veral warm fprings, with fome fcarce MSS. and a MS. Gospel of the 7th century. The stones near Cliffa and Sciga, in Morlachia, are full of coals, very light, and evidently productions of a volcano. A fine cataract of the river Cettina, one hundred and fifty feet high, is here delineated on a copper-plate. Pegliza is inhabited by a fmall colony of Hungarians, whofe conftitution is faid to bear fome refemblance to the English government. Every village chufes annually an inferior count, or magiftrate, and thefe magiftrates in their turn annually chufe a great count: their elections are attended with violence. But thefe republicans, who in other respects are a friendly hofpitable people, accept of a fine of forty dollars for a murder. The remora is here still thought to impede the course of a veffel. The air near the maritime town of Macarska has been greatly improved by draining a morafs. Here the fea has visibly increased; as the has alfo at Venice, where the cifterns and public places must be raised from time to time, and the warehouses are notwithstanding liable to inundations. Narona, formerly a flourifhing place, in a fertile country, is now an unwholefome morass, whofe peculiar disease has been described by Pujati. Count Grubbificho at Tuffepi, proprietor of a fine eftate, a great improver of the rural economy of his country. A priapeian faun, by the poor country people mistaken and worfhipped for a faint Roch. A lake at Comrich, rifing like that of Zirknitz, from periodical springs. In the islands of Lefina and Brazza, Signor Fortis expunges a number of towns and fortreffes, as exifting no where but in books and maps. The best Dalmatian wines grow in the islands of Brazza and Arbe, the latter of which, though but thinly inhabited, contains no less than fix convents, and fix hundred priests. Thefe and fome neighbouring iflands produce alfo the finest white marble for ftatuaries, preferable even to that of Carrara.

This fecond volume contains 204 pages, one map, and fix plates. By the extracts here given, it appears that Signor Fortis' remarks in his journey through Dalmatia and its adjacent islands, are chiefly interesting to naturalifts and geographers.

FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 17. Eloge hiftorique de l'Univerfité de Paris. Par M. J. Hazon, Et. 4to. Paris.

THE celebrated univerfity of Paris is very ancient, and arose as it

were spontaneously, from a concourfe of learned men, who gave lectures without any appointment or penfion from government. Their numbers were firit limited in 1074 and 1138, by regulations excluding all unlicenfed teachers. Philip Auguftus found in 1200; a great number of profeffors at Paris, to whom he granted additional prerogatives and privileges. The univerfity was at firft entirely fecular, and when the pope, in 1229, forced her to adinit monk's among the profeffors, fe at leaft limited their number. In 1158; the appointed meffengers in behalf of her ftudents, which occafioned the establishment of poft-offices in France. Her credit and authority increased with her age, and often proved ufeful to government and to the kingdom. Several of the French kings applied to her, when excommunicated by the popes. The univerfity has conftantly maintained the fuperiority of general councils over popes; her deputies to the councils at Pifa, Conftance, and Bafil were ftyled and admitted as ambaffadors. Henry II. of England referred his

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difputes with the famous archbishop Becket to the arbitration of the Parisian univerfity. She maintained the useful pragmatic fanction to the utmost of her power; and during the two laft centuries firmly oppofed the increafing and exorbitant credit of the Jefuits. Her elogium by Dr. Hazon is interesting, and illuftrated, with historical notes.

18. Daniæ et Sueciæ Litterata Opufcula, Hift. Philolog. Theologica, Edidit Jo. Oelrichs, S. T. D. & P. P. O. Tom. 1. 8vo. Bremæ.

A collection and republication of several differtations of various merits. 1. Differtatio de Convenientia Lingua Perficæ cum Gothica, Upfal, 1723. 2. Diff. de Adagiis Suo-Gothicis, Upf. 1769. 3. Diff. de Eddis Inlandicis, Upf. 1735. 4. Schediafma de Gladiis veterum, imprimis Danorum, Havniæ, 1752, with three pages of Litteraria Suecica de libris memoratu dignis.

If conducted with a ftricter choice, and on another plan, a collection of abftracts from the moft remarkable northern publications, would be an acceptable present to the public at large.

19. Hiftoire critique de la Decouverte des Longitudes, par l'Auteur de Aftronomie des Marins. (M. Pezenas.) 8vo. Paris. With Cuts. Containing a minute detail of all the paft attempts of finding the longitudes by means of marine watches, or time-keepers; and all the problems that are neceffary for the obfervation of latitudes, illuftrated by rules and examples.

20. Détail des Succès de l'Établissement que la Ville de Paris a fait en Faveur des Perfonnes noyées, & qui a été adopté dans diverfes Provinces de France. Troisieme Partie, Année 1774. &c. par M. Piat. Out of fifty-four perfons that were drowned at Paris in 1774, thirty-five were reftored to life by this very laudable inftitution feven could not be recovered; and twelve were either not found, or found too late to admit any profpect of recovery.

Befides the lift of those that were drowned at Paris, and the details of the various fucceffes of the attempts for their recovery, this third volume gives, under feventeen articles, an account of perfons drowned in the provinces of France, and in feveral foreign countries; with a concife chronological lift of other fimilar charitable inftitutions; and concludes with the continuation of an account of all the books published on the means of recovering drowned perfons.

Several of the cafes here related are remarkable, efpecially that of one Mr. Gatbois: and these institutions will always deferve the warmest wishes and fupport of humanity.

21. Mémoire fur Venus, auquel l'Académie Royale des Infcriptions et Belles Lettres a adjugé le Prix de la S. Martin, 1773. 12mo. Paris. The question was to inveftigate: What were the various names and attributes of Venus among the feveral nations in Greece and Italy; the origin and reafons of thefe attributes; her worship; the famous ftatues, temples, and pictures of that goddess, and who the artists that rendered themselves famous by thefe works.

The whole of this comprehenfive question has with great erudition been answered by M. Larcher, to the fatisfaction of the Academy, in this very curious and entertaining performance.

22. Perrin et Laurette, par. M. d'Avelne. Paris. An agreeable drama in profe, intermixed with fongs. Vol. LXI. April, 1776.

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23. Mifcella Veritates de Rebus Medicis, Fafciculus Primus. Au&ore J. Henrico Lange, M. D. 8vo. Luneburgh.

A valuable collection of remarks, experiments, cautions, and fimple, easy remedies and specifics, tried by the author himself. 24. Expofition de la Foi Chrétienne, fuivie d'une courte Refutation des principales Erreurs de l'Eglife Romaine, par G. Mallet, Miniftre du St. Evangile. 5 Vols. 8vo. Geneve.

This work is not defigned for a fyftem of divinity, but for the inftruction of private families. The first volume contains a concise, folid, and inftructive abstract of the hiftorical parts of the Bible. The fecond, a plain theory of religion drawn up according to the fymbolum of the apoftles; the third and fourth, a courfe of ethics; and the fifth, a confutation of the Roman catholic religion.

MONTHLY CATALOGU E.

MEDICAL.

25. An Essay on the Blood. By G. Levifon, M. D. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

Davies.

HE defign of this Effay is to prove the reality of a docTtrine which, perhaps, to many readers may appear to

be a little whimfical; viz. that the blood is alive. In order to eftablish this point, the author has recourfe to the Hebrew Bible, from which he produces various authorities for the literal application of the idea of life to the vital fluid. We hold in the highest veneration and regard, that facred repofitory of religious and moral inftruction; but we never can, with the Hutchinsonian fect of philofophers, admit that it was intended to convey to mankind the principles of natural knowledge. In phyfical science, human teftimony and reafon afford the only criterion of truth which the mind can either expect or require. We by no means contend for the weight of poetical authority on philofophical fubjects; but we cannot help being of opinion, that Dr. Levifon might with as much propriety have endeavoured to confirm his hypothefis by the evidence of Homer and Virgil, who abound with innumerable expreffions directly in favour of his opinion. Let not the doctor imagine, that we mean to be jocular. Perhaps the general fenfe of mankind respecting the indifpenfible neceffity of blood for the prefervation of life, is fufficient to obviate all the apprehenfions which Dr. Levison entertains, of the dangerous confequences that may refult from a difbelief that the blood is really alive. The ignorance of a furgeon who could exhaust the veins of his patient in defiance of that doctrine, would indeed be tremendous.

26. A Letter from the celebrated Dr. Tiflot, to Dr. Zimmerman, on the Morbus Niger, &c. 8vo. Is. Kearly. The cafes of a few patients are here related diftinctly, and a rational method of cure is advifed; but we meet not with any observation that has a claim to novelty.

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27. Medical Advice for the Ufe of the Army and Navy, in the preJent American Expedition. By William Rowley, M. D. 8vo. IS. Newbery.

This pamphlet contains fuch a plain account of the treatment of diseases incident at fea, and likewife in hot climates, as is adapted to the comprehenfion of perfons unacquainted with medical fubjects; and it may therefore prove of some advantage to thofe for whom it is intended.

28. Tracts on Medical Subjects. By Charles Efte. 410. 15. 6d. Davies.

These tracts relate chiefly to inflammatory tumours, refpe&ting which the author confiders the propriety of evacuation, refolvent applications, fuppuration, and the mode of opening the tumour. We afterwards meet with a Qure on the gonorrhoea, and on subjects relating to Offeous Matter, with fome Remarks on the Ufe of Iffues. The author informs us in an advertisement, that this production is intended as a mere testimonial, that he can write a legible label, and that if a patient can fuppofe his disease curable by a spell, he may be apprifed of a shop that participates of that remedy.' From the total want of any pretenfions to novelty on the fubjects of thefe tracts, we fhould indeed imagine, that Mr. Efte must have had fome other motive for publishing them than a defire of communicating ufeful knowledge. We cannot, however, admit the apology which is pleaded in the following paffage.

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Profeffionally speaking, it is an error loci when the produc tions of an apothecary go the prefs; yet, cogor fatis, mine are thrust into it by my condition, and by the impulfes of my duty; my cacoethes is fui generis, neither hereditary nor acquired, but imposed on me by my profeflion, as certainly, as on the chimney-fweeper his cancer, or the painter his disease, or on the profeffor of any other exercitation his technical and peculiar complaint.'

Should this author prefent the public with any more of his obfervations (for who knows what may be the confequence of a c@coethes fui generis?) we would advife him to guard against all affectation of wit and humour, which is entirely unfuitable to medical subjects, and, to use his own expreffion, an error loci.

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DIVINIT 29. Reflexions on the Growth of Heathenifm among modern Chrif tians; in a Letter to a Friend at Oxford. 8vo. Is. Rivington. The author of these Reflexions, having observed, that the fub. jects of the ornamental arts are now almost universally taken from the heathen mythology, is perfuaded, that this prevailing tafte is an indication of the growth of heathenifm amongst us.

In one of our churches, he fays, he has feen a monument with elegant figures, as large as the life, of the three Fates, Clotho, Lachefis, and Atropos, fpinning and clipping the thread of a great man's life: by which the man is taken, as it were,

out of the hands of the true God, and turned over to heathen deftiny; and a Chriftian church profaned with idols. He obferves, that in the gardens of Stowe, the temples of the Pagan deities are placed in full view; while the parish church, which happens to ftand within the precincts, is induftrioufly shrouded behind ever-greens and other trees, as an object impertinent, or at leaft of no importance to a fpectator of modern tafte; that in our villas we have temples to all the pagan divinities; and in the metropolis, a pantheon, in which there is a general affembly of the fons and daughters of pleasure, under the aufpices of the whole tribe of heathen demons.

Sometimes, fays he, the productions of this tafte are monftrously abfurd and incongruous. When I fee the dragon upon Bow fteeple, I can only wonder how an emblem fo expreffive of the devil, and frequently introduced as fuch into the temples of idolaters, found its way to the fummit of a Christian edifice. I am so jealous in thefe matters, that I must confefs myself to have been much hurt by a like impropriety in a well-known mufic-room, where there is an organ confecrated by a superfcription to Apollo, altho' the praifes of Jehovah are generally celebrated by it once every month in the choral performances: and it feems rather hard that Jehovah should condescend to be a borrower, while Apollo is the proprietor.'

He traces thefe tokens of paganifm in fome of the sciences; and expatiates on the impropriety of introducing heathen deities into Chriftian compofitions: as Milton does, when he compares Adam and Eve to Jupiter and Juno *; and Dr. Young, in his Night-Thoughts †, when he fays,

That more than miracle the gods indulge.'

In the pagan machinery, there is fomething extremely grand and beautiful, and admirably adapted to the genius of poetry; yet as the author obferves, when we write under the character of Chriftians, we should keep up to the ftyle of our profeffion; when we lay the fcene upon Pagan ground, we may then adopt the language of heathen writers.'

Sit quidvis fimplex duntaxat et unum.'

The author has made feveral obfervations on these incongruous affociations, the propriety of which will be immediately admitted; but we cannot fo implicitly allow, that any pernicious effects, with refpect to religion and morality, can arife from the introduction of the heathen mythology into poetry and the ornamental arts.

50. Joy in Heaven, and the Creed of Devils. Two Sermons preached October 29, 1775. By Auguftus Toplady, A. B. 8vo. 15. Vallance and Simmons.

Thefe difcourfes on Joy in Heaven, and the Creed of Devils, are founded on Luke xv. 7. and James ii. 19.

Paradife Loft, iv. 499.

+ Night ii. p. 24.

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