Par Le
Grand D'Aussy. Paris, 1795. 3 vols. 8vo.
457. Tableau de la ci-devant Provence D'Auvergne. Par Rabine Beauregard, et
P.M. Gault. Paris, 1802. 8vo. - No district in France presents such a
variety of interesting objects as Auvergne; its inhabitants, in their
language, dress, manners, and mode of life; its agriculture, its natural
history, and its antiquities of the classical and middle ages. Le Grand
D'Aussy treats well of all but the last, and this is supplied by the other
work; its agriculture is more fully considered in the following:
458. Voyage Agronomique en Auvergne. Paris, 8vo. 1803.
459. Description du Departement de l'Oise. Par Cambri. Paris, 1803. 2 vols.
8vo. - Agriculture, roads, canals, manufactures, commerce, antiquities, are
treated of in this work in such a satisfactory manner, that the author of
the Bibiotheque expresses a wish that all the departments were described as
well as this, and the department of Finisterre by the same author, and
Auvergne by Le Grand D'Aussy.
460. Voyage Agronomique dans la Senatorerie de Dijon. Par N. Francais de
Neufchateau. Paris, 1806. 8vo.
461. Voyage dans le Jura. Par Lequinio. Paris, 1801. 8vo. - Much information
in agriculture, natural history, &c. is given by this author, in an
unpleasant style, and with little regard to method.
462. Voyage de Paris a Strasbourg. Paris, 1802. 8vo. - Relates to the
agriculture and statistics of the departments through which the author
travelled, and particularly the Lower Rhine.
463. Voyage dans la ci-devant Belgique, et sur la Rive Gauche du Rhin. Par
Briton, et Brun pere et fils. Paris, 1802. 2 vols. 8vo. - Commerce,
manufactures, arts, manners, and mineralogy, enter into these volumes.
Sometimes, however, rather in a desultory and superficial style.
464. Voyage dans les Departements nouvellement reunis, et dans le
Departements du Bas Rhin, du Nord, du Pas de Calais, et de la Somme. 1802.
Par A.G. Camus. Paris, 2 vols. 8vo. - Camus was sent by the French
government to examine the archives and titles of the new departments: the
Institute at the same time deputed him to examine into the state of
science, literature, and manufactures: on the latter topics, and on the
state of the hospitals, the work is full of details. The information he
collected respecting the archives, he does not give.
465. Briefe eines Sudlanders, von Fischer. Leipsic, 1805. 8vo. - Besides
descriptions of the principal cities in France, this work contains an
account of the fisheries of the Mediterranean; the arsenal of Toulon; the
department of Vaucluse; the Provencal language, &c. The same author has
published Travels in the Pyrennees, drawn up from the works of most
scientific travellers among these mountains.
466. Reise durch eine theil des Westlichen Franckreichs. Leipsic, 1803.
8vo. - This is also by the same author, and contains an excellent
statistical description of Britanny, a full account of Brest and its
maritime establishments, and of the famous lead mines of Poulavoine, and of
Huelgeat. The first part of this word, _huel_, is exactly the prefix
to the names of many of the mines in Cornwall.
467. Reise door Frankryk. Door Van der Willigen. Haarlem, 8vo.
468. Reisen durch die Sudlichen, Westlichen und Nordlichen, Provinzen. Von
Frankreich. 1807-9. und 1815. Frank. 2 vols. 8vo. 1816. - French literature,
the Spanish revolution in 1808, and the Basque language, are chiefly
treated of.
469. Remarques faites dans un Voyage de Paris jusqu'a Munich. Par Depping.
Paris, 1814. 8vo. - A most judicious and instructive book, noticing all that
is really interesting in this route, and nothing else, and thus conveying
much information in a small compass.
THE NETHERLANDS.
This portion of Europe presents to the traveller fewer varieties for his
research and observation than any other part of Europe: in almost every
other part the mineralogist and geologist find rich materials for the
increase of their knowledge or the formation of their theories; and the
admirer of the beautiful, the picturesque, or the sublime, is gratified.
The Netherlands are barren to both these travellers; yet in some
respects it is a highly interesting country: and the interest it
excites, chiefly arises from circumstances peculiar to it. The northern
division discovers a district won from the sea by most laborious,
persevering, and unremitted industry, and kept from it by the same
means. The middle division recalls those ages, when it formed the link
between the feeble commerce of the south of Europe, and of Asia and of
the Baltic districts. Antwerp, Ghent, and Bruges then were populous and
rich above most cities in Europe. The whole of the Netherlands,
especially Flanders, may be regarded as the birth-place of modern
agriculture, which spread from it to England, where alone it flourishes
in a vigorous and advanced state, but still in some points not to be
compared to that of the country from which it came. Such, with the
admirable paintings of the Dutch School, are the chief objects that
attract the traveller to the Netherlands, independently of the desire to
study human nature, which here also will find ample materials.
470. Descrizione di Ludovico Guicciardini di tutti Paesi Bassi. Antwerp,
1501. fol. - This work, which was translated into Latin, French, and Dutch,
was written by the nephew of the historian; it is the result of his own
travels in the Netherlands, and contains a full description of them,
particularly of their principal towns, and their commerce.
471. Observations on the United Provinces. By Sir W. Temple. 8vo. &
12mo. - Sir W. Temple was embassador at the Hague in 1668: his little work
contains much information on the history, government, manners, religion,
commerce, &c. of the United Provinces.
472. Travels in Flanders and Holland in 1781. By Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Confined to pictures.
473. Tour through the Batavian Republic during the last part of the year
1800. By R. Fell. 1801. 8vo. - This work gives an interesting picture of
Holland and the Dutch at this period, besides historical and political
details and observations on its connexion with France.
