154 Miscellaneous Intelligence. " 
himself by a careful analysis of various hurricanes, he published his vale 
uable work entitled “ An attempt to Develope the Law of re | 
and of the Variable Winds, with the practical application of the subjet 
to Navigation.” , By these labors, with those of Redfield, Piddington and 
found agriculture far behind; corn and hay were imported; there wi 
but little fruit; bitter citron. trees grew everywhere; and in sight. te 
government house was a wide swamp. Col. Reid set the example 
improvement. He grafted a sweet orange on a bitter citron ni in fost 
gra 
of the government house; it bore good fruit, and soon all the bie 
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emberett 
Bermuda. In one of the volumes of Dickens’ Houseword Words, the 
forth. : 
Tn 1846 he was transferred to the Windward West India alent 
prising Barbadoes, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Tobago and be 
erously declined remuneration—he received the Order of - a it _ 
from the Queen, and in September, 1851, he received e unsought 
lent of Governor of Malta—no idle appointment, for Pre", 4, 
Russian struggle were even then flashing in the eastern sky, a o 
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