STUDIES 



OF 



N A T tJ R E, 



PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 



ON the eaftern declivity of the mountain which 

 rifes behind Port-Louis, in the Ifle of France, 

 are ftill to be feen, on a fpot of ground formerly- 

 cultivated, the ruins of two little cottages. They 

 are fituated almoft in the middle of a bafon, formed 

 by enormous rocks, which has only one opening 

 turned toward the North. From that opening, 

 you perceive, on the left, the mountain known by 

 the name of Mount-Difcovery, from which fignals 

 are repeated, of veffels fleering for the ifland ; and, 

 at the bottom of this mountain, the city of Port- 

 Louis ; to the right, the road which leads from 

 Port-Louis to the quarter of Pamplemoufles ; af- 

 terwards the church of that name, which rifes, 

 with it's avenues of bamboos, in the middle of a 

 great plain ; and, beyond it, a foreft which extends 

 to the fartheft extremities of the ifland. You have, 

 in front, on the brink of the Sea, a view of Tomb- 



B 4 bay ; 



