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not a strong constitution, could survive a single year at Mont- 

 pellier. He has to contend with a burning sun, which, even al- 

 though he keeps within doors, heats the air so, that he is thrown 

 into a violent perspiration, injurious and weakening to the patient. 

 Nor is the climate free from damp : there is seldom rain, it is 

 true, perhaps not once a month on an average ; but when the 

 sea wind blows, which it not unfrequently does, it produces las- 

 situde, weakness, difficulty of breathing, coughs and colds. It 

 is here called the marain; in other parts it is called garhin and 

 Uhesclic^ and on the coast of Italy it is usually known by the names 

 of libeccio or gai^bmo. I have even no doubt of its identity with 

 the pestilential sirocco : so damp is the «narain, that the very 

 doors are observed to swell exceedingly during its continuance. 

 Even the fine weather makes one more liable to be injured by 

 the bad : the heats of the day seem to open the pores of the 

 body, and render an attack of the damps more injurious. Few 

 could be induced, I believe, to remain at Home during the 

 summer months. At Montpellier, the climate is not so bad ; 

 but surely it is not what an invalid ought to be exposed to. 



Account of a Visit to the Glaciers of Jnstedal, and to the Mantle 

 ofLodal*. By G. Bohr, of Bergen. 



JL HE journey to the Mantle of Lodal, the highest mountain 

 summit amidst the splendid and stupendous glaciers which lie 

 between Jvistedal and Olden, may be commenced either from 

 the end of Lysterfiord, or from tlie farm-house of Rodnei, near 

 the Church of Goupe. Mr Bohr chose the first of these routes, 



It will easily be seen, that B. ohovata and B. raphanifolia are not distinct 

 species ; that B. ciliata and B. depressa ought not to be separated ; that B. leio- 

 carpa is scarcely to be distinguished from B. apula, &c. With regard to 

 B. leiocarpa, De CandoUe says, " fructu etiam nascente glaberrimo nee pube 

 minuta scabro ;" but through the author's kindness, I have been able to as- 

 certain, that, in his own specimen, the fruit is exactly as in B. apula, except that 

 in the latter it is scabrous also on the margin^ whilst in B. leiocarpa, it is there 

 perfectly smooth. 



* A mountain in the interior of Norway, so called, from its being always 

 covered with snow. It lies above 150 English miles NE. of Bergen. 



