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of Dominica. From the first two trees in bearing 

 he gathered seven pounds of cloves ; he then had, 

 six years after commencing to plant, fifteen hundred 

 growing trees. Probably, even if this attempt was 

 successful, nothing farther was ever done by the other 

 planters, so wrapped up were they in cane culture, 

 and cane only. Montpelier is to-day gone to decay, 

 difficult of access, with fields of waste land, and with- 

 out inhabitants. A tradition only remains of clove 

 and cinnamon-trees being found in the wild growth 

 that covers the abandoned fields. 



A broad walk leads under the nutmeg-trees, from 

 a little stream beneath the teak and mahogany, to 

 Government House, the residence of the lieutenant- 

 governor, a long, low building, surrounded by a 

 veranda, having in front a flower-garden in perpetual 

 blossom, such a garden as only this climate is capable 

 of producing, with a row of lovely areca palms, and 

 vines in profusion adorning pillars and balustrades. 



We are constantly reminded of the East Indies and 

 the South Seas by the numerous trees brought from 

 those far-off regions. Not the least curious is the 

 screw-pine, growing to the height of a tree, and bear- 

 ing fruit that closely resembles the edible pine-apple. 



In the society of the governor, George Dundas, 

 Esquire, C. M. G., I enjoyed many delightful hours. 

 Like many another cultivated Englishman and Scotch- 

 man, he was a zealous votary of Daguerre an ex- 

 cellent amateur photographer. To wealthy English 

 amateurs, who have pursued the study of photography 

 as a pastime, that science owes its greatest advance- 

 ment, especially in recent times. In the "dry-plate" 

 process the process of the future they have made 



