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Holland Bay, an extensive sandy plain begins, covered for 
several miles with a beautiful forest of Thrinar parviflora, to 
the exclusion of every thing else. I here observed a few 
scattered plants of Canella alba (the Jamaica Cinnamon), a 
pretty shrub, which bears lively rose-coloured flowers. A 
small pond afforded me Menyanthes Indica, a pretty little 
aquatic, with delicate, white, imbricated flowers, produced at 
the extremity of the leaf-stalk. After traversing for about 
two miles a forest of Palms, 20 to 30 feet high, we reached 
the light-house. I was told that twenty acres of Palms had 
been cut down for its erection, but not a vestige of vegeta- 
tion at present remains in its immediate vicinity. The light- 
house, a lofty and elegant building of its kind, commands a 
beautiful view of the coast for many miles, with the high 
mountains of the interior scarcely perceptible through a 
dense blue mist. The charming grove of Palms which we 
had crossed, stretches for several miles in every direction, 
growing down to the very water's edge, their waving fan-like 
foliage and slender stems giving them a peculiarly graceful 
and pleasing aspect. The heat was intense, thermometer 96° 
in the shade, and the mosquitos and sand-flies flew about in 
myriads. It would be difficult to say which is the most tor- 
menting of these insect-plagues. I felt very unwell, and was 
aware, from having no sensible perspiration, which is a cer- 
tain indication of the presence of fever, that I was threat- 
ened with illness. It was not, however, till I had gathered 
specimens and plants of évery thing to be had, that I re- 
turned, having some time exhausted the patience of my 
friends, Mr, Blunt and Mr. Scott, of Dukinfield, who had 
accompanied me, and who were urgent on me to go back 
without further delay. 
On approaching Holland Bay, I observed a large tract of 
forest, which had been destroyed in the great storm of 1815. 
The sea had then made an inroad, and afterwards receded, 
leaving a dead forest behind, which exhibits a most singular 
appearance, not unlike an immense fleet in harbour. It 
covers probably five hundred acres, with not a particle of 
