33 & Botany, &c. 



were wrought here they would be very valuable, as the fi(h 

 and (hells would afford very lively and interefting obje£ts 

 upon "the polilhed furface. The Cobham marble is reckoned 

 of great value, from the reprefentation of ruins and land- 

 scapes which fometimes appear upon it ; but it would fall 

 far flioft,. in. my opinion, of the fingular and furprifing figures 

 with which thefe rocks abound." 



Two fmall blocks of this (tone are depofited at the Dub- 

 lin Society. . 



BOTANICAL EXPEDITION. 



The following is a lift of the objects of natural hiftory, 

 and other curiofities, brought home by Captain Baudin, com- 

 mander-in chief of the botanical expedition, in the flute 

 La Bi-lle AhgcHq-te-: — One hundred and ninety cafks, con- 

 taining about 3,500 living plants, aid in a ftate of vegeta- 

 tion'; four boxes of zoophites and lithophites; a box con- 

 taining the horns of quadrupeds, and other objects; a box 

 contT.sning vafes of porcelain, and other objects; a box of 

 paintings; a .box of bows and arrows, and other objects; two 

 boxes of madrepores ; two boxes of (luffed birds; two boxes 

 of fpecimens of wood; a box of quadrupeds and fifties in 

 fpirits; two boxes of infects and quadrupeds in fpirits; four 

 boxes of plants in fpirits ; a box of cruftaceous animals and 

 polypes ; four boxes of feeds ; four double boxes of infects* 

 three coflcs of fhells ; a cafk of melocadti in fpirits ; living 

 birds; three apes; a crab-eater (chien, crabier); eleven planks, 

 and one log of mahogany ; a box of tufcellaneous articles j 

 a cafk of minerals ; four boxes of petrifactions and eagle- 

 itones (^tode.) ; a box of bitumen, &c. 



