451. Essai sur les Volcans eteints du Vivarais. Par Faujas de Saint Fond.
Paris, 1778. fol.
452. Histoire Naturelle du Dauphine. Par le Meme. Grenoble, 1781.
4to. - These works, the result of travels in the district to which they
allude, are valuable to the mineralogist and geologist.
453. Voyage en Provence. Par M. l'Abbe Papou. Paris, 1787. 2 vols.
12mo. - The objects of these travels are historical, literary, and
picturesque.
454. Observations faites dans les Pyrenees. Par Ramond. Paris, 1789. 8vo.
455. Voyage au Mont Perdu, et dans les Partes adjacentes des Hautes
Pyrennees. Par Raymond. Paris, 1801. 8vo. - Although these works principally
relate to the formation, natural history, and meteorology of the Pyrennees,
yet the dryness of scientific observation and research is most agreeably
relieved by a lively picture of manners, as well as by the interesting
personal adventures of the author in his attempts to reach the summit of
the mountains. There is an English translation of the former of these
works.
456. Voyage en 1787-88, dans la ci-devant Haute et Basse Auvergne. 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:
