant age, lavishly embellished. "The chief of the band was a man far from illiterate; he was able to travel by the ftars or the compass, and had marked in his erratick expeditions fuch places as are moft worthy the notice of a paffenger. "We wandered about for fome weeks, and at laft came to the dwelling of our chief, a ftrong and fpacious houfe built with ftone in an island of the Nile, which lies, as I was told, under the tropick. "Lady, faid the Arab, you fall reft a few weeks after your journey in this place, where you are to confider yourself as Sovereign. My occupation is war: I have therefore chofen this obfcure refidence, from which I can iffue unexpected, and to which I can retire unpurfued. You may Row repofe in fecurity; here are few pleasures, but here is no danger." He then led me into the inner apartments, and feating me in the place of honour, bowed to the ground. His women, who confidered me as a rival, looked on me with malignity; but being foon informed that I was a great Lady detained only for my ranfome, they began to vie with each other in obfequioufnefs and F 303 turrets overlooked the country to a great distance, and afforded a view of many windings of the ftream. In the day I wandered from one place to another as the courfe of the fun varied the fplendour of the profpect, and faw many things which I had never feen before. "At night the Arab always attended me to a tower fet apart for celeftial obfervations, where he endeavoured to teach me the names and courses of the ftars. I had no great inclination to this ftudy, but an appearance of attention was neceffary to please my inftructor, who valued himself for his fkill, and, in a little while, I found fome employment requifite to beguile the tedioufnefs of time, which was to be paffed always amidst the fame objects. I therefore was willing to obferve the ftars rather than do nothing. "While I was detained in the Arab's house he made many incurfions into the neighbouring countries; but ftill delayed to fend for my ranfome, and would, perhaps, never have determined, had not your Agent found his way to him. The gold, which he would not fetch, he could not reject when it was offered. He haftened to prepare for our journey hither, like a man delivered from the pain of an inteftine conflict. Nekayah, having heard her favourite's relation, rofe and embraced her, and Raffelas gave her an hundred ounces of gold, which fhe prefented to the Arab for the fifty that were promised. Being returned to Cairo, they were fo well pleafed at finding themfelves together, that none of them went much abroad. The Prince began to love learning, and one day declared to Imlac, that he intended to devote himself to fcience, and país the rest of his days in literary folitude. "Before you make your final choice, answered Imlac, you ought to examine its hazards, and converfe with fome of those who are grown old in the company of themfelves. I have juft left the obfervatory of one of the moft learned Aftronomers in the world, who has spent forty years in unwearied attention to the motions and appearances of the celestial bodies, and has drawn out his foul in endlefs calculations. He admits a few friends once a month to hear his deductions and enjoy his difcoveries. I was introduced as a man of knowledge worthy of his notice. Men of various ideas and fluent converfation are commonly welcome to thofe whofe thoughts have been long fixed upon a fingle point, and who find the images of other things ftealing away. I delighted him with my remarks, he fmiled at the narrative of G my travels, and was glad to forget the conftellations, and defcend for a moment into the lower world. H "On the next day of vacation I renewed my vifit, and was fo fortunate as to pleafe him again. He relaxed from that time the severity of his rule, and permitted me to enter at my own choice. I found him always bufy, and always glad to be relieved. As each knew much which the other was defirous of learning, we exchanged our not ons with great delight. I perceived that I had every day more of his confidence, and always found new caufe of admiration in the profundity of his mind. His comprehenfion is vast, his memory capacious, his his difcourfe methodical, and his expreffion clear. The Princess and Pekuah having talked in private of Imlac's Aftronomer, thought his character at once fo amiable, that they could not be satisfied without a nearer knowledge, and Imlac was requefted to find the means of bringing them together. The Aftronomer, in purfuance of this refolution, was told, that a foreign Lady, travelling in fearch A of knowledge, had heard of his reputation, and was defirous to become his Scholar. The uncommonnefs of the propofal raised at once his furprize and curiofity, and when, after a fhort deliberation, he confented to admit her, he could not stay without impatience till the next day. The Ladies dreffed themselves magnificently, B and were attended by Imlac to the Aftronomer, who was pleased to fee himself approached with refpect by perfons of fo fplendid an appearance. In the exchange of the first civilities he was timorous and bafhful; but, when the talk became regular, he recollected his powers, and juftified the character which Imlac had given. Enquiring of Pekuah what could have turned her inclination C towards Aftronomy, he received from her a history of her adventure at the pyramid, and of the time paffed in the Arab's ifland. She told her tale with cafe and elegance, and her converfation took poffeffion of his heart. The difcourfe was then turned to Aftronomy: Pekuah difplayed what she knew: he looked upon her as a prodigy of genius, and intreated her not to defift from a study which she had D fo happily begun. From this time the Aftronomer was received into familiar friendship, and partook of all their projects and pleasures: his refpect kept him attentive, and the activity of Raffelas did not leave much time unengaged. Something was always to be done; the day was spent in making obfervations which E furnished talk for the evening, and the evening was closed with a scheme for the morrow. "Your curiofity, faid the Sage, has been fo general, and your purfait of knowledge fo vigorous, that novelties are not now very easily to be found: but what you can no lenger procure from the living may be given by the dead." Among the wonders of this country are the catacombs, or the ancient F repofitories, in which the bodies of the earlieft generations were lodged, and where, by the virtue of the gums which embalmed them, they yet remain without corruption." "I know not, faid Raffelas, what pleasure the fight of the catacombs can afford; but, fince nothing else is offered,' I am refolved to view them, and fhall place this with many other things which I have done, because I would do fomething." They hired a guard of horfemen, and the next day vifited the catacombs. When they were about to defcend into the fepulchral caves, "Pekuah, faid the Princess, we are now again invading the habitations of the dead; I know that you will stay behind; let me find you fafe when I return. I will not be left, anfwered Pekuah; I will go down between you and the Prince." No, They then all defcended, and roved with wonder through the labyrinth of fubterraneous pallages, where the bodies were laid in rows on either fice. "What reason, faid the Prince, can be given, why the Egyptians fhould thus expensively preferve G H thofe carcaffes which fome nations confume with fire, others lay to mingle with the earth, and all agree to remove from their fight, as foon as decent rites can be performed?" "The original of antient cuftoms, faid Imlac, is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the caufe has ceased; and concerning fuperftitious ceremonies it is vain to conjecture; for what reafon did not dictate, reafon cannot explain. I have long believed that the practice of embalming arofe only from tenderness to the remains of relations or friends, and to this opinion I am more inclined, because it seems impoffible that this care fhould have been general: had all the dead been embalmed, their repofitories must in time have been more fpacious than the dwellings of the living. I fuppofe only the rich or honourable were fecured from corruption, and the reft left to the courfe of nature. "Let us return, faid Raffelas, from this scene of mortality. Those that lie here stretched before us, the wife and the powerful of antient times, warn us to remember the shortness of our present ftate: they were, perhaps, fnatched away while they were bufy, like us, in the choice of life." "To me, faid the Princefs, the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity." They then haftened out of the caverns, and, under the protection of their guard, returned to Cairo. Pekuah was never fo much charmed with any place as the convent of St. Anthony, where the Arab restored her to the Princefs, and wished only to fill it with pious maidens, and to be made Priorefs of the Order: fhe was weary of expectation and difguft, and would gladly be fixed in some unvariable state. The Princefs thought, that of all fublunary things, knowledge was the beft: She defired first to learn all sciences, and then proposed to found a college of learned women, in which the would prefide, that, by converfing with the old, and educating the young, fhe might divide her time between the acquifition and communication of wifdom, and raife up for the next age models of prudence, and patterns of piety. The Prince defired a little kingdom, in which he might adminifter juftice in his own perfon, and fee all the parts of government with his own eyes; but he could never fix the limits of his dominion, & was always adding to the number of his fubjects. Imlac and the Aftronomer were contented to be driven along the ftream of life without directing their courfe to any particular port. Of thefe wishes that they had formed they well knew that none could be obtained. They deliberated a while what was to be done, and refolved, when the inundation ceafed, to return to Abifiinia. [Such are the out-lines of this well-imagined Tale. Those who are pleafed with obfervations on the paffions and frailties of human nature, on the various purfuits and difappointments of mankind in their journey through life; with difquifi tions on the feveral branches of polite literature; and on the most important points of focial happinefs in public and in private life, will be amply gratified by the perufal of this little work.] a. Reafons LIST of BOOKS, 2. Reasons against an Opinion that a perfon infected with the small-pox may be cured by antidote without incurring the diftemper. By Th. Frewen, M.D. 8vo. 1s. B It was the opinion of Boerhaave, and others, that a specific might be difcovered, which would extinguish or discharge the contagion of the fmall-pox A from a body infected, without permitting any eruption of the puftules; in the fame manner as a poifon is cured by its peculiar antidote. Divers medical writers have propofed to treat this diftemper,' like other inflammatory cafes in the beginning, with a view to difcufs the inflammation; fo that a fuppuration fhall not enfue. Dr. Frewen obferves, that the virus producing the fmall pox, is different from that of all other poifons, in as much as it never can be admitted, fo as to produce the fame difemper a fecond time in the human body: in this particular likewife, it differs from pleurifies, quinfies, and almost all other inflammatory diforders: he therefore thinks of the fmall-pox, that as nature endeavours with all her might, at the expulfion of the poifon, by forcing the morbid matter to the puftales, any interruption must be of dangerous confequence, left the humours fhould be impeded in their circulating motion, and fall into an inteftine one, and grow putrid. C 3. A Defcription of the antique Paintings difcovered at Herculaneum, and parts adjacent. Vol. I. in fol. Printed at Naples. D The lovers of antiquity and polite literature having directed their curiofity, for near twenty years paft, to the interefting difcoveries, occafionally made among the ruins of Herculaneum, the publication of a particular and fatisfactory description of those valuable remains, has been long impatiently expected. The catalogue publifhed at Naples, in the year. 1754, rather heightened this impatience, and in creafed the thirst of curiofity, than allayed it. At length, however, we find this curious work hath begun to make its appearance; nor, if our information be exact, doth it seem to have at all fuffered by the delay: this volume being executed in fo magnificent and masterly a tile, that it cannot fail of giving the higheft fatisfaction to the Public. In this first volume are contained fifty plates, all which, reprefenting the defigns of the original paintings, are admired as excellent proofs of the tafte and skill of the feveral artifts concerned in their execution; among whom we learn the names of Camillus Paderni, Nic. Banni, Franz. Lavega, Ph:1. Morghen, Nic. Billi, and Rocc. Porri. F To each plate the learned Editors have alfo added G proper explanations, intended as well for those who may not have the fatisfaction of viewing the originals, as for the direction of fuch as may have fo defirable an opportunity. There are alfo a great number of fmaller plates interfperfed, to which is alto annexed, a chart of the Gulph of Naples, and the adjacent country; the frontispiece at the fame time representing an elegant portrait of the monarch to whofe munificence and tafte we owe fo diftinguished a work, and to whom it is, with great propriety, infcribed. 4. The Hiftory of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres; for the year 1757. 4to. Berlin. Vol. II. May, 1759. Amidft that variety of enquiries of this famous Academy, there are none more generally interefting than fuch as they have agreed to rank in the clafs of Experimental Philofophy. The articles ranged under that head, in the prefent vol. are the following. 1. Confiderations on the globe; by Mr. le Comte written by the fame gentleman; containing, ade Redern. This is the fecond part of a memoir, mong other things of lefs note, a narrative published formerly by the famous traveller Quiros, and ferved in the collection of the brothers de Bry. pre 2. Experiments on the confervation of blood and other fluids, for many years, in vacuo; by Mr. Eller. Many experiments of this kind have been already made, but we know of none mere accurate and convincing than thefe of Mr. Eller: Who affures us he hath kept milk, wine, and human blood, under an exhaufted receiver, for upwards of fifteen years, i. c. from 1744, to the latter end of 1756; when, on re-examining the state of thofe fluids, he hardly found any alteration to Lave happened in them. The milk, indeed, had undergone a very finall change of its ftate, by the feparation of its cream: and the wine (Burgundy and Champagne) had depofited a very fmall fediment of tartar. The blood was neither diminished in quantity, nor altered in colour or confiftency; but perfectly refembled what is juft drawn from the vein: and, what is fill more furprizing, its component particles were found to have retained their spherical form, asappeared on examining them bya microscope. 3. An Elay on a new fpecies of metal, known by the name of Platina del Pinto, by Mr. Margraaf. The abilities of this academician, for making the moft difficult chemical experiments, are univerfally acknowledged: but as thofe which were made by Dr. Lewis, and publifhed in the 48th volume of the Philofophical Tranfactions, have rendered the Platina generally known in England, our Readers, we prefume, have the lefs curiofity to enter into the particulars of this article. 4. New obfervations on the Epidermis, or fearf fkin, and the brain of the Negroes; by Mr. Meckel. In the ninth volume of this hiftory were published fome of Mr. Meckel's former obfervations, which he made on the diffection of a Negio: another body having fince fallen into his hands, he thought proper to carry his enquiries ftill farther. He is of opinion, that there may be a fluid conveyed by the nerves, from the brain to the extremities; and that fuch a fluid is the occafion of the blackness of the skin of negroes: obferving, that there is a very manifeft difference in the colour of the brain of a Negro and an European. That of the former, fays he, is of a blackith yellow, while that of the latter is white. He obferves alfo, that the blood it felf differs in blacks and whites: for, inftead of flaining linen of a red colour, the blood of Negroes will turn it black. 5. Remarks on certain circumflances, wherein the fubjects of the Animal, refemble thofe of the Vegetable Kingdom; by Mr. Gleditsch. This Harticle relates to the great fimilitude there is be tween the propagation of plants and animals. The remarks are well worthy the ingenious betanif, their author. We have a treatife in English on the fame fubject, by Dr. Partons. 6. Chemical experiments on a fulphuregue earth, of a peculiar kind, difcovered near Lange'ta, in RI Silefia; |