New Puhlicatims. 389 



mentioned, that as they were coming up to this pit, one of them 

 observing some of the clothing on the side exclaimed lole, but in 

 a moment afterwards discovered Mr Douglas within the cave, 

 trampled under the feet of the bullock. They went back im- 

 mediately for Edward, who left his work, ran to the house for 

 a musket and ball, and hide, and on coming up to the pit, found 

 the bullock standing upon Mr Douglas's body. Mr Douglas 

 was lying upon his right side. He shot the animal, and after 

 drawing him to the other end of the pit, succeeded in getting out 

 the body. His cane was with him, but the bundle and dog were 

 not. Edward, knowing that he had a bundle, asked for it. Af- 

 ter a few moments' search, the dog was heard to bark, at a short 

 distance a-head, on the road leading to Hilo. On coming up to 

 the place, he found the dog and the bundle. On further exa- 

 mination, it appeared that Mr Douglas had stopped for a mo- 

 ment and looked at the empty pit, and also at the one in which 

 the cow had been taken ; that after passing on up the hill some 

 fifteen fathoms, he laid down his bundle, and went back to the 

 pit in which the bullock was entrapped, and which lay on the 

 side of the pond opposite to that along which the road runs, and 

 that whilst looking in, by making a misstep;, or by some other 

 fatal means, he fell into the power of the infuriated animal, 

 who speedily executed the work of death. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



The Northern Flora^ or a Description of the Wild Plants belonging to 

 the North and East of Scotland ; with an account of their places of 

 growth and properties. By Alex. Murray, M.D. Part I. Svo. 

 Pp. 183. Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh ; Brown & Co. and 

 Clark & Son, Aberdeen ; and Smith & Elder, London. 



In his preface the author justly remarks, that the Flora Scotica 

 of Lightfoot, and the more recent work of Sir William Jackson 

 Hooker, belong rather to the southern and western parts of the king- 

 dom than to Scotland in general. The late eminent Mr Don of 

 Forfar (father of Professor Don of London) long ago made known 

 the botanical riches of the Clova Mountains ; and some partial lists 

 of the plants of the Orkney Islands, and of the county of Suther- 

 land, likewise appeared : but, with these exceptions, the botany of 



