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similar to Swartzia, and I subsequently found this little tree 
every where on the shore about Stirling. 
Sunday, September 12.—We remained quietly at anchor. 
Monday, September 13.—1 went on shore to botanize 
amongst the ruins of Adda-Kuddu, but the hot sun quickly 
forced me back. Papaws are here still frequent ; also some 
sorts of Cucurbitacee, which, with Asclepiadee and Creepers, 
have overgrown the ruined huts. A Lemna growing in a 
puddle was the same as I had seen at Iddah. I observed 
here but a single Pistia float by; whilst the day before, we 
met with them in abundance, floating on the Quorra (Niger). 
In the afternoon I went again to Stirling hill, and explored 
it for a short time; but found the soil to consist of sand- 
stone, impregnated with iron, and therefore bad. A few 
spots only exhibited vegetable soil, formed of decomposed - 
plants. 
Tuesday, September 14.— At six o'clock we climbed 
Mount Pattéh. It is rather steep, difficult of ascent, and 
covered with many boulders of red iron sandstone. "The 
pea-like formation is remarkable. There were single strata 
of quartz. The cultivation of Yams, Capsicum, Guinea grain, — — 
(now without blossom or fruit) a bean or Dolichos, and a few — . 
Bananas, continued to the summit. A streamlet, running : 
down from somewhere about midwaÿ of the mount, had 
bed of clay, which is also more or less mix 
generally, and along this channel the chief brus Brew. — 
'Largish isolated trees are met over the whole declivity, pro | 
. bably remnants of former forests. It looks as if the useful | 
_ trees had been preserved. Four species occurred p E 
often ; Baobab; Parkia, now without fruit or blossom, bi 
with foliage ; Betsiphalis, sometimes a stately tree, 
with long branches showing a disposition to climb 
“He ham (Spondias), but this rt at the summi: 
