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collected among the rocks were not numerous, consisting of 
patella, buccina, turbo, trochi, and dead shells of cones. Two 
species of sea egg (echinus ) were also found on the rocks, 
The insects seen (besides the common fly of a small size, 
and neither numerous nor troublesome,) were several kinds 
of grasshoppers (grylli ), three or four species of coleopterous 
insects, among which was a small beetle (Scarabeus ), and 
some moths and butterflies. The only reptile seen was the 
common stone lizard. 
Porto Praya has been so often visited by our navigators, 
that it may be supposed they have left little room for new 
nautical observations ; the directions for knowing the bay 
are indeed so minute and various, as to confuse rather than 
assist a stranger ; it seems however to have been forgotten, 
that one marked and prominent feature is a better guide 
than a number of trivial appearances, which may change 
with the position of the observer. 
It seems to me to be quite sufficient to inform the naviga- 
tor, that the $.E. point of the island is seen as a very long 
and very low point in coming from the north or south ; that 
to the west of this point, three or four miles, is a bay with a 
brown sandy beach, a building, and a grove of date (not 
cocoa-nut)* trees; that this first bay must not be mis- 
* This mistake is made in all the directions for Porto Praya that Ihave seen ; 
the trees are however sufliciently different in appearance, to render the cor- 
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rection proper. 
