GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



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going on shore, this vessel continued healthy until she 

 received on board the unfortunate people belonging to the 

 Congo. 



The foUowino; table exhibits the state of Fahrenheit's 

 thermometer, at three periods of the day, for one month, 

 from 20th July to 20th August, in ditferent parts of the 

 river, from the entrance to the Cataract, and of the water 

 of the river at noon. 



It is remarked in a meteorological journal, imperfectly 

 kept by Captain Tuckey, in proceeding up the river, that 

 from the mouth to Embomma, the temperature of the river 

 was almost invariably at 76°. 



The alimentary plants are very various, and for the most 

 valuable of them, the natives are indebted to the Portu- 

 guese. The staple products of the vegetable world consist 



