his acquiefcence. The ceremony of his daughter's marriage with a Gerinan officer took place during our refidence with him in the Crimea, and was celebrated according to the rites of the Greek church; so that, as he was abfolved from almost every tie which ought to have confined him to the country, there was some reason to hope he would have liftened to our propofals; by acceding to which his life might be prolonged, and his publications completed. Our entreaties however were to no effect; and perhaps, before this meets the public eye, our friend and benefactor will be no more." P. 457.

Neither can we deny ourselves the pleasure of recommending the whole of this chapter as deferving the most attentive perufal, as difplaying the best talents and beft feelings of the author, and as honourable to his fame as a fcholar, a naturalift, as well as an elegant writer. The account of the Jewish Cemetery, in particular, juftifies the above affertion in each specification.

We now approach the termination, we cannot fay of our labours, for time and attention were never more agreeably exercifed, but of this firft part of Dr. Clarke's Travels; and the twentieth chapter conducts us from the capital of the Crimea to the Heracleotic Cherfonefus. This portion is enlivened by various remarks on fubjects of natural hiflory, and rendered impreffive by much fcholaftic investigation. The more peculiarly interefting objects which prefent themfelves, are the ruins and caverns of Inkerman, the Cippus of Theagenes, the illuftrations of ancient geography, and the defcription of the Vale of Balachava.

We are inclined to find fault with the caricature which is prefixed to the narrative of the journey from the Heracleotic Cherfonefus along the fouth coaft of the Crimea, as in every respect unworthy of the accomplished and, as we well know, amiable traveller. We moreover learn from unequivocal teftimony, that fome of the fineft men in the world are to be found among the Ruffian infantry. We are difpofed to forget this ebullition of ill humour, as foon as we proceed along the valley of Baidan, and become acquainted with the domeftic manners and habits of the Tartars. We paufe, however, with no common fatisfaction, when we are conducted to the celebrated CRIUMETOPON, mentioned by all the ancient geographers. The different villages along this interesting coaft are defcribed in the author's ufual lively manner. In this part of the work alfo, the reader is both entertained and inftructed by a very long and copious extract from the manufcript journal of Mr.

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Heber, and fome curious anecdotes of Potemkin, Suvarof, and other eminent perfonages are interspersed.

The 22d chapter details the particulars of a fecond excurfion to the minor peninfula of the Heracleota, in which the travellers were accompanied by Profeffor Pallas. The moft confpicuous features of this chapter are the Fortress of Mankoop, the Cape of the Winds, the Fuller's-Earth Pits, fomne pertinent obfervations on the climate, the Tartar Nobles, &c.

The remainder of the volume conducts us from the Crimea to the Ifthmus of Perecop to Nicolaef, from the latter place to Odeffa, and thence to the harbour of Ineada in the Black Sea, and finally to Conftantinople.

In the first part of this portion the reader is amufed with fome interefting defcriptions and curious anecdotes, all ilJuftrative of Dr. Clarke's object, to exhibit a comprehenfive impreffion of the people whom he faw and the regions which he vifited. As fome novel particulars are communicated concerning the benevolent Howard, we select them for our last extract.

"The particulars of Mr. Howard's death were communicated to me by his two friends, Admiral Mordvinof, then Chief Admiral of the Black Sea fleet, and Admiral Prieftman, an English officer in the Ruffian fervice; both of whom were eye-witneffes of his last moments. He had been entreated to visit a lady about twenty-four miles from Cherfon, who was dangerously ill. Mr. Howard objected, alledging that he acted only as phyfician to the poor; but hearing of her imminent danger, he afterwards yielded to the perfuafion of Admiral Mordvinof, and went to fee her. After having prefcribed that which he deemed proper to be adminiftered, he returned; leaving directions with her fa mily, to fend for him again if she got better; but adding, that if, as he much feared, the fhould prove worfe, it would be to no purpofe. Some time after his return to Cherfon, a letter arrived, ftating that the lady was better, and begging that he would come without lofs of time. When he examined the date, he perceived that the letter, by fome unaccountable delay, had been eight days in getting to his hands. Upon this, he refolved to go with all poffible expedition. The weather was extremely tempeftuous and very cold, it being late in the year, and the rain fell in torrents. In his impatience to fet out, a conveyance not being immediately ready, he mounted an old dray horfe, used in Admiral Mordvinof's family to carry water, and thus proceeded.

"Thirty-five verfts.

to vifit his patient. Upon his arrival, he found the lady dying; this, added to the fatigue of the journey, affected him fo much, that it brought on a fever. His clothes, at the fame time, had been wet through; but he attributed his fever entirely to another taufe. Having adminiftered fomething to his patient to excite perfpiration; as foon as the fymptoms of it appeared, he put his hand beneath the bed-clothes to feel her pulfe, that the might not be chilled by removing them, and believed that her fever was thus communicated to him. After this painful journey, Mr. Howard returned to Cherfon, and the lady died.

It had been almoft his daily cuftom, at a certain hour, to vifit Admiral Prieftman; when, with his ufual attention to regularity, he would place his watch on the table, and pafs exactly an hour with him in converfation. The Admiral, finding that he failed in his ufual vifits, went to fee him, and found him weak and ill, fitting before a stove in his bed-room. Having enquired after his health, Mr. Howard replied, that his end was approaching very faft; that he had several things to fay to his friend, and thanked him for having called. The Admiral, finding him in fuch a melancholy mood, endeavoured to turn the converfation, imagining the whole might be merely the refult of low spirits; but Mr. Howard foon affured him it was otherwife; and added,

Prieftman, you ftyle this a very dull converfation, and endea vour to divert my mind from dwelling upon death; but I entertain very different fentiments. Death has no terrors or me: it is an event I always look to with chearfulness, if not with pleafure; and be affured, the fubject of it is to me more grateful than any other. I am well aware I have but a fhort time to live; my mode of life has rendered it impoffible that I should get rid of this fever. If I had lived as you do, eating heartily of animal food, and drinking wine, I might, perhaps, by diminishing my diet, be able to fubdue it. But how can fuch a man as I am lower his diet, who has been accustomed for years to exist on vegetables and water, a little bread and a little tea? I have no method of lowering my nourishment, and therefore I muft die. It is fuch jolly fellows as you, Prieftman, who get over these fevers.' Then, turning the fubject, he fpoke of his funeral; and cheerfully gave directions concerning the manner in which he would be buried. There is a fpot, faid he, near the village of Dauphigny, which would fuit me nicely: you know it well, for I have often faid I fhould like to be buried there; and let me beg of you, as you value your oid friend, not to fuffer any pomp to be used at my funeral; nor any monument, or monu mental infcription whatfoever, to mark where I am laid; but lay me quietly in the earth, place a fun-dial over my grave, and let me be forgotten.' Having giving thefe directions, he was very earneft in foliciting that Admiral Prieftman would lofe no time in fecuring the object of his wifhes; but go immediately, and fettle

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with the owner of the land for the place of his interment, and prepare every thing for his burial.

"The Admiral left him upon his melancholy errand, fearing at the fame time, as he himself informed me, that the people would believe him crazy, to folicit a burying-ground for a man who was then living, and whom no perfon yet knew to be indifpofed. However, he accomplished Mr. Howard's wishes, and returned to him with the intelligence: at this his countenance brightened, a gleam of evident fatisfaction came over his face, and he prepared to go to bed. Soon after, he made his will; leaving as his executor a trufty follower, who had lived with him more in the capacity of a friend than of a fervant, and whom he charged with the commiffion of bearing his will to England. It was not until after he had finished his will, that any fymptoms of delirium appeared., Admiral Prieftman, who had left him for a fhort time, returned and found him fitting up in his bed, adding what he believed to be a codicil to his will; but this confifted of feveral unconnected words, the chief part of which were illegible, and all without any meaning. This ftrange compofition he defired Admiral Prieftman to witness and fign; and, in order to pleafe him, the Admiral confented; but wrote his name, as he bluntly faid, in Ruffian characters, left any of his friends in England, reading his fignature to fuch a codicil, fhould think he was alfo delirious. After Mr. Howard had made what he conceived to be an addition to his will, he became more com. pofed. A letter was brought to him from England, containing intelligence of the improved ftate of his fon's health; ftating the manner in which he paffed his time in the country, and giving great reafon to hope that he would recover from the diforder with which he was afflicted *. His fervant read this letter aloud; and, when he had concluded, Mr. Howard turned his head towards him, faying, Is not this comfort for a dying father? He expreffed great repugnance against being buried according to the rites of the Greek Church; and begging Admiral Prieftman to prevent any interference with his interment on the part of the Ruffian priefts, made him alfo promife, that he would read the fervice of the Church of England over his grave, and bury him in all refpects according to the forms of his country. Soon after this laft request, he ceafed to fpeak. Admiral Mordvinof came in, and found him dying very faft. They had in vain befought him to allow a phyfician to be fent for; but Admiral Mordvinof renewing this folicitation with great earnestnefs, Mr. Howard affented by nodding his head. The phyfician came, but was too late to be of any fervice. A rattling in the throat had commenced; and the phyfician administered what is called the musk

!! Mr. Howard's fon laboured under an attack of infanity."

draught

draught, a medicine ufed only in Ruffia in the laft extremity. It was given to the patient by Admiral Mordvinof, who prevailed on him to fwallow a little; but he endeavoured to avoid the reft, and gave evident figns of difapprobation. He was then entirely given over; and shortly after breathed his laft.". P. 604.

We now take our leave of Dr. Clarke, with many acknowledgments for the great gratification we have received, and the important information we have derived from the perufal of his curious volume. In a work of such extent, it is impoffible that various opportunities fhould not have prefented themselves of exerciting our critical fagacity in the detection and exposure of errors, both of omiflion and commiflion. But we adhere to the character of forbearance, which diftinguifhed our firft introduction to the public, and if we difcern, as in the prefent inftance, a great fuperiority. of excellence, very extenfive information, unwearied diligence, and highly refpectable abilities, we do not quarrel with an author for not poffeffing what no human genius or industry can obtain. We fee with regret, that our example is not followed by our younger competitors, who affume a tone of arrogant and peremptory decifion, and as far as they can direct the whirlwind of public cenfure, would blow. from the ftage of literature all who may not be accomplished according to their conception of learning and of talents. Peace to all fuch. We think Dr. Clarke has been occafionally indifcreet, and that prejudice may have fometimes hurried him too far. As to the Ruffian character, there must be fome difficulty in obtaining the real truth. From fuch of our countrymen as were domiciliated in Ruffia, what was learned was probably accurate, namely, from Admiral Prieftman, Admiral Wilfon, and others; and it is alfo a well known fac, that many Ruffian noblemen of the highest rank, who have vifited England, have been remarkable for expatiating on the relative barbarity of their countrymen. After all, perhaps, nothing more harth has been introduced on the fubject by Dr. Clarke than appears in the published writings of the Prince de Ligne, Count Segur, and in the. manufcript letters of Lord Roy fton.

We truft ere long to have an occupation fimilar to the prefent impofed upon us by Dr. Clarke, of whom we thus take a friendly farewell, only fubjoining, in compliancę with our duty, that we hardly think the engravings equal to the character of the volume; indeed, many are of very in different execution..