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Ayres. With this view, Mr. Burchell left England in 

 March, 1825, passed two months at Lisbon and its vicinity, 

 and landed, in July, at Rio de Janeiro, which he did not 

 finally quit till September, 1826. During that period, he 

 collected largely in Botany, Entomology, Geology, &c. : 

 made astronomical, philosophical, and geodetical observa- 

 tions, together with several drawings of the country, and, 

 among others, a panoramic view, taken from the middle of 

 the city ; he also visited a part of Minas Geraes. From Rio, 

 Mr. Burchell proceeded by sea to Santos, where he remained 

 three months, exploring the neighbouring districts. Cubatao 

 was his next station, in a solitary hut in the midst of forests, 

 with a view to investigate the productions of the great range 

 of mountains, at the foot of which it stands, and to examine 

 the chain at his leisure : there he remained two months. At 

 the city of San Paulo, nearly under the tropic of Capricorn, 

 our enterprising Naturalist found abundant employment for 

 seven months, making that place his head-quarters, and ex- 

 tending his researches in various directions from thence. 

 There Mr. Burchell engaged muleteers and purchased 

 mules; and, travelling northwards, finally fixed himself for 

 nine months at Goyaz, being the first Englishman that had 

 entered that province : there, too, he passed the rainy season 

 of 1827, and made large collections, partly detained by the 

 difficulty of procuring conveyance for his luggage. In a 

 letter we had the gratification of receiving from him, dated 

 Goyaz, April 25th, 1828, he says, " I have now for five 

 months carried on a series of observations. The Botanical 

 part of my collection already includes more than 5000 

 species, and the last number of my American Catalogus 

 Geographicus is 7063. The Entomological portion is eight or 

 nine times as large as my African collection was ; and all the 

 other departments are considerable, excepting the Mammalia 

 and Fishes ; and if I am equally successful on the road between 

 this place and Para, I may yet add two or three thousand more 

 species to my herbarium; and to the other parts in proportion. 

 Although my progress over this Continent has not been rapid, 

 yet I have kept my original plan always in view, and had 



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