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most delightful, as I stood for a few minutes within 

 its fern-embowered shelter, and drank of the rivulet 

 of clear, cold water, that runs along its bottom. 



The approach to Montego Bay is striking and 

 beautiful : the high road is in some parts cut through 

 the marly soil to a considerable depth, leaving high 

 perpendicular banks on each side, crowned with 

 forest trees, and fringed and festooned with ferns 

 and flowering plants differing much from those of the 

 north side. Through the narrow avenue before us, 

 noble views of the coast, of the bay and town, and 

 of the sea beyond, are obtained. I even persuaded 

 myself, more than once, that I saw high land in the 

 horizon, which if real, could be none other than the 

 mountains of Cuba, though about ninety miles dis- 

 tant. But the power of observation was unhappily 

 almost quenched by a violent headache, brought on 

 doubtless by eight hours' exposure to a nearly vertical 

 sun, combined with the glare that was reflected from 

 the white chalky road. 



THE RINGTAIL PALLETTE-TIP. 



This brief visit to the north side made me ac- 

 quainted with a little Saurian of great beauty, the 

 Ringtail Pallette-tip {Sphceriodactylus Richardsonii). 

 Its ground colour is pale red ; the head is marked 

 with irregular bands and stripes of brilliant yellow, 

 and the body and tail are crossed by transverse broad 

 bands, those on the body reddish-lilac, becoming 

 brown on the tail ; and at length towards the ex- 



