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COXE’s TRAVELS IN RUSSIA. 84r
quered Ruflia, China, Perfia, and Indoftan; and, at more than one period, eftablifhed,
perhaps as large an empire as ever was poflefled by a {ingle nation. The materials for
this publication he collected, partly during an intercourfe with the Mongols, Burats,
and Calmucs, and partly from the communications of Muller and Gmelin.
Hitherto moft authors who have written upon thefe Afiatic hordes, have called them
all indifcriminately by the name of Tartars ; but this erroneous appellation is re¢tified
by Pallas, Who proves unqueftionably that the Mongol tribes are a diftin& race from
the Tartars; differing from them in features, language, and government, and refembling
them in nothing but in their inclination to a roving life. This primitive nation of Afia,
whofe origin, hiftory, and prefent ftate form the fubject of this interefting work, dates its
celebrity from their founder Zinghis Khan, When his vat dominions fell to pieces
under his fucceflors in the fixteenth century, the Mongol and Tartar hordes, who com-
pofed one empire, again feparated, and have fince continued diftin&t and independent.
The Mongol hordes Pallas divides into three principal branches, Mongols, Oerats or
Calmucs, and Burats; which he defcribes with that precifion and accuracy which diltin-
guifh all his writings.
In the fame year in which the profeffor printed his Elenchus Zoophytorum, he alfo pub-
lifhed a treatife under the title of Mifcellanea Zoologica quibus nove imprimis atque obfeure
Animalium Species defcribuntur, et Obfervationibus Iconibufque illuftrantur. This work
‘was incorporated into a fubfequent publication the next year, on his return to Berlin,
entitled, Spicilegia Zoologica; which has been continued in numbers, or fo/ciculi, at un-
certain periods until 1780, when the fourteenth was delivered. It contains, befides the
letter-prefs, feventy-two plates, and reflects the higheft credit on the author, as a moft
careful obferver and critic in zoology. ‘The works of Buffon amply teftify the labours
of Pallas in the fupplementary volumes, and Pennant makes frequent acknowledge-
ments of his obligations to the fame fource, particularly for his Hiftory of Quadrupeds
and Arctic Zoology. fay
In June 1777 the learned profeffor read before the Academy of Peterfburgh, in a
‘meeting at which the King. of Sweden was prefent, a Differtation on the Formation of
Mountains, and the Changes which this Globe has undergone, particularly in the Ruf-
fian Empire. ‘This curious treatife, written in the French tongue, was printed at
St. Peterfburgh ; and a tranflation of it is given by Mr. Tooke in his Ruffia Illu{-
trata. ‘
In 1778 he publifhed Nove Species Quadrupedum e Glirium Ordine. This perform-
ance, printed at Erlang in quarto, contains twenty-feven plates, and defcribes numbers
of the rat genus, and their anatomy. Jn 1781 he brought out Enwmeratio Plantarum
qua in Horto Procopii a@ Demidof Mofcud vigent (Pet. octavo); or, Catalogue of the
“Plants in Mr. Demidot’s Gardens at Mofcow; and in the fame year he gave to the
ublic two volumes, in octavo, of an interefting work in the German tongue, called,
Neue Nordifche Beytrage, &c. or New Northern Colleétions on various Subjects of
Geography, Natural Hiftory, and A griculture, which have been followed by five ad-
ditional volumes.
In 1782 he put forth two fa/ciculi, or numbers, of Icones Infectarum prafertim Ruffia
Siberiaque peculiarium, &c. quarto, Erlang; or, Figures of Infects, principally of thofe
which are peculiar to Ruflia and Siberia, accornpanied with defcriptions and illu{tra-
tions. ‘Thefe two numbers treat of the /carabei, curculiones, tenebriones, bupeftres, me-
dedes, cerambyces, with fix plates, containing coloured figures of one hundred and eighty
infedts of thole genera,
VOL. Vin ~ §P In
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