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116 temperature, it can no longer retain in a tate of olution.

In the coure of the night, the long boat of the Eperance was torn by the gale from her tern, and lot. To upply its place, a ort of light veel ued in the whale-fihery, was purchaed of an American hip.

20th. Though the outh-eat wind continued to blow with great violence, I made an excurion in the neighbourhood of the town, where I found, in great abundance, two pecies of the chironia, termed C. trinervia and C. dendroides. The gorteria ciliaris likewie grew at the foot of the mountains. The beautiful hrub, known by the name of brunéa palacea, adorned the riing grounds. No inects, of coure, could be een whilt the winds blew with uch violence.

I took a view of the Company's garden, of which many travellers peak in terms of enthuiatic admiration. It is, nevertheles, nothing more than an immene incloure, which contains ome very fine oaks. Several quare plots of ground hedged round with myrtles, are planted with kitchen-vegetables; but very few curious plants are to be een there. They alo contain everal of the orchard-trees of Europe. I oberved ome bananas, the leaves of which had been torn into lender trips by the wind. The