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at the canoe ; but I was given to understand that they expected 

 to have the laugh against me in descending or shooting the falls, 

 for which process the main fall is always chosen, as there is less 

 danger of sunken rocks : and I candidly own that, although my 

 face showed tlie utmost composure to the Indians, I certainly 

 thought, when shooting the falls of Tekie, that I stood a good 

 chance of losing the produce of my labours, and perhaps my 

 life, as I can only swim, like a stone, to the bottom. At the 

 falls of Tekie the river falls about 6 ft., nearly perpendicular; 

 and, the channel being narrow, the rapidity and rush of the 

 water is very great. About 40 ft. below the fall the river makes 

 a sudden curve, occasioned by a line of pointed rocks stretching 

 out from the shore; and, as the canoe, impelled by the force of 

 the current, and the united exertions of the Indians, who are 

 obliged to paddle hard to keep steering on the canoe, dashes 

 like lightning down the fall, it appears that it must be inevitably 

 dashed on the rocks, which are immediately under its bows : but 

 a single turn of the steersman's paddle causes the light obedient 

 canoe to swing round broadside to the rocks; and a strong 

 sweep of the paddle takes it far out of danger. But think not 

 that we escaped altogether free; for, in coming round in the 

 boiling surf, a wave struck the side of the canoe, and filled her 

 half full of water, though, fortunately for me, the water, being 

 fresh, did not much injure my plants. On the morning of the 

 30th, I reached Ampa again in safety ; and, although, during 

 that time, I had lived upon fresh fish, without salt (the Indians 

 having left behind the salt I had procured in Georgetown), and a 

 little bitter cassava bread, with pure water to wash it down, I 

 never enjoyed myself more in my lifetime, and was only sorry 

 that circumstances prevented my following the course of this 

 beautiful river to its source. 



I may add that, although many of the smaller and very in- 

 teresting species could not sustain the voyage, yet Mr. Low has 

 succeeded in preserving the majority of the species of Orchidese 

 collected in this expedition ; and they are now in a thriving 

 condition. 



Clapton Nursety, Jan. 20. 1835. 



Art. II. A Series of Designs Jbr laying out Kitchen-Gardens. By 

 Mr. T. RuTGER. Design 9., Containing Four Acres xvithin the 

 Walls, and Five Acres in the Slips ; -with a System of Cropping 

 indicated. 



When I completed No. 8. of the series of plans for kitchen- 

 gardens, I thought I had finished my work upon that subject; 

 but, upon your suggestion that it would be desirable to have the] 



