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.
