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conspicuously in the distance, Before me was stretched the 
plain of Liguanea, bounded towards the South by the sea, and 
on the East by the precipitous range of the Blue Mountains. 
The sun had not yet emerged above the horizon, the hills 
were unclouded, and the outline of their woody ridges was most 
distinctly marked. The air was cool the thermometer 
standing at 64^, and we journeyed on, refreshed by the 
occasional land-breeze that came across us, laden with the 
fragrance of flowers— 
** Gentle gales 
Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispensed 
Native perfumes, and whispered whence they stole 
Their balmy spoils.” ss 
This is indeed that season of the day when we can boast 
that this climate affords us all we can desire; the delightful 
coolness of the matin prime is rendered more grateful by the 
recollection of the parched noon of the preceding day, the 
oppressive heat of which a few hours are about to bring 
back. There is one deficiency, however, that must ever strike 
the traveller from Europe. No song of the feathered tribes 
greets him in his way. At times, it is true, he may listen to 
the lay of our Transatlantic nightingale, ( Turdus polyglottus,) 
as, seated on some spray, it pours its rich and varied note in 
reply to some other of its species, with whom it would ap- 
pear to carry on a rivalry in song. More commonly, how- 
ever, we are annoyed with the harsh cry of the Savannah 
Black-bird, (Crotophaga Ani,) which gives warning to its com- 
panions of the approach of a stranger, or to the chirp of the 
Grass-bird, or the dreary note of the Bald-coot, (Fulica atra, ) 
sounding from some lonely morass. - j 
The Botany of the immediate neighbourhood of ; Spanish- 
Town is far from being interesting. The land which is not 
cleared for the purposes of pasturage is almost entirely 
occupied by thickets of Logwood, (Hematoxylon Campechia- 
num,) the Poponaz, (Acacia tortuosa,) and the Cashaw, (A. 
Juliflora.) These are all introduced plants, which have be- 
come naturalized. They are useful as fuel; being recom- 
