OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 



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consisting muinly of spruces. Prolonged Southward in some slight 

 traces upon the summits of the AUeghanies. 



28. The Mountain Region of the Alleghanies. Commencing 

 after some traces in Pennsylvania on the head-waters of the Potomac, 

 and extending Southward so as to include the Alleghany ridges to 

 their termination. 



III. The Wintry Regions of the Southern Hemisphere. 



In all, nineteen widely-scattered botanical regions. Colored green 

 in the accompanying map. 



29. The lofty Mountain Summits in "Western Equatorial Africa. 

 A little north of the Equator, and commencing upon the outlying 

 Island of Fernando Po. 



30. The Summit of Kilmungaeo Mountain in Eastern Equatorial 

 Africa. Situated a little South of the Equator, and sometimes visi- 

 ble from the Island of Zanzibar. 



31. The lofty Mountain Summit in the Comoro Islands. Suffi- 

 ciently elevated to be " sometimes seen ninety miles at sea." 



32. The lofty Mountain Summits in the Islands of Bourbon and 

 Mauritius. 



33. The most elevated Mountain Summits in Austral Africa. 



34. The OCEAN Islands of Tristan D'Acunha. Situated in the 

 South Atlantic, at some distance from the Southern extreme of Africa. 



35. The Prince Edward Islands and the Crozet Islands. A few 

 widely scattered islets in tlie Southern portion of the Indian Ocean. 



36. The Region of Kerguelen s or Desolation Island. Described 

 as having a dreary and ahnost Antarctic climate. 



37. The TWO ocean Islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam. Situ- 

 ated a little farther North in the Indian Ocean; but described as 

 destitute of large trees. 



38. The Region of Macquarie's Island, and of other ocean 

 Islands to the Southward of Australia and New Zealand. 



39. The lofty Mountain Summits in New Zealand. 



40. The lofty Mountain Summit in Taheiti. 



41. The Peruvian Paramera, or the cold pastoral Region of 

 the Peruvian Andes. Above the limit of cultivation, and between 

 the elevation of ten thousand feet and that of fourteen thousand feet. 



