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PLACE. 
MONTH. 
LIMIT. 
TEMPEBATUBE. 
HEAT. 
COLD 
Para. 
August. 
l*‘to31** 
86° 
77° 
Brazil. 
1 — 13 
84 
76 
September. 
1 — 30 
84 
77 
October. 
1 — 31 
85 
76 
Nov. and Dec. 
24 — 11 
84 
77 
December. 
1—31 
84 
77 
Maranham. 
September. 
23 — 30 
84 
78 
October. 
1 — 31 
83 
76 
November. 
1 — 21 
82 
78 
8 — 25 
83 
78 
The same intelligent friend (Capt. Sir Everard Home, Bart.,) 
in reply to some queries put to him, has given the following in¬ 
teresting notices:— 
“ There is no fear of the Pines {Araucaria excehd) being ex¬ 
hausted upon Norfolk Island. The island is very nearly covered 
with'them; their outline having, at a distance, the appearance of 
Cathedral ruins, &c., as the light or shade may be; and the 
convicts do no more work than they are obliged. 
“ I forget whether I mentioned to you that the island was. 
formerly covered with orange-trees. The Commandant, in 1827, 
Colonel Morrison, believing that the fruit fm-nished means of 
sustenance to the runaway convicts, caused them to be destroyed, 
with a very few exceptions, which trees have since gone oft; and 
although every means have been taken to re-establish them, they 
will not succeed. In 1844 there was but one tree upon the 
island, and that was in an unhealthy state. 
“ In the Island of Ascension, the vegetables cultivated in the 
garden will not re-produce their seed: the seed being supplied 
by contract, it is often old and bad. When I was there, this time 
last year, they had not vegetables to give the sick in the hospital, 
the consequence of which was that the men did not recover; and 
those sent to the island from the Coast of Africa, instead of re¬ 
turning thence to their duty, were invalided, and sent to England. 
I think the gardens of those islands might be supplied regularly 
with good seed, from some Government establishment in England 
that could be depended upon. In New Zealand, beans, peas, 
&c., do not bear a crop until the second year. 
“ In Van Diemen’s Land it is believed that neither fruit nor 
flowers have the same flavour or perfume as here, although 
they are very fine. Nor have bees the same degree of venom in 
their stings. 
“ The largest known tree there is twenty-four knd a half feet 
