2it TOREEN'S VOYAGE. 



The fan was exactly vertical to us ; the 

 thunder was heard to make an exceeding 

 great noife, efpecially on the Cardomom moun- 

 tain : the heat was fo intolerable, that even 

 the natives were forced to keep in during 

 the middle of the day. The poifon of makes 

 and of other venomous animals feems to be 

 more fatal in hot climates than in cold ; if 

 the accounts we have in Sweden of the viper's 

 bite, and in Eajl India of the fcorpion's fling, 

 are true. The French therefore quite diffuaded 

 tae from going into the woods. Nor could I 

 have made any ufeful obfervations there ; for 

 the perfon that undertakes to amend and ex- 

 plain the Hortus Malabaricus ought to be maf- 

 ter of the Portugueze and Malabaric names, 

 which Baron Rhede has confounded ; and the 

 time of one's flay here ought to be the whole 

 rainy feafon; becaufe at other times the burnt- 

 up Malabaric foil is unable to produce either 

 flowers or fruits ; but this feafon is very dan- 

 gerous for Ihips on account of the hurricanes. 



It is impoffible to examine a plant in fuch 

 a fcorching heat, without one knows all its 

 character i flics as it were by heart : for while 

 you hold it between the fingers for a moment 



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