- Botany, mineralogy, and what the Germans call economy, and
technology, are principally attended to in this work.
344. Wanderrungen und Spazierfahrten in die gegenden um Wien. Vienna,
1802-4. 5 vols. 8vo. - The title of this work would not lead the reader to
expect what he will find; valuable notices on mineralogy, agriculture,
arts, and manufactures, in the midst of light and lively sketches of
manners, places of amusement, &c.
345. Reise durch Sacksen. Von N.G. Leske. Leips. 1785. 4to. - Natural
history and economy.
346. Beobachtungen uber Natur und Menschen. Von F.E. Lieberoth. Frankfort,
1791. 8vo.
347. Economische und Statische reisen durch Chur-Sacksen, &c. Von H. Engel.
Leips. 1803. 8vo.
348. Bemerkungen einer Reisenden durch die Prussischen Staaten. Von J.H.
Ulrich. Altenb. 1781. 8vo.
349. Briefe uber Schlesien Krakau, und die Glatz. 1791. Von J.L. Zoellner.
Berlin, 1793. 2 vols. 8vo.
350. Reise durch einer Theil Preussen, Hambro, 1801. 2 vols. 8vo. - This
work was drawn up by two travellers: one of whom supplied the statistical
remarks, and the other, who traversed Prussia on foot, the remarks on
entomology, amber, the sturgeon fishery, and other branches of natural
history and economics.
351. Wanderrungen durch Rugen. Von Carl. Nernst. Dusseld. 1801. 8vo. - This
island affords interesting notices on manners, ancient superstitions,
particularly the worship of Ertha, besides statistical and geographical
remarks.
352. Rhein-Reise. Von A.J. Von Wakerbert. Halberstadt, 1794. 8vo.
353. Ansichten des Rheins. Von Jno. Vogt. Bremen, 1805. 8vo. - This is a
strange mixture of the picturesque, the romantic, and the instructive: the
instructive parts contain historical and topographical notices of the
cities on the Rhine, and curious details on its most famous wines.
354. Historische Jaarbocken, von oud nieven Friesland door Foeke Siverd.
Leowarden, 1769. 8vo. - We insert the title of this work, though not
strictly within our plan, because it gives an accurate account of a part of
Germany, the dialect of which more resembles old English than any other
German dialect; and in which there still lurk many very curious traditions,
customs, and superstitions, which throw much light on our Saxon ancestors.
SWITZERLAND.
Perhaps no country in the world, certainly no district within such a
small circuit, presents so many interesting objects to a traveller as
Switzerland. Be he natural historian, and geologist, drawn by habit,
feeling, and taste, to the contemplation of all that is grand, romantic,
and picturesque in natural scenery, or attached to the study of man in
that state, in which civilization and knowledge have brought with them
the least intermixture of artifice, luxury, and dissoluteness - in
Switzerland, he will find an ample and rich feast. It does not often
happen that one and the same country attracts to it the abstract and
cold man of science, the ardent imagination of the poet, and the strong,
enthusiastic, and sanguine sympathies of the philanthropist.
355. Descriptio Helvetiae, a Marso, 1555-9. 4to. - Marsus was ambassador from
the Emperor and King of Spain, Charles V., to the Swiss, and gives a
curious picture of their manners at this period.
356. Helvetia Profana et Sacra. 1642. 4to. - This work by Scotti, which is
written in English, depicts the manners of the Swiss a century after
Marsus.
357. Travels through the Rhaetian Alps. By Beaumont, 1782, fol. - Travels
through the Pennine Alps, by the same, 1788. small folio, both translated
from the French.
358. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons, by the Rev.
W. Coxe, 1791. 3 vols. 8vo. - These travels were performed in 1776, and
again in 1785 and 1787, and bear and deserve the same character as the
author's travels in Russia, &c., of which we have already spoken. Mr. Coxe
gives a list of books on Switzerland at the end of his 3d volume, which may
be consulted with advantage. There is a similar list at the end of his
travels in Russia, &c.
359. A Walk through Switzerland, in Sept. 1816. 12mo. - The scenery and
manners sketched with much feeling, taste, and judgment, in an animated
style.
360. Journal of a Tour and Residence in Switzerland. By L. Simond. 1822.
2 vols. 8vo. - A description of Switzerland and the Swiss, which brings them
in a clearer and stronger point of view, to the presence and comprehension
of the reader than most travels in this country: though the range of
observation and remark is not so extensive in this work, as in the author's
work on Great Britain; in every other respect it is equal to it. The second
volume is entirely historical.
The following French works particularly and accurately describe the
natural history and the meteorology of the Swiss mountains and glaciers;
the names of at least two of their authors must be familiar to our
readers, as men of distinguished science.
361. Histoire Naturelle des Glaciers de Suisse. Paris, 1770. 4to.
Translated from the German of Gruner.
362. Nouvelle Description des Glaciers. Par M. Bourrit. Geneva, 1785.
3 vols. 8vo. - This work of Bourrit is chiefly confined to the Valais and
Savoy, and its most important contents are given in the following work by
the same author.
363. Nouvelle Description des Glaciers de la Savoie, particulierement de la
Vallee de Chamouny et du Mont Blanc. 1785, 8vo. - This work contains an
account of the author's successful attempt to ascend the summit of Mont
Blanc. There are several other works of Bourrit on the Glaciers and
Mountains of Savoy: the latest and most complete is the following:
364. Descriptions des Cols ou Passages des Alpes. Geneva, 1803. 2 vols.
8vo.
365. Voyage dans les Alpes, precede d'un Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des
Environs de Geneva. Par Saussure. Geneva, 1787 - 1796. 8 vols. 8vo.
366. Relation abregee d'un Voyage a la Cime du Mont Blanc, en Aout, 1787.
Par Saussure, Geneva. 8vo.
367. Voyage Mineralogique en Suisse. Lausanne, 1783-4. 8vo.
368. Voyage Mineralogique dans le Gouvernement de l'Argh, et ne partie du
Valais.
