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volume likewife contains a general view of the natural history of North Ameria, with reflections on its prefent ftate with refpect to population, manners and commerce. These reflections introduce a series of obfervations on the prefent interefting conteft between Great Britain and America, of which, as a feparate work, an English translation has been given, under the title of, The Revolution of America, printed for L. Davis: a publication which we have already noticed, with fome intimation of a fufpicion, which then feemed to us well-grounded, but which now appears to have been taken up without fufficient foundation. To this volume are prefixed the following tables: The ftate of the French fisheries in Newfoundland, &c. The imports and exports between Great Britain and her Colonies, from 1697 to 1773: The trade of North-America with the WeftIndies, Africa, Great Britain, and the Continent of Europe, for the year 1769; and a general table of the fhipping of NorthAmerica for the fame year. This laft table contains fuch useful information, that we fhall lay it before our Readers.

TABLEAU GÉNÉRAL DE LA NAVIGATION DE L'AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE.
Depuis le premier Janvier 1769, jufqu'au premier Janvier 1770.

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APP. Rev. Vol. LXVÍ.

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The tenth and laft volume confifts entirely of general reflections on the following fubjects: religion, government, policy, war, naval affairs, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, population, taxes, public credit, the fine arts, philofophy, morals, and the effects of the difcovery of America. In this part of the work, the Author unfolds his opinions at large, and without referve: and they are for the moft part so original and curious, and often fo contrary to the notions which are commonly received, that there is no doubt of their enga ging a very confiderable fhare of the public attention, and confequently, on fome future occafion paffing again under our infpection. This expectation, together with the great difficulty of making a felection from materials which are fo interefting throughout, induce us at prefent to content ourselves with a general notice of thefe volumes.

To this edition of the Abbé Raynal's Hiftory is added, in quarto, an Atlas, drawn up on purpose for the work, confifting of 49 maps; to which is prefixed a fuccin&t analysis, explaining the maps, and enumerating the authorities on which they are conftructed.

ART. XI.

The following CORRESPONDENCE was intended for the Month of June, but came too late for Infertion.

ITAL Y.

ATURAL hiftory, which is now become doubly interest

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Ning by its new alliance with chemiftry and experimental

philofophy, fees its votaries multiply daily, and is cultivated in Italy with unremitting ardour and fuccefs. A new production in this line has been lately published at Turin and Milan under the following title, Mineralogie Sicilienne, Docimaftique et Metallurgique, &c. i. e. Sicilian, docimaftic, and metallurgical mineralogy, or an account of all the minerals contained in the island of Sicily, with a circumftantial defcription of the mines and quarries, and a hiftory of all the works that have been carried on in them, both in ancient and modern times. To which is fubjoined, a Sicilian minero-hydrology, or a defcription of all the mineral waters of that ifland, together with 13 tables, containing the earths, ftones, falts, bitumens, metals, femi-metals, mineralizers, mineral waters hot and cold, which are known in Sicily. By the author of the Sicilian Lithology. 8vo. Price 5 French livres. 1782.

Lettres fur la Sicile et fur l'Ile de Malte, &c. i. e. Letters concerning Sicily and the Ifle of Malta, written in the Years 1776 and 1777, by Count DE BORCH, Member of several Aca

Malta.

2 vols. 8vo. Thefe letters contain

demies, to the Count C. of V. and defigned as a Supplement to Mr. Brydone's Travels in Sicily and Turin, 1782. Price 11 French livres. fome new inftruction; and Count BORCI has augmented the number of interefting obfervations made on this famous island by preceding travellers. This work is enriched with 27 plates, engraven by Mr. Chr. De l'Acqua, of Vicenza, an artift of the first rate; as alfo with three maps, which reprefent ancient and modern Sicily, and the environs of Mount Etna. All thefe plates and maps were engraven after the original drawings of Count BORCH, except the view of the temple of Juno-Lucina, at Agrigentum, which is executed after the draw. ing of Mr. Ph. Hockert, whole productions are well known to the connoiffeurs.

Opufcoli, &c. i. e. Phyfico-Chymical Treatifes (Opufcula', by M. LANDRIANI. 8vo. Milan, 1781. The Chevalier LANDRIANI is an adept in experimental philofophy and chemistry, and has already given the public feveral proofs of his knowledge and talents in the fe combined walks of science. Of the five treatifes contained in the work before us, the first exhibits an account of a machine invented by him, by means of which it may be known, at a fingle obfervation, how much rain has fallen in a day, as also the time and duration of its fall. The fecond contains a method of varnishing butterflies and other infects, in order to preferve their form and colours. The fubject of the third is the converfion of all acids into one. The Author undertakes to demonftrate, that all acids may be changed into fixed air, i. e. into aerial acid; and he concludes from thence, that the acid of fixed air ought to be confidered as the univerfal acid. The fourth treatise contains an account of all the difcoveries that have been hitherto made relative to that kind of fire which exifts in bodies, without giving any external mark of its prefence; this matter is illuftrated by new experiments and obfervations. In the fifth and laft, M. LANDRIANI fhews, that dephlogisticated air may be obtained not only from the nitrous acid, but alfo from the vitriolic, marine, and arfenical acids,

Lezioni, &c. i. e. Lectures on Disorders of the Eyes, for the Ufe of the New Univerfity, founded by the King of Naples, in the Hospital for Incurables. By M. MICHAEL TROJA, Royal Profeffor in that University. 8vo. 403 Pages, with Two Plates. Naples, 1781.-The fixteen lectures, contained in this volume, are divided into three fections. The first treats of the anatomy of the eye, and of every part of it relative to vifion. The fecond, of the diforders incident to the external parts that furround the globe of the eye. The third, of the diforders of the eye itself, and of its various membranes.

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