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tops of the hills above ; the last I have not yet visited. Ou a 

 former occasion I saw Sedum anglicum growing plentifully on the 

 other side of the valley, but on this, the breadth and force of the 

 stream totally prevented any attempt to cross. This day's journey 

 forcibly recalled to my memory the words of Curtis, when he 

 visited the neighbourhood of Settle nearly a century ago (in July 

 and August 1782). In one of his excursions thence he exclaimed, 

 " What a treat for a botanist ! What a recompense for one of the 

 roughest journeys over Cam perhaps ever experienced V 



Returning to Kendal in the afternoon, we proceeded in the 

 evening to the welcome abode of a near relative, within sight of 

 Humphrey Head ; but I have more than once before related in the 

 ' Phytologist' the results of my botanical rambling over this inter- 

 esting locality. On this occasion, June 12th, I found nothing addi- 

 tional of importance, except what I take to be Galium montanum, 

 described by my intelligent friend Mr. J. G. Baker, as found 

 near Settle. (See ' Phytologist,' New Series, vol. i. p. 182.) It 

 occurred in one place, on rocky ground, as I approached the 

 promontory. Near it, above in the wood, Taxus baccata and Pyrus 

 Aria presented abundantly their strongly contrasted foliage. 

 Cochlearia danica and Armer'ia maritima almost covered the 

 adjoining beach, with other plants formerly enumerated. Hype- 

 ricum Andros(Bmum was met with in the wood more copiously 

 than before, but not in flower ; whilst Helianthemum canum, on 

 the cliffs above, was in perfection. In the wood, on the opposite 

 (Lancaster) side of the mount, I collected what appears to be 

 Melampyrum sylvaticum, and a few other sylvestral plants. 



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Our obliging friend Mr. Kennedy has put into our publisher's 

 hands a letter from one of his correspondents, who is now in St. 

 Michael's (San Miguel), acting as the superintendent at a bota- 

 nical establishment in one of these islands. This gentleman 

 writes to his friend Kennedy as follows. After a remark about 

 the high price of necessaries in Ponta Delgada, the chief town, 

 ■which has no trade except in oranges,* he proceeds thus : 



* " Oranges are iaiported in boxes containing from 250 and more, and in chests 

 holding 500 to 1000. The quantity of fniit imported has been steadily increasing 



