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insects, and, what had hitherto never been 

 brought to Europe, geological specimens 

 from the Chimborazo, New Grenada, and 

 the banks of the river of the Amazons. 



After thejourney to the Oroonoko, we left 

 a part of these objects at the island of 

 Cuba, in order to take them on our return 

 from Peru to Mexico. The rest followed 

 us during the space of five years, on the 

 chain of the Andes, across New Spain, 

 from the shores of the Pacific Ocean to the 

 West Indian seas. The conveyance of these 

 objects, and the minute care they required, 

 occasioned us such embarrassments as would 

 scarcely be conceived, by those even who 



gara lentiscifolia, heliotropium chenopodioides, con- 

 volvulus bogotensis, c. arborescens, ipomoea longi- 

 flora, solarium Humboldti, WilkL, dichondra argentea, 

 pitcairnia, furfuracea, cassia pendula, c. mollissima, 

 c. prostrata, c. cuspidata, euphorbia Humboldti, 

 Willd., ruellia foetida, sisyrinchiuin tenuifolium, sida 

 cornuta, s, triangularis, phaseolus heterophyllus, 

 glycme precatoria, g. sagittata, palea bicolor, pso- 

 ralea divaricata, myrica mexicana, atriplex linifolia, 

 inga microphylla, acacia diptera, a. rlexuosa, a. 

 patula, a. brachyacantha, a. ciliata, a, acicularis, a. 

 peruviana, a. edulis, and several varieties of geor- 

 gines. (See Willdenow Enum. plant, horU Berol. 

 180Q.) 



