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A ramiu-e in oknthal amkktca j 
lion. The streets Avere the receptac?le for every deseription of rub* 
bish, and the rain had reduced them into rivers of liquid mud, into 
which the drivers of drays, &o., Avere compelled to plunge, to en- 
able them to pass along, as the raihvay track in the centre of the 
street did not permit of their crossing only at certain points. In 
many places the streets AA^ere, for often as much as a hundred yards 
in length, from two or three feet deep in mud, and I frequently 
saw mules in drays sunk up to their shoulders, in this abominable 
filth. It rained at intervals during the nights and immediately after 
a downpour, the smell arising from the disturbed surface of the 
saturated ground, and the numerous mud pools, was very hard to 
put up with, but nevertheless it had to be borne, as Ave had to 
Avait for six days to get a ship to Jamaica. 
The Royal Mail steamer Belize’^ then made her appearance, 
and Ave engaged a passage in her, nothing loth to leaAm this pesti- 
lential hole and return to our home in Jamaica. Punch’s advice 
to those about to marry, is equally applicable to those who are 
about goingto Colon, Don’t.” 
A short vo^^age landed us in Kingston on a Saturday OA^ening 
after an absence of six weeks. The subjoined lists giving the re- 
sults of our journey in a strictly Botanical sense, the plants haAung 
all been accurately determined by the Staff of the Royal Herba- 
rium, KeAV, through the kindness of Professor Dyer, O.M.Gr., 
Director of the Royal Gardens, Avho is always ready to extend 
his sympathy and assistance to all interested in the progress of 
Botanical Science. 
J. II. HART. 
