_ Coetion are: administered in what. are termed int 
in extrava sations of blood, boils, &c. ~ThoughI pm 
‘er its astringent property, I would goes eo to more 
— and efficient <a gee 
cuiiaadaeler ame * + * silt 
Pye from Dr. ip to M Pir dated Callao Roads, tr 
is 1832, 
“The revolution, which: ‘odeurred 3 in:Chile in 5 disor 1829, ities 
publication of the ‘ Meitarie Chileno: At 
ao ee = Ceii s 1 contained f a po- 
: -Rinakeause iekich w were aca offensive to one of the parties of the 
day, and soon after the present administration assumed the direction 
“of public affairs, the Editors were forced to leave the country. About 
athe same time, Dr. Bertero, the industrious and able author of the 
list’, embarked, at Valparaiso, for the Sandwich Islands, to pursue 
his botanical researches there, until he might resume without fear of 
3 and complete the catalogue of plants which he had com- 
-menced.- ~ While at_ the ——— he-collected a large herbarium, and 
- J | es iS ¥ Ops! 
Se a RS Re Pint pete oes Ce oe. hee Li. ae 
neara 
be ag country ‘aesdgihe its natural history. Professor Gal cid 
 ig-still there, has been for some time travelling in. different provinces, 
-@ollecting plants and specimens in natural history, and although the re- 
sult of his labors has not yet been published, a few letters which 
have appeared in ‘ E] Araucano’—a gazette of Chile—prove that he 
‘has not been idle. These letters are dated at San Fernando, and 
are addressed to Don José Alejo Bezanilla, Don Francisco Huido- 
bro and Don Vicente Bustillos, members of a scientific ec mmissiot 
ago. Soe Slegenan 
wn the fist letter he gives a detailed aecdails sof a Saietasthe lake 
ua. He says that he saw there for the first time, a curi- 
Ps natural phenomenon celebrated by the old Scotish bards—the 
-island. Almost half of the lake is covered by these islands 
which float from north to south, and from east to west, according to 
the: direction of the wind. They consist of vegetable: remains of 
a of plants——Convolvuli, Potamogeton, Ranuneuli, 
Gramineae, &c jsinverlated with each bthees ina stetopbemaalll 
