simply a 
| light in a congenial air, growi 
dinary “wer wee to eight ‘feet high, 
— was very t of 
island, where it was almost the only 
is eminentl ne shrub; its 
ves have a very salt taste ; peat it luxuri- 
ates in saline soils, where it is usually a cha- 
. It is widely diffused over all this 
Psat Ac 
species of oprone (O. rigida, 
rem.) was Spey characteristic of the 
| rts of the island. These two are 
jg co plants on — island, and belong 
_ toa alaes of plants orm 
very large si the 
shore, near the water, was a woolly species 
of phaca ; a new epecies “of emabeBuleneeb 
plant (leptotemia) was tered about in 
very considerable abu: laine These con- 
parca the vegetation that now appeared 
e accidentally Jeft-on the summit the brass 
cover to the object end ies aya spy-glass ; and 
as it will “sp age 
by Indians, it w 
ietvtoipense fotu re tra’ aes ur excur- 
sions setae the island, we did not pret with 
any k animal; a magpie, and another 
larger bird, probably a by the smoke 
of our a paid us a visit 
the only li 
evening, which place our 
in latitude 41° 10” 43", and oat Sotate | hors 
1122 ay 05'' from From a 
cussion of the 
clin 
Hah 
if Tn 
e felt from the dieaipas 
tion of our dream of the f fertile islands, I | growing on the lo 
island. 
CAPT. FREMONT’S NARRATIVE. 
ia energie s shrub, which | i 
ida, T 
other 
| OnE (O. confertifolia— Torr. § 
heavily on the shore, making our island 
tremble. I had not expected in ma inland 
ocean ; 
of the place, made this one of the most in- 
pitt a I remember during our — 
expeditio 
- | men, and Teluctantly g gave up my intention of 
bed. There wasa : general shout in the boat 
when we found ourselves in one fatho! — and 
we soon after landed on a oe point of 
immediately u butie peninesls, 
he 
the ~— which was 
; Basilaccom oo hit to to bring back 
horses for the boat and 
he rude-l 
eee 
ee with inte 
