CONTENTS. xvii 



about two Feet in the Year — sometimes grows more than three Feet. 

 Plantations of Fi^s at St. Helena more profitable than in Europe — 

 Compulation of their Value in twenty Years. Negligence and Inattention 

 to the planting Law much to be regretted — The fittest Trees for St. 

 Helena Plantations enumerated — Further Notices upon the Growth of 

 Trees — and upon the necessity of extirpating Goats, and tending 

 Sheep, - _ - - - page 191 



Section XXIX. — 3Ieans of collecting Water on the driest Parts of the 

 Island, and Observations on the Advantages resulting from this Practice, 



198 



Section XXX. — Further Observations on the Importance of planting Trees 

 at St. Helena, 201 



PART II. 



Narrative of the Mutiny, in December, \S\\, . - - 207 



Appendix. — An Alphabetical List of Plants, seen by Dr. Roxburgh growing 

 on the Island of St. Helena, in 1813-14, - - 295 



Appendix II. — Abstract of the Population and Cattle on the Island of St. 

 Helena from the year 1683 to 1812, extracted from the Records, 327 



Appendix III. — The largest Produce of Corn obtained at the Company's 

 Farwi^m 1814, - - . - 32^^ 



Appendix IV, — List of Seventy-six different Species of Fish at St. Helena, ^' 



ib. 



