150 J.] Travels lehueetithe Tropic Sy hy Meff. Humhoidt l^ Bonphnd. 15 



fide, liarlcd through the tranfiiar.nt wa- 

 ters like dreams of lightning ; lome even 

 fprang above the furt ice into the air ; but 

 all quickly returned to the charge, lur- 

 rounding the pyramids as before on the 

 retreat of the craw-ii(h. In this manner 

 the war I'eemed to be continual." 



The above craw-filh is not a Linnean 

 fpecies. Mr. Bartram calls its enemy a 

 g-old-fifli. It is not, howtver, the Chine(e 

 fi-(h generally known by this name, the 

 Cjprinus Auratus of Linnaeus. 



THE CALF. HE. 



Medufa Jnfiuidihulum of L'lnnaus ? 



This i'pecies of mtduia is called Galere 

 by the natives of fomc parts of the wcd- 

 ern coait of Africa. M. Adanfon lav 

 great quantities of it in the river Niger. — 

 He fays, that nothing can bear a nearer 

 refemhjance to a bhdder witli air, and 

 painted a beautiful red, than the body of 

 the galere. It has a funge upon i.s back, 

 and eight arms under the belly, that dc- 

 fcend, and ferve it as it were to ballaft the 

 body, which floats along through the 

 water, and is tofied to and \\o by the 

 winds and waves. This medufa is cauf- 

 t»c to fuch a degree, that, wl-.en it is 

 touched, a pain is immediately felt as if 

 the hand were burnt. M. Adanfon took 

 one into his hand, by way of trial, and 

 held it till he began to feel its cffe^. — 

 This appeared externally hy a little de- 

 gne of rednefs, attended by a kind of 

 pricking, and an inflammation which con- 

 tinued for lour houis afttiwards. By a 

 very flight contaft of the inflamed hand 

 the pain was communicated to all the 

 tender parts of the body, as the face and 

 neck, but more efpeciilly to the eye- 

 browa. — Adanjon's Voyage to Senegal and 

 Coree. 



For tie Monthly Magazine. 

 ACCOUNT of the TRAVELS befvoeeti the 



TKOPlCS of MESSRS. HUMBOLDT and 



bonpland, in 1799, 1800, 1801, 

 1802, 1803, and 1804. By j. C. de- 

 Lamltherie. 

 (Continuedfrom p. 558. No. 130.) 



M HUMBOLDT let out from iiata- 

 . banc in March, iSoi, coading 

 along the South fide of the ifljnd of Cuba, 

 and determining alironomically feveral 

 points in that group of fmall ifles called 

 the King's Gardens, and tlie approaches 

 to (lie p. rt of Trinidad. A navigation 

 which ought to have lieen only thirteen or 

 fifteen days, was pr^ longed by currents 

 bryond a month. The galiiot w.is car- 

 ried by ihrm too far ealt, beyond the 

 moutlik of (Ite Atraflo. Tney touched at 



Rio Sinu, where no b taniff had ever 

 fearched for plants; but they found it dif- 

 ficult to land at Corihajcni, on account 

 of the violence of the breakers of St. Mar- 

 tha. The galliot had almoft gone 10 

 pieces near Giant's Point: they were 

 obliged to fave themfelves towards the 

 (hore in order to anchor; and this difap- 

 pointment gave M. Humboidt an oppor- 

 tunity of oblrrving the eclipicof the moon 

 on the »d of March, 1801. Uifortiiraiely 

 they learned on this coaif that the feafoa 

 for navigating the South Sea, from Pana- 

 ma to Guyaquil, was already too far ad- 

 vanced : it was receflai-y to give op the de- 

 fign cf crofTiDg the ifthmus; and the de- 

 hie of feeing the celebrated Mutis, and ex- 

 amining his immenfe treafurts in natural 

 liiftory, induced M. Humboldt to fpeud 

 fome weeks in the forcfts of Turbaco, or- 

 namented wiih gufla-uia, toluifera, ana- 

 cardium cnraco'u, and the Ca--uamllifca of 

 the Peruvian bota'tiifts ; and to afcend in 

 thirty-five days the beautiful and majeftjc 

 rivcr of the Magdalen, of which he fketch- 

 ed out a chart, though tormented by the 

 mofquitoes, while Bonpland fludicd the 

 vegetation, rich in heiiconia, plycboftria, 

 melajloma, tnyrodia, ar.d dychotria emttica, 

 the root of which is the ipecacuanha of 

 Carthagena. 



Having landed at Honda, our travellers 

 proceeded on mules, the only way of travel- 

 ling in South America, and by frightful 

 reads thrcugh fortffs of osks, 7ndafioma 

 and cinchona, to Santa Fc de Bago;a, the 

 capital of the kingdom of New Grenad.-t, 

 lituated in a beautiful plain 1560 toifes 

 above the level of the fea, and, in confe- 

 quence of a perpetual fprlng temperature, 

 •abounding in the wi-.eat of Europe and the 

 felamum of Alia. Thefuiierb c:.lleflions 

 of Mutis 5 the grand and fubVime cataraft 

 of Tcquendama, 98 toifes or 588 feet in 

 height; the mintsof Mariquita, St. Ana, 

 and Zipaguira ; the natural bridge of 

 Icononzo, two detached rocks which by 

 means of an earthquake hive been difpofcd 

 in fuch a manner as to fuppoit a third ; 

 occupied the attention of our tiavellers at 

 ■Santa Fe till September i3oi. 



Though the rainy fVaton had now ren- 

 dered the roads almolt iinpaffable, they fet 

 out for Qnito; they re-ilefcended by Fu- 

 I'agafuga, in the valley of Magdalena, and 

 palled the Andes of Quindiu, where the 

 Inowy pyramid of Tolins rifes amidft 

 (orefts oijlirax pa/jijlcra in trees, bam- 

 hufa, and wax palms. For thirteen dajs 

 they were obliged to <h-ag theinfelvci 

 thrcugh horrid mud, and to flixp, as Qn 

 the Orenoko, undsr the bate heavens, in 

 woodn 



