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jile has inAncpd others to follow it I also requesteu 

 Mr Mridet when h re latp y in the Egltf, to st^nd me 

 Mr Fioris (.mnphlet, on th-- culture of the VHuilla and 

 he kindly (-eut me six coiiies which I have distributed 

 ain'»ii<rst the inhnhitants." 



Ill f i«t, tlie Seychelles look like a pprfectly n<^w coun- 

 try, n» Australia Wri< some years ago. It requires labour 

 to lejf nerate it. Nothing will ever h" obtained of any 

 Value from the present ind-dent population. Every ne» 

 ctbSctry of life is in abundance and their wants are few. 



Some notes have been read by Dr. Regnand on the 

 difffrent names under which another dependency of 

 Mauritius, the Island of Diego Garcia has been known 

 sin.e its discovery. These natnes, more or less disfi- 

 gured can bn traced buck during a period of three en- 

 turies ; son.etimes as Dofi Garcia, which Dr. Regnaud 

 beii yen to be the red nime. <»r as Diego Graciosa or 

 2)« Gratia Dius and severjil other besides. To what na- 

 vijja'or does it owe its present name ?exclai'i s Dr Re- 

 gnau'l, A-Jt i« wha» cannot be ascert'.ind ; and with 

 rtf-rence to the subject, he reminds us that with re- 

 gard tooarc>lony, the origin of the iiame of Cerni 

 has given ris>' to more than one c -ntrover^v I will 

 ad I, hays Dr R gnaud, that amongst the rliffc^rent ety- 

 tnnl gies whi h tiave b en supposed, one by .Mr Dave- 

 zac has been Ipfr. out; be s>ays : "Maybe th" same 

 fehnuld be said of Ocerue (the nam^- of a Portuguese fa- 

 mily w-^ll k'lown) over which the Dutch have given 

 the preference to the name of Mauritius." 



Mr de Clo ets has forwarded a specimen of iron ore 

 which he <;athered on the ou!»r surface of a bed which 

 extends over or nearly the whole of ihe district of 

 Grand Port. 



;It i* a vaiiety of Oliiii-it iron called by some compact 

 otide. the analysis which he made shewed 50 per c nt 

 iron. So i>er cent silica and 15 per cent alumina. 



In such ijropoitions, the bed afore in q 'e.-tion could 

 be w rked with good urnfitf', prodded there is a svj^' 

 citnt supply of fuel ; the experiments tiied by hira gave 



