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yellnw soU, whidi generally lies uader- 

 malh (lie tmf, ami which tends to make 

 the land firmer, and more congenial to 

 the growth of grass-seeds than liirt' soil, 

 and also getting a much more level 

 surface. As I attach much importance 

 to the land being made very level on the 

 surface, previiuns (o the grass seeils be- 

 ing si)\Tn, I was iiidnccd to have the 

 ■wliole of this land levelled by persons 

 at day-wages, as I hardly knew what it 

 deserved liy picce-wtirk ; and, if I had 

 let it by the acre, I feared it niiglit not 

 liave been done to my satisfaction. I 

 have laid a much greater quantity of 

 lime, and sown a greater (pianlity of 

 grass-seeds on this land, than I ever 

 before saw practised; and though the 

 expense has been very great, I have no 

 doubt, from the present appearance of 

 the land, the seeds being in a flourishing 

 slate, but it will answer a prohtahle 

 purpose, my opinion being, that the 

 land will, in two years, fatten any 

 sort of caltle, and be worth, lo rent, 

 from twenty-tive shillings lo thirty shil- 

 lings an acre; and in its unimproved 

 state it was not, on an average, worth 

 inore than three sliillings an acre. 



Paid to sundry persons, for X s. d. 

 graving with spades, /or/y acres 

 two ruods of land, at from '■21. 2s. 

 to 2/. .is. /)er acre . . . 93 S 



Paid to sinidry persons for 

 days' works, for levelling the 

 land with sharp spades, after it 

 ■was graven, at from 2s. to 3s. 

 lier day . . . 66 13 1 



Paid for building a limekiln 

 on the land . . .800 



Paid fur loOi bushels of hay- 

 seeds, grown in the nciglibour- 

 liood, .■-own on the graven land, 

 at from 9(1. to 11(/. per bushel 61 6 7 



Paid for 236 pounds of while 

 Dutch clover-seed, sown on 

 ditto . . . . 12 2 



Paid Joseph Tomlinson, for 

 cutting, v^alling, and fillinjr, 

 678 rods of stone drains, at 

 Is. Id. per rod, of seven yards St 6 2 



Paid ditto for cuttin;;, wall- 

 ing, and tillini:, 300 rods of 

 ditto, at ].■(. ."(7. prr rod . . 18 15 



Paid William Lambert, for 

 .7,899 loads of lime (each load 

 being three bushels) laid on the 

 graven land, at 7| /)c>- load . 246 6 10 



Paid for leading the lime 

 from tlie kiln . . . 31 4 li 



1-aid for spreading the lime 

 on the land . , .8170 



[Aprit r. 



^577 11 7 



INSTITUTE OF FRANCE. 



Some account of a Vni/ag-e m the Indian 

 and Asiatic Seas, in the Vessels La 

 Durance and Le Rhone, (a Gabare- 

 and a Flute), under M. Philibert, 

 Captain and Commander. 

 This expedition sailed from Roche- 

 fort on the 1st of January, 1819, and 

 arrived at Cayenne on the 1st of Fe- 

 bruary. From Cayeime they proceeded 

 to Praya, thence to the Isle of Bsnrboii 

 and tlie western coasts of New Holland, 

 afterwards to the Streight of Alias and 

 to Sourabaja. Leaving Sourabay.t 

 tliey sailed uj) and down the Streight 

 of Macassar; then coasted the north- 

 west part of the island of Celebes, 

 entered tlie Streight of Basselan, and 

 ancliored at Sa>i:bouangan. After 

 coasting the western part of Mindanao, 

 Negros, and Panay, they passed between 

 Mindoro and 'I'ahlas, then into tho 

 Streight of RLiricaban, or between the 

 islands of Mindoro and Lu^on ; and 

 arrived at Cavite on the 2Ist of 

 Deoendjer. 



On tlie 14tli of March, 1820, depart- 

 ing from the port of Cavite, after 

 reconnoitering and collecting informa- 

 lioii respecting Pulo-Domar, Sainte 

 Barhe, and Gaspar, they passed the 

 Streigiits of Sunda, and arrived at 

 Bourbon. 



After some stay at this colony, the 

 Rhone was dispalched for Cayenne, and 

 the Durance returned directly lo I'rance. 

 In tiiiseircuitons vo\ago, the division, 

 well supplied with good chronometers, 

 bad o|)portuniiies of making a number 

 of important observations in hydro- 

 graphy and geography. The north- 

 west Cape of New Holland was found 

 to be wrong placed in many modern 

 maps; its position they fixed in a satis- 

 factory m:uiner. A plan was drawn up 

 of the Streight of Alias, snliiciently ac- 

 curate for the purjjoses of navigation, 

 by night or day. In (he Streight of 

 Macassar, the most diflicult parts of if, 

 next the coast of Borneo, were minutely 

 surveyed. A plan was taken of the 

 Streight of Basselan ; the Streight of 

 jMarieaban was surveyed, as also the 

 passage to the east of iMindoio. With 

 this passage the I'rench navigators arc 

 but little acquainted ; and they may now 

 reach tlie coast of China, even with an 

 nnfaviiurable monsoon. 



The voyage has been attended with 

 advantageous results to botany and 

 agriculture. Vanilla has been intro- 

 duced into the Isle of Bourbon and 



into 



