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sides, thereby giving a pretty colouring to our white gar- 
ments. ]t being late ere we quitted the mountains, some 
trusty negroes came to meet us, entertaining a fear that 
an accident might have happened to us. We changed 
our dresses at Boyd’s Fountain plantation, refreshed our- 
selves with wine and water, and rode comfortably home. 
The ladies were not a little surprised at the state of our 
white dresses, and could not be easily convinced that they 
were less valuable than the plants. 
On the 15th of June, we made a still more interesting 
tour up a mountain, called Mount Miseri, 4,000 feet high. 
It is said to derive its name from the circumstance of Colum- 
bus, on passing by this mountain in sailing by St. Kitt’s, 
having called out, whilst pointing to a boil below his shoul- 
der: “ Mons miseri !”” 
: We proceeded, in the morning, until we got to the steep - 
- . part, where we left our horses. The somewhat cooler air 
. 4nd the shrubs and trees, similar in many cases to our own 
. recalled home to my mind, only with this difference, that 
Wherever I stretched out my hand, something new was to be 
. got for my basket. As we ascended, Cryptogamia increased ; 
 Bround and trees were covered with ferns, one of which was 
. itself arborescent. At the crater on the top we all sat down, 
8nd enjoyed a prospect such as I had never before seen. In- 
ascend it. It was abundantly covered with mosses, tow mds 
Which I looked with anxiously longing eyes. As a compen- 
sation, I found on the stone upon which I was seated, a 
utiful, and to me yet unknown, Stereocaulon. Towards the 
left we looked down into the crater, with its splendid and 
mostly perpendicular walls of rocks, the borders being 
crowned by the proudly rising “ Liows-head,” which only a 
few bold adventurers have dared to climb. The view of the 
island and sea is indescribably beautiful, both in outline. | 
. 3nd also on account of the splendid colouring, which gives to 
. tropical countries such peculiar charms. 
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front of us, a rock towered boldly upwards, having withstood ` | 3 
€very volcanic eruption, as well as every attempt of manto — oe 
