VOyAGE TO MAJ>AGASCAR. 25 1 



fflip and confidence, being defirous of pro* 

 curing for his cekbrated garden at Mont* 

 fiajfir^ known at prefent by the name of tbi 

 Ktng*s Botanical Garden in ihe IJle of Frmce^ 

 the rareft and moil ufcful plants of that 

 iflaadp caft his eye« upon me as a perfoa 

 proper for making that valuable colleftion. 

 He, indeed, could not have given a richer 

 prefent to the colony entrufted to his care. 

 This able admiaiftrator never fuffered a vef- 

 fel to depart without rtquefting the captain, 

 or fome intelligent officer, to bring him the* 

 various produ^flions of the countries which 

 they were going to vifit ; and this demand 

 was always accompanied with proper in- 

 ftrudions. The garden of Mmtplaifir thus 

 became, in his hands, one of the richeft 

 nurferies known, fince it contains the moft 

 valuable plants of the four quarters of the 

 world. 



On my arrival at Foulepointc I did not 



find 



