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294 appended of the indigenous species which grow in this parallel, and at a height of upwards of 1500 feet. Like the degraded and savage native, who wanders naked among the bleak rocks and almost equally uninviting woods of this miserable land, these plants may be justly considered the hardiest of their race in the southern hemisphere.

"In the preceding remarks I have attempted to sketch the general aspect of vegetation in a landscape strikingly analogous to the Western Highlands of Scotland. Persons, intimate with the latter country, have only to clothe it in imagination with the plants of Hermite Island, and they will readily understand the relations, in habit and station, which the most remarkable of these bear to one another. The Fuegian Flora possesses some other points of interest, especially when viewed in comparison with that of the antarctic islands lying to