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This is, perhaps, the most useful edition of the Mao It is also nian bard, that has yet made its appearance. critical in an eminent degree, and contains a judicious and well-written account of the digamma, together with a dissertation upon the Homeric metre, principally selected from the writings of Professor Dunbar and Mr. R. P. Knight. The notes are partly original, and partly taken from Heyne, Clarke, and Knight. The author has judiciously enlivened the heavy, critical matter of his work by quotations from Pope's admirable translation, and adorned it with a few parallel passages from the Roman poets, and from our illustrious countryman Milton.--New Magazine, Oct. 1819. Printed by A. J. Valpy; and sold by G. and W. B. Whittaker; Longman, and Co.; Baldwin and Co.; NAL, conducted by Dr. Brewster and Professor Lackington and Co.; F. C. and J, Rivington, London; Jameson. Contents. - Astronomy. Captain Katter on the Pendulum. Mr. Rumker on the Solar Eclipse of 1820. Dr. Brinkley on the Obliquity of the Ecliptic. Dr. Olbers on the Transparency of the Comet of 1819. Optics. Dr. Brewster on the Absorption of Polarised Light. Ditto on the Optical Properties of Amber. Mr. J. Watt on his Perspective Machine. Magnetism. Colonel Beaufoy on the Variation of the Needle. Variation of the Needle at Lyons. Electricity. Humboldt on Electrical Eels. Chemistry. Dr. Macculloch on the Chemical Properties of Peat. Dr. Marcet on Sea Water. Dr. Wollaston on Potash in Sea Water. Braconnot on Sugar from Linen. composition of Starch. Mr. Bald on Steam. Saussure on the De Meteorology. Rev. Mr. Gordon on a Meteor. Journal for 1819. Singular State of the Barometer and Thermometer in Jan. 1820. Storm at Montreal, Dr. Brewster on the mean Temperature of the Earth. Mineralogy. Professor Jameson on Rocks formed by Hot Springs, &c. Dr. Hibbert on the Rocks of Shetland. Dr. Boué on the Volcanic Rocks of France and Scotland. Dr. Gilby on the Trap Formation, in Brecknockshire. 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REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1820. Travels in various Countries of the East: being a Continuation of Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey,&c. Edited by the Rev. Robert Walpole, M. A. Lond. 1820. Second volume. 4to. pp. 603. PRICE 8d. ed privately till he went to Oxford at the age turned again towards Cairo, but was diverted of seventeen, and entered of Oriel College. at Genne, on his way, into a journey thence Here he applied himself to classical reading, towards the Red Sea and Cossir, to see the made some progress in the mathematics, and immense stone quarries described by Bruce. took a wide range in miscellaneous litera- To avoid the perils of this road, he assumed ture. On quitting the university he entered the oriental dress and character; and his enat the Temple, hired chambers, and attended terprize was amply rewarded. He passed the courts of law. But he soon relinquish through immense excavations, appearing to ed this pursuit, and contenting himself with have been formed in the earliest ages; from the moderate fortune left by his father, in which many of the great Egyptian mountSeveral of the latter. Numbers of the dulged in that spirit of adventure which ments were obtained, and which furnished Literary Gazette for the year 1817, and seems to have been implanted in his nature. statues, columns, an obelisks, without of those of the beginning of 1818, Previous to 1791 he devoted himself princi-number, to the Roman Empire, at its utmost declare how highly we appreciated the pally to the cultivation of general literature, elevation of luxury and power. He viewed first volume of this excellent work. modern languages, and something of the with astonishment these exhaustless quarries Since that period the best critics of fine arts, together with botany, chemistry, of granite, of porphyry, and of verd antique, France, Germany, and Italy, have re-thusiasm into the revolutionary mania which banditti and wandering tribes) which supand niiteralogy; but entering with great en- (now abandoned, and become the abode of echoed our sentiments: there has been then sprung up in France, he wasted much plied the most costly materials of ancient but one opinion of its merits, and the of his time and vigour upon politics, and re-art, and to which modern Rome owes some only objection that we have seen al- published several tracts enforcing his views of her principal existing decorations. In the leged has been to the arrangement, not of the subject at his own expence, for the Spring, Mr. B. traversed the rest of Egypt; to the value of its contents. To this advancement of his favourite schemes. For-and in May (1793), set out with the Great Mr. Walpole has, in the preface to his tunately the desire to travel superseded this Soudan caravan with the purpose of penepassion; and stimulated by the perusal of trating into Africa by Dar-Für, on the west new volume, given a very satisfactory Bruce's Abyssinia, he resolved to lose no of Abyssinia, and so on through the latter, answer; and, as we think, a still more further time in carrying his exploratory country to the source of the grand westera gratifying one by rendering the whole plans into effect. branch of the Nile, the Bahr-el-abiad, or publication equally interesting with its Having determined on proceeding into the White river. During this journey, the therprecursor. interior of Africa by the Egyptian route, Mr. mometer was occasionally at 116 in the We have therefore nothing to say in Browne left England in 1791, and in the Ja-shade; but nevertheless, after incredible introducing it to our readers; ...for ituary following arrived at Alexan Iria. Af hardships, our persevering countryman reachwould be tedious, however just, to re- westward into the Desert, to discover the ter a two months residence he took a journeyed Dar-Fûr about the end of July. "It appeared,immediately on Mir.Browne's peat the phrases of panegyric. We shall unknown site of the temple of Jupiter Am- arrival, that he had been entirely misinformmerely notice, that there are thirty-four mon. He followed a circuitous route along the ed as to the character of the government, papers, (the chief of which, we mean, sea coast to the Oasis of Siwah, where bis which he had understood to be mild and toleshall furnish separate reviews in our attention was attracted by the remains of a rant. From his first entrance into the counweekly sheet,) throwing unusual light remarkable and very ancient edifice of Egyp- try, owing in part to the treachery and inupon oriental and ancient literature, tian architecture, respecting which tradition trigues of the servant he had brought from was entirely silent. Though inimical to his Cairo, but principally to the natural bigotry affording much information whereby to pursuit, he candidly expressed his opinion and violence of the reigning sovereign, he was understand the most difficult passages of that this was not the Temple of Jupiter; treated with the utmost harshness and seveScripture, illustrating the geography of and penetrating, amid considerable dangers, rity; and this circumstance, together with Asia and Africa, developing Grecce in three days farther into the Desert, vainly the fatigues of his late journey, and the efits antiquities and modern state, ..in searching for that object, he returned in fects of the rainy season, (so formidable to short, forming a collection of rare in- April to Alexandria. He next visited Ro-European constitutions,) produced, very telligence and extraordinary value, setta, Damietta, and Cairo, in which city speedily, a dangerous and almost fatal illness, he resided at different periods eleven months, from which he recovered very slowly, and which either for instruction or enter- diligently studying the Arabie language, and with great difficulty. tainment, must be highly acceptable to making himself intimately acquainted with the scholar and man of taste. oriental customs and manners. On the 10th [Our ensuing columns are derived from the papers of September he left Cairo, and sailed up the numbered IX. X. XI. and XII., and relate to Nile as far as Thebes. He employed some the travels and biography of Mr. Browne, of days in surveying these venerable ruins, prowhom the British Public knows less than it bably the most ancient in the world, which ought.] extend for three leagues on each side of the William George Browne was the son of a river, and shew the circumference of the city respectable wine merchant in London, the to have been about 27 miles. Higher up descendant of an ancient family of that name the river, he examined Asstan (Syene) the in Cumberland, and was born on Great ancient boundary of the Roman Empire, and Tower Hill, July 25, 1768. His constitu- visited the celebrated cataracts, or rather ration was originally feeble, and his health pids, of the Nile. The Mamluk war preduring infancy precarious. He was educat-vented his penetrating into Núbia, and he YOL. IV. "His first object, after the partial restoration of his health, was to obtain permission to quit the country; for which purpose he attempted a negociation with a principal minister of the sultan, which was wholly without effect. After this failure, and after having been plundered in various ways of the greater part of his effects, he resigned himSelf to his fate; and establishing his residence, in a clay-built house or hovel at Cobbé, the capital town of Dar For, he cultivated an acquaintance with the principal inhabitants, and acquired such a knowledge of the Arabic dialect used in that country as to crable him was happily chosen near the grave of Thevenot, the celebrated French traveller, who died in this part of Persia about a century and half before." to partake of their society and conversa-ed to some of those adventurous schemes tion." which he had formed in early life; and he seems once to have had thoughts of applying, at this period, to the Directors of the East India Company, for permission to travel into "So perished a very enterprizing and altoThibet. But after due consideration of this gether extraordinary man, at a period and other projects, he fixed at length upon when inuch was to be expected from his lathe Tartar city of Samarcand and the cen-bours, and when we may say the eyes of the tral region of Asia around it, as the objects three quarters of the ancient world were towards which his attention should now be fixed upon his adventurous career. directed. Nearly three years elapsed, however, before the caprice of this African tyrant suffered him to depart; and it was not till the Spring of 1796, that he revisited the banks of the Nile, spent with suffering, and not having tasted animal food for four months. One of his amusements while in Dar-Fûr deserves to be mentioned. 约 He purchased two lions, whom he tamed and rendered familiar. One of them, being bought at four months old, acquired most of the habits of a dog. He took great pleasure in feeding them, and observing their actions and manners. Many moments of languor were soothed by the company of these animals." "In his person he was thin, and rather "Having made the necessary arrangements above the middle size, of a dark complexion, in this country, for a long absence, he took and a grave and pensive cast of countenance. his departure from England in the summer His manners towards strangers were reserved, of 1812, and proceeded, in the first place, to cold, and oriental; but he could occasionally Constantinople; from whence, at the sug-relax from this gravity, and his society and gestion of Mr. Tenant, he made a diligent, conversation had great charms for the few but fruitless, search for the meteoric stone, friends with whom he would thus unbend In 1797, he travelled in Syria and Pales- which is mentioned by the Parian Chronicle himself. tine, and visited Acre, Tripoli, Damascus, and the Natural History of Pliny to have fall- "His moral character was deserving of evethe ruins of Balbec, Aleppo, and, journey-en at Egos-potamos in the ancient Thrace.ry praise. He was friendly and sincere, dising thence through Asia Minor, Con- From Constantinople he went, about the tinguished for the steadiness of his attachstantinople. On the 16th of September, close of the year, to Smyrna and thence,ments, and capable of acts of great kindness, 1798, he arrived in London after an absence in the spring of 1813, proceeded in a north-Though far from beng affluent, he was libeof nearly 7 years, which it may be seen from easterly direction, through Asia Minor and ral and generous in no common degree. He our rapid sketch, were passed in an extra- Armenia, (the Persian road) to Erzerum was perfectly disinterested, and had high ordinary manner, whether we consider the and reached Tabriz, on the first of June. principles of honour; and (what is very imcountries visited, or the hardships endured by No traces of this journey have been found portant, with reference to his character as a the traveller. among his papers. traveller and geographical discoverer) was a man of exact and scrupulous veracity. Unfortunately for the public curiosity, Mr. Browne had lost some of his most valuable journals; but still enough remained to form that volume of Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, which he published in 1800; which, notwithstanding its novelty, and geographical value, has (owing to its abrupt and artificial style and other more serious objections) never become popular. No sooner was his publication completed, than the author resumed his rambling life. In the summer of 1800 he quitted England, and taking Berlin and Vienna on his way, arrived at Trieste, where he remained some time. Athens, Smyrna, and again Constantinople, were the objects of his research; and a very interesting tour from the Turkish capital across Asia Minor to Antioch followed. Subsequently, he visited Cyprus, Egypt, Salanika, Mount Athos, Albania, the Ionian Islands, and Venice, where he rested some time, in 1802-3. From Venice, in the latter year, he went to Sicily, explored the classical remains of that island, و" and examiname of the Lipari. Return-back Mr. Browne's remains, and to make a odes, highly expressive of that generous am "Towards the end of the summer of 1813, having completed the preparations for "He had no brilliancy or quickness of his journey, he at length took his departure parts; but he was a great lover of labour, and from Tabriz, accompanied by two servants, cultivated his favourite studies with intense for Teherân, the present capital of Persia; and unremitting assiduity. He was a man of intending to proceed from thence into Tar- erudition, and may be ranked among the tary. He passed on the second day through learned Orientalists of modern times. But a part of the Persian army which was en- that which principally distinguished him, and camped at the distance of 36 miles from Ta- in which he was certainly unrivalled, was a briz. What subsequently happened can only familiar and intimate acquaintance with the be known from the testimony of those who manners and customs of Eastern nations, and accompanied him. After some days, both the minute details of their domestic life, exthe servants returned with an account that, tending even to their prayers and ablutions. after advancing to a place near the river Kizil It was this knowledge, the result of long and Ozan, about 120 miles from Tabriz, the patient observation, which enabled him to party had been attacked by banditti; and that personate the Oriental character with an Mr. Browne had been dragged a short dis- exactness and propriety which has rarely, tance from the road, where he was plunder-perhaps, been equalled.' ed and murdered, but that they were suffered "The leading principle of his character was to escape. They brought back with them a a lofty ambition, a desire of signalizing himdouble barrelled gun and a few other effects, self by some memorable achievement. On known to have been in Mr. Browne's pos-opening his will, which was made a few days session. At the instance of Sir Gore Ouse- before he left England, a paper in his handley, soldiers were immediately dispatched writing was found enclosed, containing a the volcanic Archipelago to the spot described; with orders to bring remarkable passage from one of Pindar's strict search for the murderers. On their bition and contempt of danger and death, return, they reported to the government that which are the true inspiring principles of they had failed in both these objects; but great enterprizes. Probably his most intithat they had fully ascertained the fact of Mr. mate friends had not been fully aware, beBrowne's death, and had found some por- fore the appearance of this paper, of the tions of his clothes, which, having been real force of his character, and of those made at Constantinople, were very distin-powerful and deep feelings, which the habiguishable from those worn in Persia. They tual reserve and coldness of his manners efadded, that they had been unable to disco- fectually concealed from observation." ver any traces or remains of the body, which was believed to have been abandoned to beasts of prey. Notwithstanding this report, the search for his remains appears to have been afterwards continued; and some bones, said to be those of Mr. Browne, were brought to Tabriz; which, having been deposited in a cedar chest, were interred, with due respect, in the neighbourhood of the town. The spot known by ing reluctantly to London, he made some arrangements for publishing the fruits of these travels; but never carried the design into execution. It is from the MSS. so prepared that our ensuing extracts are made. In London, Mr. Browne lived retiredly, giving his time to study, and the society of a few select friends. His general demeanour was cold, unamiable, and repulsive. In 1805-6, though not much delighted with native scenery, Mr. Brovne made a tour of Ireland, and was much gratified with his excursion. "After several had been thus passed years by Mr. Browne, his ruling passion returned; his present course of life became insipid and irksome, and he began to meditate new expeditions. His imagination naturally recurr The passage is in the first of the Olympic "In the paths of dangerous fame Would his useless life consume |