stowed on them, for their conduct towards the native Americans.

After this essay on characters, we have a short review of the history of Louisiana, from the earliest establishment of the French in that province to the time of its being ceded to. 'Spain. Following the example of some of his predecessors who have written or professed to write American Travels, the author has introduced orations, said to have been delivered by Chiefs of the Indians: but his narrative and his descriptions possess too much of strong colouring, often heightened by those apostrophising addresses which abound in the literature of France, more than in that of any other country. In this historical picture, nevertheless, much interest is excited by the account of the cession of Louisiana to Spain; which exhibits the unfortunate condition of the inhabitants of a colony suddenly discarded by the mother country, and, without their having been in any way consulted, transferred to the dominion of a foreign power.

The advantages which the possession of Louisiana would yield to France, by increasing her commerce and the number of her shipping, and by being to her a nursery for seamen, are duly pointed out; and the expence which the colony will occasion to the mother country, the author insists, has been greatly exaggerated in the former representations. Population, however, is wanted; for, without reckoning the natives and the negroes, he estimates the number of persons in Louisiana at not more than 30,000. To remedy this defect, several expedients and regulations are proposed. France,' he says, without missing them, might send every year a thousand families to Louisiana; and at the end of ten years, there would be enough to form an immense population. This measure would dispose of numbers of young beggars who are a dishonour to the nation, and who perpetuate the love of idleness. It is, however, necessary that those who are sent by the government should be healthy and young, and especially that the women be not 50 years of age. In another place, he recommends that honest people only should be sent; and that those whose conduct should be foul not to answer the political views of the colony should be turned away. The slave-trade is proposed as another means of assisting the population; and here some maxims are advanced, which, if admitted, would afford an easy solution to the long-contested question of the justice of that trade. ist, No great nation can do without colonies. 2d, No slaves, no colonies. 3d, The slave-trade is so favourable to the Africans themselves, that policy accords with humanity in prescribing

its continuance. 4th, Liberty is a sort of food which does not agree with every stomach.

The accounts, as well as the descriptions in this work, which relate to the Indians, are of too general a nature to have the power of introducing a reader to their intimate acquaintance; an effect which has frequently been produced by travellers, in their relations of the most simple incidents. When the native Americans are mentioned, the author almost constantly applies to them the term les Sauvages. However truly this appellation may characterize them, the frequent use of it has not the most civilized appearance.

It is here related of the Chactaws (a people who dwell near the southern part of Louisiana), that jugglers or conjurors are their physicians: yet it must not be imagined that these physicians are entirely ignorant. They know perfectly how to cure the bite of the rattle-snake, and that of all other venomous animals. They succeed in healing gunshot wounds, and yet they use neither lint nor plaster: they reduce a certain root to powder, and blow it into the wounds; and with another powder, at the proper time, they make them heal and cicatrize. They have also a decoction of roots with which they bathe wounds that are gangrenous, and succeed in curing them.' These, surely, were secrets worth learning and communicating but the author has not given any additional information concerning the roots, nor even the name by which the Indians called them; and he appears to have been unconscious of the omission.

We shall not farther extend the account of this performance; to which the late political discussions respecting Louisiana attracted more of our attention than has been rewarded. It is evident that the author's views are taken in accordance with the design of France to retain the possession of that country; and the late information of its cession to the Americans renders many of his remarks inapplicable. The reader will not be surprized to find that it contains less information than he might expect, when the author acknowleges that he is not a botanist; and that with the sciences in general, he has very little acquaintance. Without such qualifications, it as not very advisable to attempt to compose a statistical description of a large province, and to explain the interests of the mother country concerning its establishment.

Capt. B...y.

Ακτ.

ART. XVII.

Mémoires sur les Fièvres Pestilentielles & Insidieuses du Levant, &c.; i. e. Memoirs on the Pestilential and Insidious Fevers of the Levant; with a Philosophical and Medical View of Lower Egypt. By PUGNET, Physician in the Army of Egypt, Dedicated to the First Consul. 8vo. pp. 266. Lyons and Paris. 1802. Imported by De Boffe, London. Price 5 s.

THE

HE first part of these memoirs is occupied by a general and interesting sketch of Lower Egypt; in which the author, after a survey of the physical state of the country, and the manners of the inhabitants, gives some curious information on the state of medical opinions and practice among them. He afterward enters into an examination of two important questions; first, whether the plague is endemic in Egypt; and secondly, whether it is possible to banish the disease from that country. Both these inquiries he answers in the affirmative. That the plague is endemic in Lower Egypt, he thinks, is proved by the uniform testimony of antient and modern writers; who continually represent it as being regularly visited by this scourge. He considers it as highly infectious, but as requiring a certain state of the air to favour its progress; and, though the seeds of the contagion remain inactive during the warmth of summer, he is of opinion that they are never altogether destroyed. In order to diminish its ravages, and finally to banish it, he recommends the constant use of quarantines and lazarettoes; and the employment of such measures for preventing the origin, or destroying the activity of contagion, as expétience has demonstrated to be effectual. He does not seem to be acquainted with the use of mineral acid purgations for this purpose.

The three next memoirs give an account of the plague as it appeared in Syria, and at Damietta and Cairo. The last is on the subject of the Dem-el-monia, a disease which has been de scribed by Prosper Alpinus, and which is very malignant and fatal. It is so called from two Arabic words signifying water and blood; it being meant from their combination to imply, that these two humours are principally altered in the disease.-The author is of opinion that the Dem el-monia differs from the Typhomania of the Greeks; and he describes it as being chiefly characterized by a vomiting, pain of the head, and phrensy, which attack suddenly, and speedily put an end to existence, Bark in large doses is the remedy to which he principally trusts for a cure.

Yell.

ART.

ART. XVIII. Notice des Ouvrages, &c. ; i. e, Notice respecting the
Works of M. D'Anville, to which is prefixed his Eulogy by M.
Dacier. 8vo. pp. 120. Paris. 1802. London, De Boffe.

T
HE object of this Netice is to announce a complete
edition of the works of this celebrated geographer, now
preparing at Paris, and for which subscriptions are solicited.
We highly approve the undertaking, and have no doubt of
its obtaining ample encouragement. M. D'Anville's fame is
not confined to France. By his labours, the study of geography
has been greatly facilitated; and he is one of many instances,
which prove how much may be accomplished by the talents of
an individual, when they are directed with uniformity and per-
severance to a single object or pursuit. Though he was
never more than forty leagues from Paris, he has given the
site of places with so much precision, in the various maps and
charts which he executed, that voyagers and travellers have
often acknowleged with gratitude bis singular accuracy. A
consciousness of the distinguished service which he had ren-
dered to his favourite science contributed to make him, as he
advanced in life, vain and narrative: but his eulogist excuses
this common defect of age, by observing that he united to the
qualities which tended to form a great geographer, all the vir-
tues of an estimable man..

As this eulogy is copied from the 45th volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions, and as no new particulars are exhibited of the life of D'Anville, we shall not quote details which are already before the public, especially as he died so recently as in January 1782, in the 85th year of his age. It is sufficient for us to add that, to the eulogy and the catalogue of his works, is prefixed an advertisement explanatory of the terms of the subscription. The proposed new and complete edition is intended to form six handsome quarto volumes, each: containing 6 or 700 pages, accompanied with an Atlas comprizing 62 maps and charts. It will, in all probability, be extensively acceptable; and since we have strangely neglected in this country the cultivation of the science of geography, (though indeed we have a Major Rennell among us, whom the French justly compliment with the title of the English D'Anville,) and all our geographical books labour under the want of a good Atlas, we may be allowed to hope that this publication will be translated into English, and the maps and charts carefully copied.

Mo-y.

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