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Nov.] phorecence of the ea. Other ubtances, however, poes likewie the property of giving this appearance to the ea; for many pecies of the crab, and other marine inects of coniderable bulk, ometimes acend from its bottom, and give a luminous appearance to the urface. I have een ome of thee phophoric animals of more than half a foot in length, but they were always accompanied by the mall animalcula above mentioned.

We were informed to-day that they had thrown into the ea, from on board the Eperance, four of the heep they had brought with them from Teneriffe, becaue ome perons had imagined that they had oberved upon them ymptoms of that dieae which our nation is accued of having imported into Europe, from America. The monks of the iland from whence they had brought the heep, had to uffer many evere arcams upon this occaion; though I believe them to have been detitute of foundation; for I have little doubt, that if the animals had been ubjected to a more accurate examination, the crew would not have been deprived of o coniderable a part of their live tock.

Breezes from the S.S.E., which began to blow on the 21t of November, we being in lat. 4° 31′ long. 18° 36′ W. at length put an end to the