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* Now, my dear friend, you have my botanical account of 
Sitcha: I wish that you may be pleased with it, as I have 
drawn it up at some cost of time and trouble, in order to 
prove to you, however inadequately, the gratification that I 
derive from the remembrance of those happy hours that I was 
so fortunate as to pass in your company." 
. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE 
OF THE LATE 
CAPTAIN DUGALD CARMICHAEL, F.L.S. 
By the Rev, Corin SurrB, Minister of Inverary. 
[Concluded from p. 343, vol. 2.) 
CaPrAIN CARMICHAEL returned from the Isle of Bourbon to 
the Cape of Good Hope with his regiment in the year 1814; 
and the various success with which he pursued his inquiries 
into the natural history of the Cape and its neighbouring 
districts, has been already detailed in the preceding pages. 
In July, 1815, on a requisition being made by the Earl of 
Moira, then Governor-General of India, for as many troops 
as could be spared from the Cape of Good Hope, the 72d 
regiment was selected for that service, and ordered to proceed 
for the Peninsula. ‘As the call was extremely urgent,” con- 
tinues Captain Carmichael, ** we were embarked as fast as the 
vessels could be equipped for us, and each was directed to 
make the best of her way to Bengal. The Morley transport, 
carrying the head-quarters of the regiment, and in which I 
sailed, was the last that cleared Table Bay, and this: mm 
place on Sunday the 9th July, 1815. 
* On the parallel of 38°, on which we ran Bios our iini 
tude, we found the weather uniformly disagreeable. A hazy 
atmosphere, the horizon circumscribed by a muddy bank of 
clouds; strong westerly winds, increasing frequently to 
furious gales; and showers of sleet or hail, with a high 
tumultuous sea that knew no interval of tranquillity. Such 
