their native colours. He accordingly made frequent, perilous, and, we may add, learned excurfions through the Alpine regions, in company with a celebrated Natural Historian *, and an eminent Landscape Painter +; and these excurfions have produced a series of beautiful and interefting pictures, accompanied each with a learned defcription, which will throw new light upon the topography, curiofities, and Natural Hiftory of a country, now much frequented by English travellers.

The late celebrated Baron HALLER, who perufed the defcriptions, and examined the drawings, that form the contents of this work, compofed a PREFACE which will be prefixed to it: and the manner in which he speaks of it, is the higheft poffible teftimony that can be given to its merit. We have this Preface now before us, and it is worthy of the great man who penned it. He expreffes, with ardor, his zeal for the fuccefs of this noble work he declares it fuperior to any thing of the kind that has yet appeared; I dare anfwer,' fays he, for its favourable reception, and I am perfuaded it will fulfil both the expectations and defires of the curious. Eight journies that I have made along the northern ridge of the Alpine Mountains, have enabled me to judge of the accuracy and merit of the defcriptions and drawings that are here offered to the public."

In the publication of this work by fubfcription, the Editor has avoided every thing that might render his proposals difagreeable, or look like an impofition on the liberality of those who are generously difpofed to contribute to the advancement of ufeful knowledge, and the fine arts; for no part of the payment is required of the Subfcribers beforehand, as appears from the fifth article of the conditions, which are as follows:

Ift. Thirty-fix drawings (which will perhaps be encreased to forty) are felected from the rich collection of Mr. WAGNER, which will be fufficient to convey a clear and accurate idea of the moft curious views that are exhibited by the Alps.

2dly. Each number will contain fix plates, engraven in colours after the original pictures or drawings. Thefe engravings will be executed under the infpection of Mr. VERNET, by Mr. JANINET, an artift of the greateft merit. A fheet of printed text, of the fame fize with the plates (i. e. in large folio) will accompany each number, and contain a compendious fummary defcription of the fix plates which compofe it.-Thefe plates, feparated from the text, may be glazed and framed as ornaments to a cabinet, or, bound with it, may add to the riches of a library.

3dly. A frontispiece, with the learned Preface of Mr. Haller, as alfo a profile of the Alps, with the names of the peaks and

*The Rev. Mr. WYTTENBACH, of Bern.
+The ingenious Mr. WOLFF.

mountains,

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Subfcriptions are taken in by Meffieurs Alexander Aubert and
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ART. XIX.

Eloge de Nicholas Pouffin, &c. i. e. The Eulogy of NICHOLAS
POUSSIN. 8vo. 56 pages. 1784.

THE prize was adjudged to this piece by the Royal Aca-
demy of Rouen. It is the production of M. N. GUIBAL,
firft painter to the Duke of Wurtemberg, and director of his
gallery of pictures, &c. and it is a very elegant performance.

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**The following is an extract of a Letter from Prof. LESKE,
of Leipzig, (a man of confiderable eminence in his line of litera-
ture) to a worthy Correfpondent of our's, at whose request we
here infert it, in hope that it may prove of fome use toward
increafing the communication between men of letters, from
which fo much benefit often accrues to the progress of science.
Poft abitum tuum mortuo Reichelio, coactus fui directionem &
editionem Commentariorum de rebus, &c. fufcipere. Si poffis in An-
glico quodam diario hoc inferere, atque meo nomine rogare auctores,
ut ad me mittant libros novos & alia nova phyfico-medica, (mutabo
enim paulo inftituti rationem,) quæ his commentariis inferantur, gra-
tum reddes. Alii enim libri, nifi qui ad me mittuntur, non cito in-
feruntur, fed tum demum, cum jam cogniti fint ut boni ex Anglicis
diariis. Sed quo citius ad me mittuntur eo citius etiam inferuntur."
Dabam Lipfie. Sept. 28, 1783.

INDEX

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

Acine, mineral, chemical inveftigations BALL

BOLINGBROKE, Lord, his fcepticifm ar
raigned, 93. His converfation with
Lady Huntingdon, on prayer, 373-
BOTANY, and natural hiftory, progrefs

of, 2.
BOUCHAUTE, M. Van, his memoir con-
cerning the origin and nature of ani-
mal fubftance, 526. His effay on the
reproduction of organized Beings, and

ed edition, 473. Its wonderfully rapid
fale, 474.

CoxwELL, acc. of the parish of, 114.
CROYDON, acc. of the town, archiepif-
copal palace, &c. 112.
CROYLAND, Abbey, hiftory and antiqui-
ties of, 110.

the continuation of each pies, D

ARCET, M. his French tranflation
of Fontana on poisons, 586.
D'AUVERGNE, his defeription of an hif.
torical monument in Britanny, 268.
DENNE, Mr. his obfervations on Ro-
chefter Caftle, 356.

DOBBS, Mr. his zeal for the difcovery of
a N. W. paffage, from Hudfon's Bay,
463.
DODDRIDGE, Dr. his refpectable cha-
racter, 54.

DOUGLAS, Rev. Dr. Editor of Captain
Cook's laft voyage, 461.

Du Bois, M. his tranflation of M.
Achard's Analyfis of precious ftones,
572.
DURANDE, M. his Memoir concerning a
diffolvent for biliary ftones, 522.

CATERPILLAR, the black, canker kind, E^

deftructive to turnips, Ico.

CAVENDISH, Mr. his account of a new
eudiometer, 28.

CEVADILLA, or fmall Indian barley,
fome acc. of, 523.

CHATELET, Marquise de, her attach-
ment to Voltaire, 575. Her literary
accomplishments, 576.

CHINA, curious particulars relative to,
555. State of population in that em-
pire. 560. Emperor of, his excellent
character, 561.

CHINESE, their peculiar, manner of
doing public bufinefs, 555. Their
great attention to journalizing the
events of the times, 558. Their grand
annals, ib. Some account of another
work of theirs, on government and
morals, 559.

CHOISEUL, Count de, his voyage from
the Meander to the Gulph of Adra-
mytti, 566. To Ephefus and Smyrna,
567. His acc. of the Maniotes, ib.
His idea of the ancient fpirit of the
Greeks, fill latently fubfifting in their
modern defcendants, ib.
CIBOT, the Miffionary, his Effay on the
writing of the Chinete, 557.
COMEDIES, in Rhime, acc. of three, by
Mr. Hayley, 289. This mode de-
fended, ib.

Cook, Capt. James, his laft voyage to the
Pacific Ocean, 461. His journal, now
exifting, in his own hand-writing, 472.
Particular embellishments of the print-

ARTHQUAKES. See HAMILTON,
EAST-Indies, commercial and po-
litical obfervations rel. to the prefent
ftate of British affairs in that country,
74, 152, 233, 305.
EDGWORTH, Mr. his experiments on
the refiftance of air, 101.
ELECTRICAL matter, how far affected
by bell-ringing, in thunder- ftorms,
527. Its influence on vegetables, 533.
ELECTRICITY. See EXCITATION.
See MoscATI. See ToALDO.
ACHARD. See MAGIOTTO.
NEEDHAM. See VEGETABLES.
ELOQUENCE of the pulpit, rules for, 175.
EPHESUS, remains of, 567.
ENGLEFIELD, Sir Henry, his acc. of

See

See

Reading Abbey, 263. His opinion of
certain remains of Roman antiquity in
York, 265. His additions to Mr.
King's acc. of Lincoln Caftle, 365.
ESQUIMAUX, Mr. Hearne's acc. of that
people, 464. Their extreme wretch-
edness, ib.

ESSEX, Mr. his obf. on the antiquity of
round churches, 351.

EUDIOMETER. See CAVENDISH.
EUPHORBIA peplus, difficulty of invefti-
gating this genus of plants, II.
EXCITATION of the electrical machine,
hints for improvement in, 283.

FA

cal-

AGARAS. See PAP.
FIRE, its manner of acting on
careous earth, &c. afcertained, 497.
FLUIDS, theory of the motion of, 498.
FONTANA,

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