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shut up by snow, when the greater part of the inhabitants retire to 

 the low valleys. On the 24th of May the snow capped the moun- 

 tains above 700 feet, but was fast melting on that day. I visited one, 

 in height a few hundred feet less — Mount Cragus : large patches of 

 snow were on its sides, and we plucked tulips from the parts un- 

 covered, also crocuses. We ascended from the valley of the Xanthus 

 in the morning, when all appeared advancing summer — the corn was 

 ripe and the heat intense ; but at noon we descended into a climate 

 where the vegetation showed a dawning spring. These changes are 

 very curious, and one of the sources of interest to the traveller. Our 

 labours in Lycia have been crowned with success; we have dis- 

 covered several ancient cities by examining others which were before 

 known ; have identified their names from inscriptions found amongst 

 their ruins, and shall thus correct many errors of our predecessors, 

 Mr. Fellows, &c, who opened the interests of this unknown part of 

 Asia Minor to the world by two journeys through it. He won the 

 laurels of his fame by first discovering, and by his most praiseworthy 

 perseverance and exertions in endeavours to procure for his country 

 its riches. All the results of our digging during the last winter are 

 now on their way to England by the Monarch and Medea. The 

 ships' companies had tough work in the removal of them. When we 

 passed through the ruins on our return we found them hard at it 

 with bullock-carts and hand-trucks, with flat-bottomed boats con- 

 veying the heavy blocks down to the sea. The officers and men suf- 

 fered very much from mosquitoes and fever. Termessus was our 

 greatest discovery, which we found about eight miles N.W. of Adela, 

 and Cibyra, the next, both of which are identified by inscriptions cut 

 in them. The ruins of the former are so extensive that we had not 

 time to examine it minutely." 



We are happy to have received much later intelligence from a gen- 

 tleman just arrived in England, who states that on his passing through 

 Syra he heard that Mr. Forbes had quite recovered. We learn also 

 from the Prospectus of the Summer Course at King's College, Lon- 

 don, that he has been appointed to succeed Mr. Don in the Botanical 

 Professorship. 



The Antarctic Expedition. 



The Alarm, Capt. T. L. Stewart, left Guernsey last year for the 

 Falkland Islands, and departed from thence at the end of May last 

 for Buenos Ayres. A gentleman of this island (Guernsey) having 

 received a letter by her, giving some account of Capt. Ross and the 

 vessels under him, engaged on a scientific voyage of discovery to- 

 wards the Antarctic Pole, has favoured us with the following ex- 

 tract : — 



" Captain Ross and the Antarctic expedition are now here. The 

 Erebus and Terror came in contact, on endeavouring to escape an 

 iceberg, in the seas of the Southern Pole. The expedition will posi- 

 tively be here for five or six months to repair the vessels and to make 

 observations. 



" Captain Ross has been so kind, at my request, to ascertain the 

 rate of evaporation in these islands ; and Hooker, the botanist, is also 

 so good as to draw up a report on the Grasses, the prevailing Gra* 



