CAPTAIN l UClvEY'S NARRATIVE. 2T 



lent in the Canaries; but at the height of about 1600 feet 

 I at length found the sides of the hills and small vallies co- 

 vered with large bushes of a Thymalea, resembling the pisca- 

 toria, but the identity diflicult to be established. A Sider- 

 oxylon, I was told, formed thickets on the highest mountains, 

 but 1 saw only one sterile plant resembling the Marmulana 

 of Madeira. 



" I have, in the following table,* divided the vegetation of 

 St. Jago into two regions only, and doubt if the plants of 

 the Pico de San Antonio difler suthciently to form a third. 

 I must however observe, that a two days excursion, in the 

 dry season, and in one of the least fertile parts of owe island 

 only, is by no means sufficient to estabhsh a phj'sical ar- 

 rangement of the Hora of the islands in general, where such 

 difference of localities exist as in the burning peak of Fogo, 

 and the wooded mountains of the island of San Antonio. 

 Indeed, from the little I had time to observe, I am convinced 

 that a botanist would have his labour well I'epaid should he 

 give a sufficient time to the examination of the vegetable 

 reign of these islands ; nor can I help being surprised that 

 no one has yet turned his attention towards them.'' 



With respect to the cultivated vegetables, Dr. Smith ob- 

 serves, " Cultivation is only seen in the glens or ravines, 

 * Inserted in Professor's Smith's Journal . 



