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situation like this in which not a blade of anything 
grows, it is noticeable. It is the kindred crotalaria 
striata, common in mountain roads, that, retaining 
the rain-drops long after showers, aanoys the foot 
traveller so much as to have received the name of 
the water-bush. Is there anything peculiar in the 
leaves by which they resist the evaporating powers 
of sun-light, and thus become remarkable, the one 
for nursing its moisture to carry on vegetation in the 
burning desert, and the other, to pour out rain- 
drops where the climate is moist, and the vegetation 
riant and luscious ? 

A plan of Port Royal, published some sixty years 
azo, represents the present condition of the spit of 
land on which the town stands, relatively with what 
remained after the great earthquake of 1692. It 
shews what was then sunk, together with the since 
gathered accumulations on the south side, and what 
in some degree replaces the land lost upon the North. 
A white buoy floats in seven fathoms water at a 
considerable distance out, in what is the road-stead. 
‘This buoy marks the situation, of a sunken fort at the 
most northerly point inward, within what is speci- 
ally Port-royal Harbour. Along this, trending east- 
ward, the sounding line strikes on the ancient wharfs 
and fortifications. ‘The present star-shaped fortress, 
known as Fort Charles, which commanded a deep 
embayed hole called Chocolate Hole, in the midst of | 
the shock that engulphed houses and embattled walls 
and wharfs far away to the North of it, remained a 
detached Island. A central patch of land to the north 
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