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paper, I left Kingston on the 6th of June, by way of Penn 
Hill, through a mountainous country. 
Brassia maculata was flowering in immense patches on 
the rocks for which this district is remarkable; the roads are 
very narrow in these mountains, and a false step would pre- 
cipitate the traveller several hundred feet perpendicular. 
The numerous fire-flies were lighting their lamps long before 
I arrived at Penn Hill. On reaching it I was sorry to find 
A. Finlay, Esq. had been obliged by ill health to leave for a 
warmer climate, a gentleman to whom I was obligingly sup- 
plied with a letter of introduction from Miss Wray. "The 
night breeze had set in, which was very cold, thermometer 
57°. I was kindly accommodated with a bed by the intelli- 
gent overseer, Mr. Brakenridge, and morning disclosed a 
view of the most romantic description; innumerable deep 
ravines and lofty mountains, covered with a rich vegeta- 
tion, at the back of which rose the Blue Mountain Peak 
in sable majesty, several thousand feet above the rest. 
Penn Hill is beautifully situated in the midst of a plan- 
tation of luxuriant Coffee, a shrub grown only in the 
mountain districts. Starting early on the 7th for Radnor, 
(a coffee plantation, belonging to Dr. Macfadyen, which I 
intended making my head-quarters for a few days) I ob- 
Served some very fine trees of Juniperus Bermudiana, a com- 
mon plant in this district. Passing over coffee plantations, 
I reached the bed of the Yallah’s river, the water was low and 
easily crossed, but in the rainy season this must be impas- 
sable, its dry bed being about 300 yards in width, and covered 
With large loose stones. In a narrow pass grew Ipomæa 
Horsfalliana, flowering profusely, it was certainly the love- 
liest plant I had yet met with; I suspect its native 
country must have been mistaken, for itis described as indige- 
nous to Africa. The Mountain-pride (Spathelia simpler) 
2ecame abundant, and for the first time I saw it in flower, 
its immense panicle of lively rose-coloured flowers, rising 
from the palm-like stem and foliage, rank it amongst the 
Most beautiful of plants. Two shrubby species of Eugenia, 
