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latter, 110 were Mosses. I shall likewise be able to give the tempera- 
ture of Hammerfest, and details respecting its climate—thanks to an 
intelligent merchant residing there, who communicated to me his me- 
teorological observations made regularly during five years. 
From thence I returned to Altet, and from Alten to Tromsoe, to 
visit the lofty Alps of Tromsdeltia. I then went over to the islands 
of Loffoden, passing the dreaded Westfiord. After stopping at Bodoe 
1 followed the western coast of Norway till I reached Trondjem. I 
herborized around Trondjem as I had done round Bodoe, and visited 
the Dovrefield, where I stayed several days, and made an ample harvest 
of plants. Thence I had just descended into the plain of Nissen, when 
I was seized with paralysis. Fortunately all my excursions were 
finished; I was no longer amongst the wilds of Lapland, but where 
medicines and medical aid were at hand. 1 will not stop to tell you 
all my sufferings during forty miserable days of illness, nor afflict you 
by complaining. What I most dreaded was the obstruction of the 
Gulf of Christiania by frost, and the impossibility of getting away. 
However, by the blessing of God, I was well enough to embark on the 
4th of October, and reached this on the 4th of November. 
[We are happy to be able to add that Professor Parlatore's health 
is daily improving. He is finishing his interesting memoir, begun 
before his departure, on the Egyptian (or rather Nubian) and the 
Sicilian Papyrus, which he finds to be two distinet species, and he 
will shortly recommence the publication of the * Flora Italiana."] 
Notes on the Botany of the Care DE VERD ISLANDS; extracted from a 
letter of Dn. C. Borte £o William Willson Saunders, Esq., dated — 
Santa Cruz de Ténériffe, Nov. 10, 1851. — 
The Cape de Verd Islands, on one of which I established my head- - 
quarters, are singularly eut off from communication with the continents - 
of either world, and from one another. There is no regular post to 
this groupe, and but little intercourse is carried on among them. From 
the island of St. Nicholas, where my time was chiefly spent, to St. Ee x 
cent, at which the steamer touches, the distance, as to time, is as great 
as to England! I lived in a most sequestered way for several months, 
and chiefly regretted it because of the difficulty of sending plants io 
you, for I could bave made many valuable additions to your garden and 
