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very portion that has attracted the smallest share of attention 
being the kingdom of Grenada, whose claims to notice are 
peculiarly great. Its position, the most southerly part of the 
Spanish Peninsula, its proximity to the African coast and the 
chains of lofty mountains which traverse it, must indubitably 
give birth to very varied aspects of vegetation, and present 
many interesting facts in botanical geography. To this new 
country, I proposed to direct my steps. The civil war which 
then, as indeed now raged in Spain, did not deter me; I 
foresaw, what events have unfortunately proved, that it was 
needless to wait in the expectation of its conclusion ; this war, 
too, had never been quite permanent in Andalusia; and so far 
as concerned a traveller’s personal safety and exemption from 
precautions, such a happy state of things had never existed 
in Spain, under any kind of government or at any one 
period. Various circumstances arose to produce delay, and I 
could not accomplish my departure from Switzerland till the 
latter part of March, 1837. This was rather later than I 
should - have desired, for the southern regions which I de- 
signed to visit; but I was favoured by the very cold winter 
that had generally prevailed in Europe, and retarded the pro- 
gress of vegetation. When I started, the neighbourhood of 
Geneva was covered with snow ; at Lyons the snow had 
ceased, but the injury it had done was very evident, the 
olive-trees and almonds having been frozen while in flower; 
and at Marseilles, all the environs were still wrapt in the 
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the very incomplete work of Asso; the boundaries of the 
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5555 and quite latterly the travels of Durieu into the Asturias, ably de- 
iras by M. Gay, will give as much information upon the vegetation of those 
Provinces. A short eatalogue of the plants found near Cadiz and some speci- 
um ns collected at Malaga by Salzmann, form the amount of our acquaintance 
With the productions of Andalucia; while Gibraltar was visited by Picard, a 
French apothecary. Portugal is, perhaps, somewhat better known. The Flora 
Lusitanica, and the Phytographia of Brotero, are devoted to the vegetation o 
this country, as well as the unfinished work by Link and Hoffmansegg, which 
Was begun on too expensive a scale to admit of its ever being completed. 
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