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of London and Edinburgh. The custom of noting 

 the commencement and the course of the disease, 

 the diagnosis, the medicines administered, and the 

 diet, on the table before each bed, is not very 

 strictly observed. Each of these establishments 

 has its own chapel and laboratory. The English 

 have also erected a marine liospital for their sea- 

 men, on a tongue of land on the east side of the 

 bay opposite the city, where they have the maga- 

 zines for their naval stores. This hospital is at- 

 tended by an English physician, under the au- 

 thority of the British consulate, and German sailors 

 are likewise admitted into it. 



Near the sea lies the public promenade ; it is a 

 small garden surrounded with walls, and protected 

 against the sea by a perpendicular quay of hewn 

 stone. Its shady avenues of mango, jaca, or the 

 East India bread-fruit tree, the yto, and the rose 

 apple tree *, between which the beautiful bushes 

 of the poinciana t are planted, are unquestionably 

 very inviting in the evening, when the heat is al- 

 layed by the sea-breezes. Eormerly, there was in 

 this garden a breed of cochineal insects on Indian 

 fig-trees, which were planted for that purpose along 

 the sea-shore ; but at present, the cultivation of 

 this article, which might be brought to be a very 



* Mangifera indica, Artocarpus integrifolia, Guarea trichili- 

 oides, and Eugenia Jambos, L. 

 f Caesalpina pulcherrima, L. 



