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Oct.] of Syria, under the appellation of periploca angutifolia. Citizen Desfontaines has likewie collected ome of the ame pecies upon the coats of Barbary.

All the tones that we had hitherto een in thee regions appeared to have undergone the action of fire. As the mountains of this chain that are of the mean elevation conit of large maes, that after being fued mut have retained a great degree of heat for a coniderable length of time; I expected to find the lavas very compact in their texture. My conjecture was confirmed. Their grain is very fine, and their colour for the mot part a deep brown.

Surrounded with thee volcanic remains, we found the heat very oppreive, which appeared to incommode our guides much more than ourelves; o that they exerted all their powers of peruaion in order to prevail upon us to make halt during the day, and only travel in the night-time. They probably imagined that our ole aim was to ee the ummit of the peak, and everal of our company would have had no very great objections againt our journey being conducted upon that plan. But it is eay to uppoe that uch a nocturnal ramble could not promie much advantage to thoe whoe object of puruit was the tudy of natural hitory. The