THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

OCT. 1805...... JAN. 1806.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX BAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR,

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. VII.

Edinburgh:

PRINTED BY D. WILLISON, CRAIG'S CLOSE,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH,
AND LONGMAN HURST REES AND ORME,

LONDON.

1806.

CONTENTS OF No. XIII.

ART. I. Madoc, a Poem: in Two Parts. By Robert Southey p. 1

II. A Tour in America in 1798, 1799, and 1800: Ex-.

hibiting Sketches of Society and Manners, and a

particular Account of the American Syftem of

Agriculture, with its recent Improvements. By

Richard Parkinfon

III. Medical Reports on the Effects of Water, Cold and

Warm, as a Remedy in Fever and other Difeafes,

whether applied to the Surface of the Body, or used

internally. By James Currie, M. D. &c.

IV. An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Propa-

gation of Heat. By John Leflie

V. Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young

Princess

VI. Flore du Nord de la France: ou Description des

Plantes Indigènes, et de celles cultivées dans les

Départemens de la Lys, de l'Efcaut, de la Dyle,

et des Deux-Nèthes, y compris les Plantes qui

naiffent dans les Pays Limitrophes de ces Départe-

mens, &c. Par F. Roucel, Officier de Santé pen-

fionné de la Ville d'Aloft, &c.

29

42

63

100

VII. A Short Statement of Facts, relative to the late Elec-

tion of a Mathematical Profeffor in the University

of Edinburgh, &c. By Profeffor Dugald Stewart 113

VIII. L'Eneide: Traduite par Jacques de Lille. And

Virgile à Jacques de Lille: ou Dialogue des Morts,

fur la Traduction des Six Premiers Livres de

l'Eneide. Par M. Quenneville

134

148

IX. A Short Account of the Caufe of the Disease in

Corn, called by Farmers the Blight, the Mildew,

and the Ruft. By Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart.

X. Memoirs of C. M. Talleyrand de Perigord, &c. &c.

By the Author of the Revolutionary Plutarch

XI. Travels to the Weftward of the Allegany Mountains,

in the States of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Teneffee.

By F. A. Michaux, M. D. &c.

XII. Academical Queftions. By the Right Honourable

W. Drummond, Author of a Tranflation of Per-

fius

151

155

163

XIII. Obfervations on the Prefent State of the Highlands

of Scotland; with a View of the Caufes and pro-

bable Confequences of Emigration. By the Earl

of Selkirk

185

ART.