most striking prospects. We know not that this plan has been executed. He afterwards staid more than a year at the Cape of Good Hope, where he collected many observations on its philosophic state, its inhabitants, &c. These do not greatly differ from the accounts of former travelers; but the author adds somewhat to our geographic knowledge of this remote part of Africa. In his excursions, he reached Stellenbosch, Franshuk, Paarl, and its environs; and gives a view of the political state of the colony, the manners, customs, diversions, &c. of its inhabitants. Cape Town is described with accuracy, as well as its bays, mountains, gulfs, productions, &c.

On the declaration of war against France, the author was ordered to convoy the vessels of the Dutch East-India company to Europe, and particularly to Ireland. He collected some curious accounts of Cork, of the coasts of Ireland, and its inhabitants. In February, 1794, he returned to Holland; and his next volume will contain his other voyages. We shall notice it on its first appearance.

DENMARK.

Zeittscheift für die Forstwissenschaft. Journal of Forest Science. Published by A. Hartmann and C. P. Lautropp. Vol. I. No. 1. Svo. Copenhagen.--This very valuable journal cannot be too soon known. The authors propose to collect unpublished memoirs on the science of forests; observations in natural history, chemistry, &c. relative to it; memoirs respecting its legal history, its geography; translations and extracts from larger works; tariffs of the ancient and modern prices of wood in different countries; the forest-laws of different kingdoms; the annual progress of public or private establishments of forests; meteorological observations relative to forests; and an account of new books. The memoirs, hitherto unpublished, are-1. A memoir to assist the history of forestal economy in the country of Wirtemberg; 2. On the projected revison of the forest-laws in the Marche of Brandenburg, by M. de Weddel; 3. On the structure of the flower of pines, by Hartmann; in which he has demonstrated the flowers of the pinus, thuja, and cupressus, very completely.

Ón the subject of forestal geography, we find an account of the present state and the cultivation of the forests of Russia. Among the Extracts' are--A memoir of Hiem, on the height and strength of forest trees; 2. A comparison of the heat of charcoal and turf; from which it appears that the heat of the latter is twice as strong as that of the former. In the miscellaneous articles is the plan of a new forestal institute at Stutgard, and of that of the society of physicians and philosophers of Suabia,

Epidemic catarrhal fever at Bath, Gentz's answer to Hauterive, Ex-