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Auo-ust 18. 



On islands near the shore I saw a Sulix 

 with leaves like the cultivated olive. It is 

 a shrub three feet high, but growing in a 

 spreading manner. Stemgrejjwith roundish 

 dusky solitary buds, of a very large size, in 

 proportion to the plant. Leaves gradually 

 larger (upwards?), oblong-lanceolate, blunt- 

 ish, on scarcely perceptible footstalks, fur- 

 nished with an obtuse lonaitudinal rib be- 

 neath, but no veins. Their upper surface 

 is green, sprinkled all over with minute 

 white dots ; very sliglitly channelled, and 

 paler, along the nerve. (This appears to 

 have been S. rosmarinifolia.) 



August 19. 



At the fair of Calix I obtained some in- 

 formation concerning the conrimerce of this 

 country, which is very different from that 

 of almost every place in the world besides, 

 insomuch that I am unable to determine 

 which party makes his market of the other. 



