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found who would purchase it with silver at any price. We there- 
fore resolved on making the most of our time by an early excursion 
in the morning, previous to setting out on our return. 
“We accordingly got up at day break, and proceeded to visit the 
spot where the plants were cultivated. We were much struck with 
the variety of the appearance of the plants: some of the sh 
‘scarcely rose to the height of a cubit above the ground, and those 
were so very bushy that the hand could not be thrust between the 
branches. ‘They were also very thickly covered with leaves, but 
these were very small, scarcely above ? of an inch long. In the 
same bed were other plants, with stems four feet high, far less 
branchy, and with leaves 14 to 2 inches in length. The pro- 
duce of great and small was said to be equal. The distance from 
centre to centre of the plants was about 44 feet, and the plants 
seemed to average about two feet in diameter. Though the ground 
was not terraced, it was formed into beds that were partly levelled. 
These were perfectly well dressed, as in garden cultivation, and 
each little plantation was surrounded by a low stone fence, and a 
trench. - There was no shade, but the places selected for the culti- 
vation were generally in the hollows of hills, where there was a good 
deal of shelter on two sides, and the slope comparatively easy. I 
should reckon the site of the highest plantations we visited to be 
about 700 feet above the plain, but those we saw at half that height, 
and even less, appeared more thriving, probably from having some- 
what better soil, though the best is little more than mere sand. I 
have taken specimens from three or four gardens. Contrary to what 
we had been told the preceding night, I found that each garden had 
its little nursery, where the plants were growing to the height of 
four or five inches, as closely set as they could stand; from which I 
conceive that the plant requires absolutely a free soil, not wet, and 
—_ clayey, but of a texture that will retain moisture ; and the best 
site 1s one not so low as that at which water is apt to spring from the 
sides of a hill, nor so high as to be exposed to the violence of stormy 
weather. There is no use in attempting to cultivate the plant on 
an easterly exposure, though it is sufficiently hardy to bear almost 
any degree of dry cold.” Ib. 
Norr.—Since the notes on p. 36 were printed, Dr, Kirtland has become satisfied 
from the anatomical structure of the animals, that the H. faliginosa and H. gla- 
phyra, are distinct species. 
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