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on the trunks of the great trees. Epidendrum nutans 

 was also in flower, and very abundant. 



A small garden, in which English vegetables were 

 cultivated, was interesting, and its owner w^as not a 

 little proud to show it. Cabbages, carrots, parsley, 

 thyme, and sage, were healthy and thriving ; and an 

 apple tree displayed a blossom or two. It is curious 

 that our common Plantain {Plantago major) is as 

 abundant by the way sides, and in the clearings, on 

 these mountain-summits as it is in our meadows at 

 home. It has doubtless been accidentally introduced, 

 and its seeds dispersed by birds. The negroes call it 

 English Plantain, to distinguish it from the stately 

 Musaceous plant that bears the same name. In like 

 manner Water-cress, apparently identical with ours, 

 grows abundantly in Bluefields rivulet, and forms an 

 agreeable salad all the year round. 



Near Inverary there is a deep gully, or narrow 

 rocky glen, between almost perpendicular rocks. The 

 bushes and trees that shoot out of the clefts, and the 

 profusion of long lianes and climbing plants that 

 sprawl over the surface of the precipices, make it very 

 interesting. I endeavoured to go through it ; but 

 after advancing some distance, was compelled to re- 

 trace my steps, on account of the excessive difficulty 

 presented by the enormous masses of rugged stone 

 heaped one on another along the bottom in the most 

 Cyclopean confusion, as if thrown there by an 

 earthquake. 



