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Oct.] clothes to the ue of the living: they were accordingly carried off, and all puruit after the robbers was in vain.

Citizens Riche and Blavier, engaged in the tudy of natural hitory, had undertaken a journey to the peak the day after we had et out upon ours; but they did not ucceed in reaching the ummit; for whilt they were till at a coniderable ditance from it, their lungs being unable to accommodate themelves to the rarefied atmophere, they were eized with a pitting of blood, which obliged them to relinquih their enterprize.

The following days were employed by us in viiting the environs of St. Croix, where the country is in general very barren.

The town is very thinly peopled, even in proportion to the mallnes of its extent; though the harbour here is more frequented than any other in the iland. The Spaniards have introduced here their own manner of building. The ditribution of the internal part of the houes is the ame with that which they practie in Europe, without any of thoe modifications which the difference of the climate requires.

The Governor-general of the Canary-ilands uually reides at St. Croix. There are everal convents of monks and nuns in this place. One of