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debilitated state of health would permit, in visiting such parts 

 of the island as were accessible to him, as well as the Botanic 

 Garden at Pamplemouse, of which he speaks in the following 

 terms: — "It is about seven miles from Port Louis, and is very 

 extensive, occupying a spot of about forty acres. I saw there 

 with much pleasure very many rare exotics from India, Africa, 

 Madagascar, &c., among which were Tancecium pinnatiim, 

 Wall., thirty feet high, having racemes two feet long of red 

 flowers, two species of Myristica, Agathophyllum aromati- 

 cum. Will., Barringtonm speciosa, Ficus elastica, Arto- 

 carpus incisa, A. integrifolia, Garcinia celehica, Caryophyl- 

 his aromaUcus, Eugenia rnalaccensis, E. Janibos, Teetona 

 grandis, Semecarpus anacardium, Ilymencea verrucosa, 

 Calophyllum Caldba, Pandanus four species, Spondias 

 mangifera,'Wi\\., and in Palms the garden is very rich. Sagus 

 Ruffiji, Areca Catechu, A. alha, A. madagascarensis, Lodoi- 

 cea maldavica. Lab., with several others not known." 

 Having completed their supplies, the Bathurst sailed from 

 Port Louis on the 15th November, and anchored in King 

 George's Sound on the 23d December. Mr Cunningham's 

 health, during their stay at the Mauritius, had been far from 

 good, and on their departure he was compelled to place hun- 

 self once more on the doctor's list. He says, " The general 

 debility of body, deranged liver, and particularly soreness 

 of my throat, under which I had laboured during the whole 

 of our stay at the Isle of France, obliged me upon leaving 

 that colony to submit to a course of mercury. I have there- 

 fore been whollv under the care of our sur^^eon till the even- 

 ing of the 22d (December), when I was discharged from his 

 list, although somewhat debilitated with the severity of the 

 attack upon my liver, as well from the abstemious strictly 

 low regimen as from the medicines used to bring about my 

 cure. It has therefore afforded me subject-matter of joy to 

 be again restored to health, just at the moment (upon our re- 

 turn to the coast of New Holland,) when opportunities call 

 forth my utmost industry, upon shores abundantly rich in the 

 most valuable and important stores that Flora has to present 



