TEMPTING DEPOSITS. 
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of which there are galore, on the beached margent 
of the sea."" I passed the sunken camp where 
astute Nipong men daily practise rifle-shooting, and 
near which there are tempting deposits that invite 
inspection, rewarding the coleopterist sometimes with 
a huge black shard-beetle, an amethystine species, 
and a singular kind with a long reciuved frontal 
horn, and where green chaffers abound on the 
leaves of the young oaks. Vast mounts of white 
sand, covered with undulations like the ripples of 
the sea ; drift-hillocks, soft and dazzling like heaps 
of snow ; long wavy ridges, half buiying the 
fishermen’s huts, and banking up the boat-houses, 
are seen on every side. Nature presents all her 
beauties in rich profusion. The roses are large, 
blushing, and fragrant, and the Sedums with their 
whoiied succulent green leaves, invite the eye. 
Eolhng down the gentle sand declivities, or crawling 
painfully up the banks, under the diy, scattered 
shards of oxen and horses, under heaps of dead 
leaves, and by the snaky roots of brine-washed 
plants, there nestle scores and scores of gray-brown. 
