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equal cleptli,"and with a hard bottom of sandy loam. 

 Mr. Robert Wilkie informs me that, in the month of 

 April last year, he was spending some few weeks at 

 Passage Fort for a change after a fever, and being 

 induced to vary his boat-excursions by a row within 

 these ponds, as the divisions are called, he was sur- 

 prised by finding a couple of Dolphins sporting 

 about them. The water being smooth and clear, 

 never rising to anything more than ripples, and the 

 ponds, though spacious, only filling the vision in any 

 direction in which you look upon them, the Dolphins 

 gambolling and rolling and tumbling from one end 

 to the other, were always in sight, and their entire 

 shape and magnitude visible in the water. Mr. Wilkie 

 represents them to have been seven or eight feet long ; 

 lead-coloured, long-snouted, and gracefully propor- 

 tioned. The fishermen said that they had been then 

 occasionally visiting, in and out, for some time. The 

 waters teemed with Mullets and Callepivas, Snooks 

 and Snappers. It was just then a mullet-season. The 

 fishermen represented the Dolphins as making their 

 visits on a particular day in the week. I fancy they 

 mistook their own ' particular-day -in- the- week ' visit, 

 on which occasion they found them already there, 

 — for the Dolphins'. Mr. Wilkie repeated his ex- 

 cursion twice or thrice, and always saw the Dolphins. 

 On the last occasion he made an effort to shoot them, 

 but, though he had several shots, he did not succeed 

 in their capture." 



" December, 1848. When I was in the last week 

 of my late sojourn at Ray's-town, that upper part 

 of Kingston Harbour was regularly, for some sue- 



