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for theEaft and Weft ends, and the North, North-eaft, and North- 

 weft fides, are almoft as diflimilar, in the afped of the country, 

 the weather, the plants, birds, and infedls, as if they belonged to 

 as many differently fituated iflands. There are, neverthelefs, fe- 

 veral to be met with in thefe mountains of the fame fpecies as in 

 other parts. The ring-tailed pigeons frequent them in great num- 

 bers : they are feen conftantly on the wing, and generally darting 

 along the fogs, which it is imagined they involve themfelves in, 

 the better to conceal their flight. There are found, befides, a fmall 

 martin, the whole upper parts of whofe plumage are of a glolly, 

 golden green, the inferior parts white ; fwifts, whofe upper plu- 

 mage is black, except a ring of white encircling the neck, and the 

 parts below entirely white; blue-finches; dark-brown thrufhes ; 

 wood-peckers of various kinds ; black-birds of the merops fpecies; 

 blue-fparrows ; long and fliort-tailed humming-birds ; blue and 

 red-throat bull-finches ; black and orange- coloured bull-finches, 

 and brown petrils : the latter are faid to be very numerous on the 

 higher parts of the Blue Mountains, where they breed in holes 

 made in the earth. In the rivulets are found a fqualid, yellow 

 fucking-fifli, and the large common and hog-nofed frefh-water 

 mullets. Of the quadruped reptile clafs, are the common grey 

 lizard, a fmall tree-frog, a fmall galli-wafp, and rats in abundance. 

 Of the infe£l tribe, here are a fpecies of crickets, which chirp like 

 birds on the approach of the evening-dufk ; a great variety of pa- 

 pilios and curculios, fome of the latter green and gold, others grey ; 

 a large, black and yellow-ftriped humble-bee ; a fly of the can- 

 tharides kind ; red and flinging ants ; wafps ; a beautiful, long 

 forked tail butterfly, of a copperifli and green hue. Of plants are 

 obferved a prodigious variety of ferns, and a ftill greater of moflfes; 

 black and bill-berry buflies in abundance, large and flourifliing; 

 the wild-forrel ; wild garden- mint, or mentha vulgaris ; and feveral 

 aromatic herbs and flirubs. The juniper-cedar, agnus Scyihlcus, and 

 a yellow timber-tree, called here Mulatto-wood, are likewife very 

 common, except the firft-mentioned ; it had a much ftronger fcent, 

 and the wood of it was of a deeper red than the kind generally 

 met with. The wild-forrel is as common as in England ; and the 

 garden- mint grows in wide-fpreading tufts along the fide of the 



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