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markable for its filvery leaves, and its flowers of 

 a bright red. 



I alfo faw feveral new fpecies belonging to 

 the family of the thymel<z<, which have only two 

 itamina, and of which Forfter has made a new 

 genus, under the denomination of bankfia. Here 

 I likewife remarked fome new fpecies of rumex, 

 lobelia, and buplevrum. 



The weft part of this iflot exhibits, in one of 

 the moft elevated points, a furface of calcareous 

 ftone, the ftrata of which follow the gentle de- 

 clivity of the mountain. Strata of the fame 

 fione no doubt formerly covered the other parts 

 of the ifland, and the nucleus of granite ferved as 

 their bafe; but probably they have fallen in, and 

 have uncovered the fteep places ; for to the 

 north-eafT, where the mountains fink with a rather 

 gentle flope, there are ft ill to be found fome 

 calcareous flones at a fmall diftance from the 

 fhore. I was never able to difcover here any 

 (hells, notwithftanding the rcfcarchcs 1 made 

 for that purpofe. 



From the fummit of this little ifland we dif- 

 tinguifhed, at a diltance, part of the reefs and 

 rocks on which our fhips had like to have been 

 dafhed to pieces, before we arrived at the anchor- 

 age. Their number frill frightened us, and we 

 wondered at having been able to efcape from fo 

 many dangers. 



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