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Fig. 3. The petals expanded. f 

 Fig. 4. Stamina, the corolla and the calyx 

 having been removed. 

 Fig. 5. Germen. 

 Fig. 6. Legume. 



Very early in the morning the Efperance had 

 fent a boat to the main land to make To me aftro- 

 riomical obfervations. Citizen Riche had alfo 

 landed there. The rendezvous had been fixed 

 for two o'clock in the afternoon at the place of 

 debarkation ; but his fhipmatcs waited for him 

 in vain till feven o'clock in the evening. The 

 boat was then obliged to return on board, 

 becaufe the had no provifions in ; and, betides, 

 fhe was riding in a place which might have be- 

 ne very dangerous had the fea got up ever (o 

 little. The commanding officer left on the 

 fhore a written paper, to apprize Riche, that, 

 in cafe he came to this place, the boat Should 

 return to fetch him the next morning at day- 

 light, if the weather permitted. 



The geographical engineer, fent to make a 



furvey of this little Archipelago, reached his 



fhip in the early part of the night; he had de- 



'ic pofition of upwards of twenty iflots 



:ttered in a fpace of about a degree both in 



longitude and in latitude. He landed on fevcrai 



points, without finding a convenient place for 



2 watering ; 



