VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR, I71 



** that of the Laplanders, is aim oft gradtiated 

 " as from the Laplander to the Klmos. 

 " Both inhabit the coldeft regions and the 

 higheft mountains in the world. Tliofe 

 ** of Mad^gafcar, where the Kimos live, 

 ** are, as I have already obfervedj fixteen or 

 ** eighteen hundred fathoms high above the 

 * ' level of the fea. The vegetable produdions 

 " which grow on thefe elevated places ap- 

 " pear to be ftunted, foch as the pine, the 

 ** birch J and a great many others, which 

 " from the clafs of trees defcend to that of 

 ** humble fhrubs, merely becaufe they have 

 ** become alpicoles,that is to fay, inhabitaats 

 ** of the high eft mountains.'* 



To this extraift from Mr, Commerfon's 

 Memoir on the Kimos, I ftiall add a few 

 obfcrvations by M. de Modave on the fame 

 fubjed, 



. *' When I arrived/' fays te, " at Fort 

 " Dauphin, in 17685 an ill-written memoir 



*' was 



