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pass, without refreshing ourselves by a plunge therein. There 
is a curious opening in the rocks near and we took out some 
specimens of minerals, j. found in this water two plants that 
interested me greatly, one a fresh water Cladophom, and the 
other B atrachosperma. The boluders herabouts are very much 
water-worn. JS'ot far from this is a well built Aqueduct, 
conveying the water down the side of the mountain. We 
followed it for a good distance when we came to a fine grove 
of the Cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao. Clusters of fruit hung 
on every tree, but on examination we found that each kernel 
had been extracted by those voracious pests of these islands, 
the rats. This plantation had evidently been at one time 
carefully cultivated, but was now abandoned. A few Clove 
trees CaryophijUus aromatims were still flourishing ; their 
biossotns shedding fragrance on the air. I wonder this tree 
is not more often seen even in gardens. It is very hand- 
some and the spicy fragrance exhaled from every part of the 
tree should make its presence most acceptable. In planting 
it however, heed should be taken that this tree absorbs mois- 
ture iu so remarkable a degree that little vegetation will grow 
beneath it. However the value of a grove of Clove trees would 
well repay the land devoted to them, whether for the cloves 
themselves or the essential oil they yield. How many things 
are neglected that, though not perhaps sufficiently certain re- 
muneration alone, would make profitable adjuncts to larger 
industries. I caught near here a number of Euplcca and other 
butterflies very similar to the same species in Mauritius and 
one moth quite new to me. 
“ I nearly met with an accident in our course downward, 
that would have considerably shattered all my ideas, if nothing 
more serious. I was hunting a curious centipede a Iulis about 
2 inches long that inhabits the grass at the foot of coconut 
trees when a monster nut just ripe enough to fall clattered, 
down barely missing my head, which if it had struck it would 
have inevitably cracked from the force it had acquired falling 
from such a height. I confess it startled me considerably. 
However I secured many of the lulls iu question. 
“ Mauy of the coconut trees thereabouts looked sickly and 
