the Cochineal Insect and the Cacrus from Guaxaca, and 
transported them to St. Domingo, and who unquestionably 
had the best means of determining the kinds of Cacrtr, cul- 
tivated for the Insect, describes particularly three sorts, 
on which it may be reared and cultivated to advantage. 
1. The Cactier Nopal ; upon which alone the Cochineal 
is reared in Mexico, both the fine and the common Cochineal 
(la Cochenille fine et sylvestre) although there are through- 
out the country, many other kinds of Cacrus. The two 
following, therefore, it is presumed, are employed in St. 
Domingo. 
2. ‘The Cactier Splendide ; which may be used to equal 
mite with the former ; and 
3. The Cacrier de Campéche. 
Of these, the first, as far as can be determined by de- 
scription, for the writer had never seen the flower or fruit, 
is the Cacrus Tuna of Linnazus; C. coccinellifer of De 
CANDOLLE. _ 
The second appears from the account to be very similar 
‘to the former, but larger in its joints (some of them thirty 
inches long), and very glaucous. 
The third, the C. de Campéche, is, 1 think, without a 
doubt, our C. cochinillifer, for his whole description, and 
especially the flowers and fruit, entirely correspond ; and 
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ill health, he obtained permission to use the baths of the river Magdalena ; 
but instead of going thither, he proceeded, through various difficulties and 
dangers, as fast as possible, to Guaxaca; where, after making his obser- 
vations, and obtaining the requisite information, he affected to believe that 
the Cochineal Insects were highly useful in compounding an ointment for 
his pretended disorder (the gout), and therefore purchased a quantity of 
Nopals, covered with these Insects, of the fine or domestic breed, and putting 
them in boxes with other plants, for their better concealment, he found means 
to get them away as Botanic trifles, unworthy of notice, notwithstanding the 
prohibitions by which the Spanish Government had endeavoured to hinder 
their exportation ; and being afterwards driven by a violent storm into the 
bay of Campeachey, he there found and added to his collection a living 
Cacrus, of a species which was capable of nourishing the fine domesticated 
ineal ; after which, departing for St. Domingo, he arrived safe, with his 
acquisitions, on the twenty-fifth of September, in the same year, at Port au 
Prince. Though almost unaided, M. Tarerry de MeNonviL.e, there perse- 
vered in cultivating, not only the fine Cochineal (which he brought from 
Mexico) but also the Sylvestre, which he afterwards found wild in St. Do- 
mingo, and so successfully, that in 1789, there were more than four thousand 
plants in a single Nopalery, the produce having been ascertained by chymists 
to be equal in quality to that of Mexico. The political troubles in St Domingo. 
consequent upon the French Revolution, caused the total destruction of these 
plantations. 
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