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progress made, for want of wind, and the great heat (96^ in his cabin, 

 121° in the sun, and 131° where the boat was covered with black silk), 

 he determined to terminate his voyage up. Having arrived there on 

 the 20th of July, on the following day he commenced his return. The 

 distance through Nubia, from the first cataract to Aboo Zimbel, was 

 about 180 miles; on his way down, he of course visited Philoe, the 

 granite quarries, Thebes, and everything of interest. He reached 

 Cairo on the 2nd of April, and spent a week there. On the 14th of 

 April he left Alexandria in an Austrian steamer for Beyrout, in Syria ; 

 thence on the 25th of April he started, with tents and mules, over the 

 Lebanon range to Balbec; thence through the mountains of the Anti- 

 Lebanon to Damascus ; thence by the site of Dan to the Sea of Galilee, 

 Jericho, and Jerusalem, whence he visited the Dead Sea, and of course 

 all the places of sacred interest. Having stopped there ten days, he 

 went on to Beersheba, and to Gaza, and returned thence by the coast 

 to Beyrout; and having visited Tyre and Sidon, went up to "the 

 cedars," and almost to the summit of Lebanon, about 4000 feet above 

 them. Eeturning to Beyrouth he started in an Austrian steamer, the 

 " Adria," for Smyrna, on his way to Constantinople; but, being taken 

 ill of diarrhcea, he was put on shore at Ehodes on the 3rd of July, and 

 died on the following day, after (it is said) six days' illness. 



"I imagine that he must have made acquaintance with you on 

 some previous journey to Scotland, probably in 1828 or 1829 (when 

 he went, 1 think, to the Isle of Skye) ; but I have nothing to show when 

 it was. You will observe that in 1838 his tour was confined to the 

 eastern side of Scotland. His only other visit to Glasgow would seem 

 to have been in December, 1844." 



Ctpeuus poltstachyus, Rotlb. 



The Botanic Garden has lately received, through the kindness of 

 Edward Ayshford Sanford, Esq., of Nynehead Court, Somerset, a 

 plant of the Cyperus polystacJiyus, from the mouth of the crater of the 

 extinct volcano of the island of Ischia, which, if not possessed of much 

 beauty to recommend it, is interesting from the above-mentioned spot 

 beinff the onlv localitv in Europe, and in its there flourishing where the 



