roughbridge, Aldborough, Knaresbo-
rough, Plumpton, Harrogate, Hare-
wood House, and Bolton Priory; in
tended as a Guide to Persons visiting those
Places. Illustrated with Wood Cuts and
a Ground Plan of Fountains Abbey.
Second Edition, with Additions.
pp. 114. Longman and Co.

8vo.

A pleasing and useful Companion to Visitors of all or any of the places detailed in the Title-page. Take for example one short specimen:

"Harewood House, the seat of the Earl of Harewood, is 8 miles from Leeds, 8 from Harrowgate, and 10 from Knaresborough. This magnificent and justly-admired mansion was built by the late Mr. John Muschamp, of Harewood, under the directions of Mr. Adams of London, and Mr. Carr of York. The foundation was laid in March 1759, by the late Lord Harewood, whose father Henry Lascelles, Esq. purchased the estate in 1739, of the trustees of the late John Boulter, Esq. It is situated on the top of a hill fronting to the South, and commanding a rich home view, over fields and woods, with oue slight exception, nearly all his own.' This, says Dr. Whitaker, is a fortunate place, blessed with much natural beauty and fertility, and in the compass of a country village, with nearly an entire though dismantled Castle, a modern palace surrounded by a wide extent of pleasure grounds and plantations, and a Parish Church filled with unmutilated sculptures of the 14th and 15th centuries.'

"The whole length of the building is 248 feet 6 inches, and the width 84 feet, consisting of a centre and two wings, displaying all the richness of Corinthian Ar. chitecture. The apartments are numerous and large, and finished in the first style of elegance, and with great taste. The ceilings are, many of them, richly ornamented from designs of Rebecci and others; and the whole of this princely mansion is fitted up with so much costly elegance, yet usefulness evidently united, that no elaborate description can do it justice."

This beautiful mansion, through the liberality of the noble Proprietor, may be viewed every Saturday, from 11 till 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

74. Moral Sketches of prevailing Opinions
and Manners, &c. With Reflections on
Prayer.
8vo.
By Hannah More.
Cadell and Davies.
THE renewed satisfaction we have
experienced at being again invited to
the intellectual banquet which this re-
fined Champion of Christian Truth
has again set before us, demands our

most respectful veneration—and we sincerely rejoice to find, by the vigour and accuracy which dignify the pages of this little work, that there are some plants of our native soil which in the autumn of their existence do not yet shew any evidence of decline. Her preface, as a polished vestibule, introduces us to the more elaborate decoration of the temple-well selected and judiciously proportioned-in no compartment weak or left unfinished, and in solidity or beauty, neither laboured nor frivolous.

She laments, with to us very congenial sensations, the unwise practices of modern fashionable absences from home, and marks their severe and almost fatal consequences; to which we have no hesitation in subjoining, that much of the present murmurs of the people, and their want of employment, are to be ascribed; for we have found that no less than 30,000 English persons were residing last autumn in Paris; and each of them spending not less than 101. per week, without any immediate design of departure-if they remained

there one month this sum amounted to 300,000l.; if they remained for one quarter of a year they injured the trade and manufactures, and all the other domestic employments incident to their station at home, to the enormous amount of 3,600,000l. It was proverbial that they kept the shops of Paris alive-and inasmuch as this was true, so did our shops in London languish into bankruptcy, and beggary, and profligate idleness! There is nothing left for them now than to return, and to sell all that they have and give to the poor-the condition of many of whom is of their own creation!-But Mrs.Hannah More offers other reasons for discontinuing the desertion of national welfare; for which we must refer to the preface itself.

"The SKETCHES," as she modestly calls them, are portraits well drawn, with the discriminating hand of a mistress in her art-her bolder features remind us of the chisel of Phidias, while in her more refined attitudes she seems to have borrowed the finishing hand of Canova. In these remarks we more particularly allude to her "Foreign Sketches," where her "associations," and the well-contrasted "French and English opinions of the Society of each, exemplify the

fulness

77. A Chronological History of North Eastern Voyages of Discovery, and of the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians. By Captain James Burney, F.R. S. Payne and Foss.

IN vol. LXXXVI. ii. pp. 50, 242, we gave an account of Capt. Burney's Voyages in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. Since then the Captain has published a Chronological History of Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea, at the end of which he alluded to an opinion formerly expressed by him that the Discoveries of the Rus

sians might form a Supplement to his General History. But he found it necessary to abandon his design, because he was not sufficiently acquainted with the Russian language, and because the early expeditions of the Russians in the Eastern Sea have but little connexion with the early Discoveries made by other nations. For these and other reasons, he formed the determination, and we think judiciously, to give his History of the North-eastern Voyages of Discovery and of the early Eastern Navigation of the Russians, as a distinct work.

So much having been performed, and written with respect to a Northeastern and Western passage, and Mr. Burney having lately printed his own Memoir of the Geography of the North Eastern part of Asia (from the Philosophical Transactions) *, and having embodied in the present work, Captain Cook's Voyages to the Northwest coast of America, and through Bering's Straits, publishes his present History, we apprehend, at a very fa. vourable juncture; and, from what appears in the narrative, it is given, not hastily, but after some personal observation, and well-digested reflection, From an inspection of the contents of the present volume it will appear, that it involves much general and curious matter, and that, at the same time, from the nature of the investigation of Russian Discoveries, it has of necessity a strong bearing on the question relating to a Northern passage. Captain Burney expresses his opinion in his memoir, read before the Society, Dec. 11, 1817, that "there does not exist any satisfactory proof of a separation of America and Asia, that Asia and America

*See it copied into our vol. LXXXVIII. į: pp. 302, 401.

are contiguous, parts of one and the same Continent." And he observes, that his opinion "was not newly formed, but one that was impressed on other persons as well as himself, by circumstances witnessed when in the sea to the North of Bering's Strait with Capt. Cook in his last voyage." As many observations in harmony with these sentiments occur in this volume (though the contrary opinion is now held by many) it may be expected, that the strongest arguments that can be produced in favour of Capt. Burney's opinion will be brought forward and illustrated in the present pages.

With respect to land Northward, when in North Lat. 70° 29', Long.161° 42 West, he observes,

"We plied to the Westward, making short boards between the ice and the land. Frequent flocks of wild ducks and geese were seen, and noticed to be directing their flight to the South. Captain Cook demands, Does not this indicate that there must be land to the North where these birds find shelter in the proper season to breed, and from whence they were now returning to a warmer climate?"

This is the first of a number of circumstances noticed, all tending to the same point; he produces those circumstances at large. This opinion, however, is delivered only in the form of a conjecture. He inclines to the general belief at present, that if a navigable Northern passage shall ever be found from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, the entrance into the Pacific will be through Bering's Strait. We shall not enter on a critical examination of these points.

We present our Readers, as a specimen, with the following account of the "Invasion of Kamtschatka; and of Evidence collected concerning the Discovery of Lands in the Icy Sea:"

"It is said, that the Russians first heard of Kamtschatka about 1690; but it is more probable, that they received notice of it immediately on their establishing themselves on the Anadir. We find them at that time extending their enterprizes Southward towards the Penschinska; but no expedition along the outer coast, South

ward, was undertaken by them till the year 1696, when a troop of 16 Kossaks travelled in that direction, not quite so far as to the river since named the River of Kamtschatka. They plundered some of the Northern Kamtschadale villages under the name of exacting tribute, and returned

returned to the Addirsk, Among the things taken by them from the Kamtschadales, were I writings in an unknown language,' afterwards ascertained to be Japanese. The following year 1697, Wolodimer Atlassow, a Kossak officer, undertook, and was employed by the Jakutyk Government, to conquer Kamtschatka. He departed from Jakutyk with a few followers, gaining first to the Kobyma, and thence over land to the Anadir. A report made by him of his expedition was taken down in writing before one of the tribunals at Moscow. He was four weeks making his journey from the Kolyma to the Anadir, but it was usually performed in three. He remarks, that between the Kolyma and the Anadir there are two promontories or great capes, called the Tschalatakoi Nos, and the Nos Anadirskoi; that both these capes cannot be doubled by any vessel, because in summer the Western coast of the first is barred with floating ice, and in winter, the sea there is frozen; whilst at the second, which is towards the Anadirsk, the sea is clear and without ice. At the Anadirsk Fort, Atlassow was reinforced with 60 Kossaks and a number of volunteers. Against this force the Kamtschadales could make no resistance. Atlassow describes Kamtschadales to be smaller in stature than the inhabitants of the countries Northward of them, having great beards and small faces. They lived under ground in winter, and during the summer months in cabins elevated above the ground on posts to which they ascended by ladders. They kept animal food buried under leaves and earth, till it was quite putrid: they cooked it with water in earthen or wooden vessels, by putting in red hot stones. Their cookery,' Alasow says, 'smelt so strong that a Russian could not support the odour.'

The Russian Government in Europe

had hitherto taken little interest in the affairs of the remote eastern provinces; but after the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Czar, Peter the Great, found leisure to bestow attention on this part of his dominions, and sent directions to the Governor of Jakutyk,, to prosecute the discovery of the lands in the Icy Sea; and to collect information concerning the country of Kamtschatka, and the disco

veries which had been made in times past. In consequence of these orders, many individuals who had made voyages were examined, and their depositions taken down in writing; by which much curious matter has been preserved. Most of the examinations thus taken were lodged in the Chancery of Jakutyk, and some years afterwards were submitted to the inspection of Professor Muller. The earliest of the depositions noticed in Muller's History,

is one which was made by a Kossak named Nikiphor Malgin, and relates to lands in the Icy Sea. The reports concerning those lands had fallen into disrepute, in cousequence of some vessels having been driven to a considerable distance from the coast of the Continent in navigating between the Lena and the Kolyma, without any person in them seeing land to the North. Nikiphor Malgin, however, affirmed, that some time between 1667 and 1675, in sailing from the River Lena to the River Kolyma, he had seen an island to the North. Also, that after he arrived at the Kolyma, a merchant there, named Jacob Wiaetka, related to him and to others, that formerly he had sailed from the Lena in company with nine vessels for the Kolyma, three of which vessels were driven to this island, and some of the men belonging to them had landed, who saw there marks of the hoofs of unknown animals, but no human inhabitant; and that these three vessels afterwards arrived safe in the Kolyma. A person named Michailo Nafetkin deposed, that in or about 1702, being out at sea between the entrances of the River Kolyma and Indigirka, he had seen land to the North, and that Danils Monasterskoi, a pilot who was on board the same vessel with him said, that this land joined to land opposite to Kamschatka. Several other reports concerning lands in the Icy Sea, which it would be useless to mention here, are found in the information collected by these enquiries and examinations."

It may be expected that a Work like the present will be more particularly adapted to naval readers; and that the naval language, some part of it more particularly being derived from the Captain's own Journal when at sea, will be, as being perfectly natural, more particularly agreeable to them. As to its general character, though the Author does not affect a flowery or splendid composition (nor would such have been adapted to his subject) the style is uniformly neat, correct, and agreeable. What relates sian Empire, to the beginning of the to the general extension of the Rusintercourse of the Russians with the

Chinese, and to Captain Cook's Voyages, there is throughout sufficient novelty and variety to render the Work both amusing and instructive to general Readers.