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 ¬tions, by the heat of a fire instead of by the parent's incubation, that animal instinct becomes lost for ever in the race so matured, though all the other characteristics of the species are conti- nued : but why or wherefore nobody can tell. — Just so, and without meddling with any theory, I have only to relate, that during the whole time I was in Swaloal I seldom saw the sun, nor was it to be seen any where else in Armata throughout the diurnal sphere ; their summers had entirely taken their leave, and gone over to the winter months, which were mild and de- lightful — Phoebus rejoicing in the sky till the return of spring, when he appeared, as I was told, with a P P C upon his disk. — I need hardly say, that the harvests suffered grievously by this inauspicious transition, but the artificial system of Swaloal went on just the same — Art every where supplied the place of nature, and. even excelled her in her happiest days : — the tables of the wealthy were covered with a pro- fusion of the choicest fruits, and a couple of hundred chickens were often seen upon a single ¬g 2 board ; ¬