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On tlie 27tb, at 8, began our march towards Rennes. We rested at Broons, 

 and Mountauban, and arrived at the city of Rennes the 29th. The officers 

 were allowed to go to a tavern, and we, who were ranked as adjutants, were 

 conducted with the ship's company to the common goal, where we were 

 'continued, notwithstanding a number of representations to the general 

 commanding here, until the 2nd of March, having had what they styled a 

 day's sejour. I should much rather we had continued en route, as we were 

 placed in this goal among criminals and malefactors of every denomination, 

 where we found ourselves covered with vermin, in spite of every effort used 

 to avoid it. We had now another guard ordered— joined our officers, and 

 were very much pleased to be once more in the pure air. Marched on 

 towards Vitre, where we arrived about 8 o' clock at night ; having gone over 

 nearly 10 leagues this day. We had great difficulty to get admitted into any 

 of the inns ; still more to procure any refreshments. Upon remonstrating with 

 the landlord at the miserable supper he had provided us, and the very high 

 price he had charged— he called us English dogs, told us that we ought to 

 have been glad to have got any thing, and the officer was to blame for not 

 placing us in a stable, or in some other place better appropriated for such 

 brutes than an inn— if he had his will, he \*^ould very shortly treat us as such 

 dogs merited, &c. 



7o be continued. 



(GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, HABITAT, AND 

 MIGRATIONS OF FISHES. 



Concluded from page 268 of volume V. 



In the warm seas of the Tropics, and particularly in 

 the Pacific and Indian Oceans, certain genera belong 

 so constantly to the deep water, that they can rarely 

 be considered as seeking soundings ; such are Choe- 

 todons Acanthuri and Balistes ; delighting much to 

 roam about the vertical reefs and islands which 

 abound in those latitudes, and often have more than 

 one hundred fathoms of water close upon their edge ; 

 the balistes in particular, notwithstanding that they are 

 in want of those vigorous means of swimming which 

 appear to be an indispensable requisite for distant 

 voyages, seem nevertheless from some unascertained 

 cause, to have wandered to the utmost extent of the 

 warm seas, since there are individuals of species, that 

 must be admitted to be identical, found from the 

 coasts of China and Java to the Mediterranean and 



