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one more to the list of serious charges against him. This animal, 
imported in 1872 to rid the cane-fields of rats, has exceeded his 
authority and cleaned out all the snakes and many of the small 
birds of Jamaica, thereby increasing the number of ticks and 
other insects. 
On Tuesday, January 5, Mrs. Murrill, Miss Harris and | 
rode to Monkey Hill, arriving at the end of the horseback trail 
at 10 o'clock, where I took the guide and walked to the top of 
Fie. 5. Characteristic negro hut, Jamaica. 
Sir John Peak, at 6,100 feet elevation, by 11 A. M., lunching 
on the summit. The trail cut for Dr. Shreve is still open, but 
ugh and weedy; the platform of poles used by him in his 
experiments is rapidly falling to decay; but the conspicuow: 
clumps of a splendid species of grass discovered by him on the 
summit will forever associate his name with this peak. 4 
a (Vaccinium) and Clethra Alevandyri, the latter reminding 
e our mountain-ash im habit, were the most conspicuots 
aes plants on the summit. The Clethra was covered with? 
