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beaft. There is no doubt that thefe countries 

 will, on a future day, add fevcral fpecics to the 

 catalogue of the zoologill. A vertebra that we 

 found inland, the body of which was upwards 

 of eleven centimeters in thick nefs, induces me 

 to think, that fomc very large quadrupeds will 

 there be met with. 



A heavy fhowcr of rain overtook us about the 

 middle of the day, and forced us to flop. The 

 lar^e trunk of a hollow tree, which ferved us as 

 a fhelter, was upwards of eight meters in cir- 

 cumference. We thought that we might light a 

 fire in it, in the manner of the New Hollanders ; 

 but the fmoke foon drove us from this retreat. 



We tried to penetrate into the places which 

 we had not yet vifitcd. A glade fcemed likely 

 to conduct us to the plain that lay to the nortll- 

 caft. We had not at moll three hours daylight 

 left. A fudden declivity made us flacken our 

 : fomc large trees, heaped one upon the 

 other, obstructed the way ; and fhrubs, to which 

 the moifiure of thefc forcfts gave the greatest 

 vigour, incrcafed the difficulties of our progrefs* 

 Among thefc fhrubs grew a beautiful fpecics of 

 arboreous pofypodiiim, the trunk of which was 

 upwards of four meters in height *. 



* It may well be fuppofed, that I fliall not fatigue the 

 reader with a long nomenclature of the productions which 

 1 met with in this voyage ; that will be the objed of a fepa- 

 rate work. 



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