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favourites; and of the latter, the wide-spreading 

 Genip and Tamarind, the tall Papavv, and the golden- 

 fruited members of the Citrus genus, from the 

 gigantic Shaddock to the diminutive Lime. 



BLUEFIELDSc 



A day or two sufficed to apprehend the beauties 

 of Savanna-le-Mar, and I was anxious, besides, to 

 commence my regular collecting. The ship's cutter 

 was put at my service, and manned to row me across 

 the Bay. Kind friends were waiting for me on the 

 beach, and the hospitable roof of Bluefields soon 

 received me, and became my home thenceforward as 

 long as I remained in the island, a period of eighteen 

 months. 



In the prosperous days of Jamaica, Bluefields 

 was a sugar estate; but is now, like many other 

 beautiful properties, given up, almost entirely, to 

 resume the original wildness of nature. The greater 

 partis, therefore, what is called ruinate, the expressive 

 term applied to land in such a neglected condition. 

 About a dozen acres are kept open in pasture, among 

 the grass of which grow many flowering weeds, 

 such as the Mexican Horn-poppy {Argemone), the 

 West Indian Vervain (Stacliytarplia), Svvallowworts 

 {AscUfiadce), small Fassiflorce, and others; and about 

 as much more is planted with the valuable, and 

 always verdant, Guinea-grass {Panicum jumentoriim), 

 among the tussocks of which may generally be seen 

 fluttering dozens of that pretty pink-winged moth, 

 Deiopeia bella. But all around is covered with a 



