A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 eBook

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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 eBook

Robert Kerr (writer)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 938 pages of information about A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels.

323.  Historical and Statistical Account of Wallachia and Moldavia.  By W. Wilkinson. 1820. 8vo.—­Mr. Wilkinson, from his situation as British Consul, has been enabled to collect much information on these portions of Europe, chiefly such as the title indicates, and also of a political nature.

324.  Voyages de Reisbeck en Allemagne.  Paris, 1793. 2 vols. 8vo.—­This work was originally published in German, under the title of Briefe eines reisenden Franzosen durch Deutschland:  there is also an English translation.  The travels took place in 1782:  and the character of a French traveller, in the German original, was assumed, to secure the author from the probable effects of his severe remarks on the government, manners, and customs of Germany.  To these subjects, and others connected with man, his agriculture, commerce, and other pursuits, Baron Reisbeck has chiefly confined his attention:  perhaps the truth and impartiality of his strictures would be more readily acknowledged, if they were not so strongly impregnated with a satirical feeling.

325.  Journal d’un Voyage en Allemagne, 1773.  Par M. Guibert.  Paris, 1802. 2 vols. 8vo.—­The celebrated author of the “Essai General sur la Tactique,” naturally directed his attention during his travels to military affairs, and to an examination and description of the sites of famous battles.  But this work by no means is confined to such topics; and the remarks with which it abounds on more interesting subjects, are so evidently the fruit of an acute and original mind, that they equally command our attention, and instruct us.

326.  Voyage en Hanovre, 1803-4.  Par M.A.B.  Mangourit.  Paris, 1805. 8vo.—­Politics, religion, agriculture, commerce, mineralogy, manners, and customs, are discussed in this volume; and in general with good sense and information.  Hamburgh, Hanover, its government, universities, and especially its mines, are particularly described.

327.  Voyage dans quelques Parties de la Basse-Saxe, pour la Recherche des Antiquites Slaves ou Wendes, 1794.  Par J. Potocky.  Hambro. 1795. 4to.

328.  Journal d’un Voyage dans les Cercles du Rhin.  Par Collini.  Paris, 1777. 8vo.—­Chiefly mineralogical.

329.  Voyage sur le Rhin, depuis Mayence jusqu’a Dusseldorf.  Newied, 1791. 8vo.—­This tour contains some curious details on the subject of the wines of the Rhingau.

330.  Voyage en Autriche, &c.  Par De Serres.  Paris, 1814. 4 vols. 8vo.—­An immense mass of geographical and statistical information, in a great measure drawn from German authors, on Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia.

331.  Viaggio sul Reno e ne suoi contorni di P. Bertolo. 1795. 8vo.—­These travels, performed in the autumn of 1787, are elegantly written, rather than very instructive.  They contain, however, some valuable notices respecting the volcanic appearances in the district of Andernach.

332.  Briefe auf einer reise durch Deutschland, 1791.  Leignitz, 1793. 2 vols. 8vo.—­Arts, manufactures, and economy, are the principal topics of these letters.

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