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in a very unattractive point of view. The traveller does 

 not here, as in more genial latitudes, descend from lofty 

 mountains into smiling fertile vales, where a bright sky 

 makes him forget all his fatigues ; on the contrary, he 

 must submit to be drenched with continually recurring 

 rains, to experience frost even in the nights of summer, 

 and to wade through bogs, which accompany him for 

 days together, with little or no interruption. The greatest 

 attention on our part has been requisite,* from the nature of 

 the country, for the pre.servation of the collections. Deep 

 and rapid rivers had to be forded with baggage, for many 

 days in succession ; whilst the frequent rains, and the low 

 state of the atmosphere, presented, at times, almost 

 insurmountable difficulties. At night, when we attempted 

 to secure our collections in our tent, the wet state of 

 the ground on which they were piled, and the heavy 

 showers without, occasioned them to contract so much 

 moisture, that it required no little precaution to keep them 

 from spoiling. The only remedy we had, was to shift the 

 plants frequently into papers dried by the camp fire." 

 This, it must be acknowledged, was a very tedious though a 

 necessary operation, and it was rendered the more toilsome 

 from the limited quantity of paper they took with them 

 for such large collections. All had to be conveyed on pack- 

 horses, and all had to be so carried through the whole 

 journey, there being no convenient depot where any portion 

 of them could be left in security. Nevertheless, all safely 

 reached Dorpat : forty-two chests of living plants and seeds 

 were obtained; and, with few exceptions, they have all 

 succeeded. The Herbarium, contained 1600 species, (ex- 

 cluding the few CryptogamicB,) and of these, almost one- 

 fourth are new species. The Botanic Garden obtained 

 1300 species, of which 500 had hitherto never been cultivated; 

 and the duplicates have been generously distributed. 

 Zooloo-y was not neglected. 21 species of Mammalia, 64 

 Birds, 23 Amphibice, and 550 species of Insects are deposited 

 in the museum, the result of their journey : among the former 

 of these may be mentioned the Steinbock Antelope, many 



