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mountains of Coromandel # , has been described 

 by Roxburgh : the third and fourth -f- grow in 

 the southern hemisphere, on the coasts of New 

 Holland. 



After getting out of the bath, while, half- 

 wrapped in a sheet, we were drying ourselves in 

 the Sun, according" to the custom of the country, 

 a little man of the mulatto race approached us. 

 After bowing gravely, he made us a long speech 

 on the virtues of the waters of Mariara, on the 

 numbers of sick by whom they have been visited 

 for some years past, and on the fortunate situa- 

 tion of the springs between two towns, Valencia 

 and Caraccas, where the neglect of moral con- 

 duct is encreasing every day. He showed us his 

 house, a little hut covered with palm-leaves, and 

 situate in an enclosure at a small distance, on 

 the bank of a rivulet, that communicates with 

 the bath. He assured us. that we should there 

 find all the con veniences of life ; nails to suspend 

 our hammocks, ox-leather to stretch over benches 

 made of reeds, earthen vases always filled with 

 cool water, and what, after the bath, would be 

 most salutary to us of all, those great lizards 

 (iguanas), the flesh of which is known to be a 

 refreshing aliment. We judged from his ha- 



* Roxb. Corom., I, pi. i. 1 . This is the gyrocarpus asiaticus, 

 Willd. 



t G. sphenopterus, and g. rugosus. (Brown, Prodr. 

 vol. 1, p. 405), 



