4 nest which they placed on a projecting wall, but 
the six eggs of the size of a demi-billiard, being plac- 
ed under a common hen, because the mother did not 
seem assiduous in covering her charge, —failed under 
that foster parent. The Brazilian jabiru is a mon- 
ster worth seeing. He has the size of a pony, and 
the appetite of six pelicans: but he is an awful bur- 
then of a pet. I have seen him introduced here, 
standing at a kitchen door like a sentry,—but watch- 
ful there, only to bolt every thing the cook should 
* Jeave within his reach. Useful birds might however 
be brought with facility into the island, now that in- 
tercourse by therailroad of the Isthmus makes a short 
shake-hand of the Pacific and the Atlantic. We 
might get the cereopsis of new Holland goose from 
Australia, and the bernicla sandviciensis or little 
- diminutive goose of Hawaii. Both have been suc 
cessfully bred in England. 
In the old maps of what now forms the harbour 
of Kingston, Port Royal, anciently known as Port 
Cagua,* was one of a system of islands which the 
Spaniards united by a line of intervening stockades, 
Against these the currents and the winds heaped 
sand, and formed the continuous spit of land known 
as the palisades. One may stand facing the breeze, 
‘that is, the constant ocean wind, that blows here 
almost daily with refreshing force, and see how the 
sand shifted before it, swells into hillocks, or gradu 
ates intodunes. The elevation of the windward side 

* The Indian name, written in the oldjournals Cagway. 
