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the mountains, on a hot sultry day, to view the cataract 

 of Yellala, which after a good night's rest, was entirely 

 removed. Lockhart the gardener was on his legs every 

 day, from morning till the evening, sometimes heavily 

 loaded with the plants he had collected ; yet he proceed- 

 ed to the farthest point, and returned to the ships, with- 

 out experiencing an hour's illness, and found the climate 

 the whole way remarkably pleasant. Being drenched 

 however with rain in the lower part of the river, he took 

 the fever, and was left in the hospital at Bahia, with the 

 Serjeant of marines, both of whom were so much reduced, 

 as to I ave little hope of the recovery of eitlier. Lockhart 

 however survived, and is now perfectly well in England; 

 but the sergeant died almost immediately after the sailing 

 of the Congo. 



Mr. Chetiek Smith, the son of a respectable land- 

 holder, ne 'r the town of Drammen in Norway, was born 

 in October 178.5. He was educated at the school of 

 Kongsberg, and finished his studies at the university of 

 Copenhagen; where, under Professor Hornemann, he ac- 

 quirctl a taste for botany, and particularly for that branch 

 of the science, of which his native mountains afforded such 

 ample resources, — the mosses and lichens. Though at an early 

 period of life, he had distinguished himself in the study of 

 medicine, and had the care of the sick in the great hospital 

 at Copenhagen, he could not resist the temptation of 

 accompanying his friends, Hornemann and Wormskiold on 

 a bot aiiical tour into the mountains of Norway. Iij the early 

 part of this tour, the war, which broke out in 1807 be- 

 tween Sweden and Denmark, recalled his companions, and 



