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and carry home such trash ; and inquired, whether we had no plants in 

 our own countries, or converted those, which we gathered, into nnedicines. 

 From the account given of this stranger, I hoped that it might be Mr. 

 Sello, who is not unknown to the public as a Botanist ; or Mr. Friesrice, 

 another traveller, who has already sent numerous specimens of Natural 

 History to the University of Upsal. I afterwards found that this Gen- 

 tleman was a Dane, and connected with neither of them. He had with 

 him fourteen mules completely laden, whose burdens, I hope, have 

 arrived safe at Copenhagen. 



On the morning, when we left Sua-sui, a remarkably clear atmosphere 

 enabled us to discern very distant objects. The Ita-Columi bore North- 

 East by North, and towards the South- West, the Mountains trended 

 away, and afforded an extensive view. We were evidently travelling 

 at the heads of streams, and crossed a few rills, falling towards the North 

 and North-East ; but the broadest basin was to the South and South- 

 West. Some of the farm-houses in our route, bore the appearance of 

 wealth and comfort ; at one of them we sought refreshment, which was 

 hospitably communicated by its mistress. 



My Guide, I overheard, representing me in a light, which to her 

 could not fail to appear ridiculous, as one, who had crossed the seas, spent 

 his money, and submitted to fatigue and privations, for no other purpose, 

 which he could discover, but to gaze at the Mountains of Brazil, to walk 

 about the towns, and shoot birds. He added, as the crowning evidence 

 of something bordering upon mental aberration, that I had been at Villa 

 Rica and had brought away neither Gold^Dust nor Jewels. 



At Olho das Agoas, a village exhibiting a small Church in an ele- 

 vated position, is a much larger Gamelleiro, or wild fig-tree, than that 

 growing at Pampulia, already described; but this, T suspect, is not 

 properly oiie tree ; if it were, it would be a most wonderful production 

 of nature. 



In the course of the day, we noticed the frequent occurrence of 

 quartz, and that granite broke out in a few low spots. We observed, 

 too, that the streams were clear, and considered it as a proof that they 



