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Rh where we had a river to cros, which retarded us three days, on account of our numbers. As the weather was very warm, we advanced lowly, and found it exceedingly pleaant to travel along the roads haded with the preading branches of fruit—bearing trees, bending under their lucious burthens of bannas, mangoes, and tamarinds. Beneath the trees, were many cool prings and wells of the finet water in the univere, with which the whole country of Indotan abounds: a triking intance of the widom of Providence, that tempers "the bleak wind to the horn lamb," and the corching heat of the torrid zone to the way-worn traveller. The