consisting partly in the exportation of country produce, more especially the Silphium, (Laser,) partly in a varied intercourse with Carthage, Ammonium, and thence with the interior of Africa. The former splendour and importance of this city and the neighbouring country are testified by an abundance of most noble ruins; a more accurate research into which every friend of antiquity must desire. HARDION, _Histoire de Cyrene_, in _Mem. de l'Academie des Inscriptions_, t. iii. J. P. THRIGE, _Historia Cyrenes, inde a tempore quo condita urbs est, usque ad aetatem, qua in provinciae formam a Romanis redacta est: particula prior, de initiis coloniae Cyrenen deductae, et Cyrenes Battiadis regnantibus historia_. Havniae, 1819. The best work on Cyrene. It is hoped that the author will not disapppoint our expectations of the second part, which is to contain the period of republican government. [The whole was completed in 1828. The learned and ingenious author has neglected no authority whether ancient or modern, and is particularly cautious and judicious in his researches.] A ray of light has lately, for the first time, been thrown on the remains still found in Cyrenaica by DELLA CELLA, _Viaggio di Tripoli_; translated by Spieker, in the # _Journal of the latest travels by sea and by land_, Sept. 1820. W. BEECHEY, _Proceedings to explore the northern coast of Africa from Tripoli eastward_, 1827. F. R. PACHO, _Relation d'un voyage a Marmarique et Cyrenaique_, 1828. A most accurate description. T. EHRENBERG, _Travels through North Africa_, in the years 1820-1825, by Dr. W. F. Hemprich and Dr. C. G. Ehrenberg. Berlin, 1828. THIRD PERIOD. _From the commencement of the Persian wars to the time of Alexander the Great, B. C. 500-336._