— heated in passing through the Tropics; for other seeds, carried on by the. 
= Islands ; but again, these growing plants did not survive the voyage to - 
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often walking on the beach, gathering sea-weeds, my. feet 
in the water, and wet to the skin with the dashing surf; I 
left not a hole unsearched, or stone unturned, and on those 
days when violent gales and snow-storms forbade all commu- 
nieation with the shore, I spent my time, and happily, too, 
in drawing, making analyses, and describing the specimens 
which I had brought on board. "There is some danger, how- 
ever, that inaccuracies may have crept into my work, for the 
rolling of the ship often obliged me to hold on, while thus 
employed, and to have my microscope lashed to the table, 
which renders dissection, under the glass, peculiarly diffi- 
cult." E 
A Ward's case,* was brought away, filled with all the plants 
that could be found, all dug up and packed by the same 
active pair of hands as made the above mentioned drawings 
and descriptions. The Captain had kindly harboured this 
box in his cabin during the continual foul weather; but, un- 
fortunately, just before ‘reaching the next port, (Hobar- 
ton, Van Dieman’s Island,) a fine day induced him to set 
_ * The dreadful weather which the ships encountered in the inhospitable 
Antarctic Regions was highly unfavourable to the preservation of living 
plants; which it has been most earnestly the wish of the Commander to — 
send to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. With difficulty the Kergue- — — 
len's Island Cabbaga was kept alive till the ex pedition reached Van Dieman’s 
Island, when it was prudently planted in the Governor’s garden, and soon 
sprouted. Seeds were transmitted to England, but though treated with 
the greatest care, and tried in several places, they showed no; symptoms 
of germinating, though they looked good to the eye. Perhaps they were 
~ Officers, and kept for twelve months, vegetated on being set at the Falkland — 
e M uin - There is no plant that would have given us greater pleasure to . 
EOM troduced to our Gardens, for, by cultivation, there is reason to - 
ieve it will prove a valuable esculent, Farther, it belongs to a perfectly. 
new genus of Crucifere, which Mr. Anderson, the Surgeon and Botanist | 
= Capt. Cook’s third voyage, designed (according to his MSS. deposited , 
in the British Museum,) to have dedicated to Sir John Pringle, President — 
of the Royal Society, andan eminent physician of the day. Le 
