a PaErORD: Notes ‘OF A NATURALIST AFLOAT—V 
Le coast line, suggesting the shore of the Bay of Naples, and 
_ its voleanic hills with their slopes covered with verdure, 
. principally with patches of apple-green sugar cane. 
With our glasses we could make out a number of Spanish- 
looking buildings, with verandas and archways, sur- 
moun’ ed here and there by plumy crests of palm trees; 
but on going ashore we were disappointed in the town. 
Most of the old : masonry foundations bore flimsy wooden 
truct ures, many of them comparatively new and 
the blebs a our visit and to my official 
d coe it was not possible for me to do any 
ee oe ational Museum.! With its aid 
able to determine the botanical names of many — 
plants and frui I 
