STATE OF THE 
Hear. WEATHER. 
7, a.m. | l, P.M. | 8, P.M ET 
1813. yis 
Max. į Min. | Max, | Min. | Max. | Min, | Ez & o 
January, ............., 84 | 83 | 88 | 85 | 86 | 83 | 14] 6| H 
February, ........... : 85 | 81 | 88 | 83 | 86 | 82 | 12; 8|. 8 
EM Lo 83]80|85182,83]81] 22 l 8 
T INAR 82 | so | 84] 82 | 83 | 81 | 22|—| 8 
(00 OTIPSMEST QUIE 77] 75 | 82 | 77.1 78 | 75 ] 19] — 1 12 
2o let n 75 | 70) 78) 72) 76 | 711 17| 4) 9 
BEN o cou E. 72 | 70 | 76 | 72 | 74 | 71 | 18 1| 12 
niu ils 73 | 69 | 77 | 73 | 74] 69 | 22] 9| 7 
September,.......... 74 | 71 | 80] 74176] 72 | 16| — | 14 
OUP CU eds d 76 | 711580 | 73 | 76 | 72 || 21 8:4. 7 
November, .......... 80 | 75 | 84 | 80 | 80 | 77 | 21 | —| 9 
| December, oe ieee 81 | 77 | 85 | 80 | 82 | 78 | 20] 1| 10 
“ These islands afford, as might be expected, no great scope 
to the researches of the Zoologist. Of the Mammalia I can 
‘only recollect one species of Simia, two of Vespertilio, the 
Manati, Mush-shrew, Tandrec, the common Rat and Mouse, 
the Hare, the Ceylon Deer, the wild Goat and wild Hog. Of 
these animals, scanty as the catalogue is, the most important 
have been introduced since the discovery of the islands; and 
along with them, it is said, that the Portuguese navigators 
introduced horses and black cattle, both of which were found, 
9n the arrival of the French settlers, to have prodigiously 
multiplied. That goats, hogs, and deer, should have pros- 
pered in a wooded country, is by no means improbable: that 
2 certain proportion even of black cattle might have sub- 
sisted on the scanty, sickly herbage produced in such a 
Situation, there can be no reason to doubt; but when we 
view the external features of these islands, more especially 
of Bourbon—its surface strewed with lava, intersected by 
ravines, and covered to the water's edge with an impenetrable 
forest—it requires all our faith to believe that the horse 
should have multiplied on such a spot, for no situation could 
be imagined less favourable for the propagation of a lively, 
high-spirited animal, destined, from its speed and activity, to 
range in freedom over the open regions of the globe. 
