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the shade. I reached Radnor in the evening, about 6 
P.M., my horse appearing to feel the effects of his fall on the 
previous day. 
27th.—Returned to Portland Gap for some more tree- 
Jerns, one of those I had brought the day before having 
been dropped on the pass, and was destroyed. With some 
diffieulty I brought down two large specimens and several 
small ones. 
28th.—After packing up my specimens, and all the plants 
I could carry with me, which made a heavy burthen for 
my baggage mules, I left Kingston by the way of Guava 
Ridge. The roads were steep and narrow, and my progress 
therefore slow, the load touching against the rocks or trees, 
was constantly requiring shifting. On the banks of the 
Anchovy River, a tributary to the Yallah, I gathered several 
plants of the white Ipomea I had before seen. It was 
mid-day before 1 crossed the Yallah’s River, owing to 
my unwieldy load, and the nature of the road. On as- 
cending from the river, I for the first time noticed the 
Securidaca virgata. This splendid twining plant had over- 
run everything for several yards, and was completely covered 
with delicate pink flowers, not unlike some species of 
Polygala. But few Orchidaceous plants grew here; Brassia 
maculata was abundant. On the rocks near Penn Hill I 
obtained specimens of Aspidium glandulosum, also a curious 
Excoecaria, and in old Coffee grounds a species of Piper over- 
runs large tracts of land, forming a remarkable feature in the 
scenery; it is rarely met with in natural and original forests, 
but once fallen and neglected, it, with several other species of 
Piper and Cecropia peltata, appears to form a secondary vege- 
tation. From the time the land is cleared for coffee on these 
rugged mountains, a process of exhaustion begins; the heavy 
rains and rapid rivers carrying such vast quantities of soil 
down annually, as render many once valuable properties, little 
else than an encumbrance to their owners. 
On reaching the plains the vegetation presented a sterile ap- 
pearance, for although I had met with plenty of rain, not a 
