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in a very unattractive point of view. The traveller does 
not here, as in more genial latitudes, descend from lofty 
mountains into smiling fertile vales, where a bright sky 
makes him forget all his fatigues; on the contrary, he 
must submit to be drenched with continually recurring 
rains, to experience frost even in the nights of summer, 
and to wade through bogs, which accompany him for 
days together, with little or no interruption. The greatest 
attention on our part has been requisite, from the nature of | 
the country, for the preservation of the collections. Deep 
and rapid rivers had to be forded with baggage, for many 
days in succession; whilst the frequent rains, and the low 
state of the atmosphere, presented, at times, almost 
insurmountable difficulties. At night, when we attempted 
to secure our collections in our tent, the wet state of 
the ground on which they were piled, and the heavy 
showers without, occasioned them to contract so much 
moisture, that it required no little precaution to keep them 
from spoiling. The only remedy we had, was to shift the 
plants frequently into papers dried by the camp fire.” 
This, it must be acknowledged, was a very tedious though a 
necessary operation, and it was rendered the more toilsome 
from the limited quantity of paper they took with them 
for such large collections. All had to be conveyed on pack- 
horses, and all had to be so carried through the whole 
Journey, there being no convenient depót where any portion 
of them could be left in security. Nevertheless, all safely 
reached Dorpat: forty-two chests of living plants and seeds 
were obtained; and, with few exceptions, they have all 
succeeded. The Herbarium, contained 1600 species, (€*- 
cluding the few Cryptogamie,) and of these, almost one 
fourth are new species. The Botanic Garden obtained - 
1300 species, of which 500 had hitherto never been cultivated; 
and the duplicates have been generously distributed. 
, eM ogy was not neglected. 21 species of Mammalia, 65 
| Birds, 23 Amphibia, and 550 species of Insects are deposited 
inthe museum, the result of their journey: among the former. 
of these may be mentioned the Steinbock Antelope, many 
