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high for their industry and knowledge. The late Cava- 

 nilles, resident at Madrid, has also communicated to the 

 learned world much information, from the same source. 

 Spain seems anxious to redeem her reputation, which 

 suffered so much from the neglect, or rather persecution, 

 of the truly excellent but unfortunate Dombey, who, like 

 many other benefactors of mankind, was allowed to make 

 all his exertions in vain, and finally perished unknown, 

 in the diabolical hands of English slave-dealers at Mont- 

 serrat. Portugal is most distinguished at home by the 

 labours of a learned benedictine, Dr. Felix Avellar Bro- 

 tero, author of a Flora Lusitanica, disposed after the 

 Linnaean method, reduced entirely to principles of num- 

 ber ; and abroad by the valuable work of Father Loureiro, 

 entitled Flora Cochinchbiensis, in which the plants of 

 Cochinchina, and of the neighbourhood of Canton, are 

 classed and defined in the Linnaean manner, with valu- 

 able descriptions and remarks. It is undoubtedly a dis- 

 grace to the possessors of such a country as Brasil, that 

 they have not derived from thence more benefit to the 

 world, or to themselves, from its natural productions. 

 But they are satisfied with what the bowels of the earth 

 afford, and they neglect its more accessible, though per- 

 haps not less valuable, treasures. The jealousy and in- 

 numerable restrictions of their Government render what 

 they possess as useless to all the world as to themselves. 

 A genius of the first rank in natural science, as well as in 

 every thing which his capacious mind embraced, has 

 arisen in Portugal, and has been domesticated in the 

 schools of Paris and London, the amiable and learned 

 Correa de Serra, now a traveller in the United States of 

 America. What little impulse has been given to litera- 

 ture in Portugal, and particularly the foundation of a 

 Royal Academy of Sciences, is owing to him ; and though 

 his name has chiefly appeared in the ranks of botanical 

 science in an incidental manner, no one possesses more 



