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78 what we frequently experience in the warm ummer weather of Europe; the heat threw us into a mot profue perpiration, which gave rie to very troubleome effervecences of the blood.

Between the tropics, the mercury in the barometer tands at a very uniform height. We never oberved it to vary more than an inch and a half, more or les. It generally tood at 28 inches 2 lines, although the atmophere was often agitated by violent torms, which being generated in the interior of Africa, from the coat of which we were not more than about 360,000 toies ditant, were brought over to us by winds from N.E. and E.N.E.

12th. We here caught the fih known among the ichthyologits by the name of ballites verrucous. A great number of a mall pecies of whales (ouffleurs) wam about our hips, followed in their tardy coure by harks which fed upon their excrements.

A quall from the S.E. gave us intimation of the gales from the ame quarter, that prevailed in the ditant regions under the equator; though they blow there generally from the N.E. during this eaon, when the un remains almot two months within the Tropic of Capricorn.

14th. A hark that had been preceded by a number of the fihes called pilots (gateroteus ductor, Linn.)