Rev, Dr Fleming’s (cleanings of Natural History 
get out of without great difficulty, and, I may add, not without 
some danger. 
We very foolishly allowed ourselves to be tempted by a new 
path, and it was only after a slip, and more than one tumble, 
that we succeeded, after four or five hours of fatigue, in getting 
out from amongst the rocks, in order to descend to the village 
of Sigriswil, on the other side of the mountain. From thence 
to the little village of Gunten, where the boat was waiting for us, 
is only a short walk. We got into it, overcome with fatigue, and 
our clothes all torn ; but delighted at having overcome all the 
difficulties of this little expedition. 
Art. X. — Gleanings of Natural History , gathered on the 
Coast of Scotland during a voyage in 1821. By the Rev. 
John Fleming, D.D. F.R.S.E. M.W.S. &c. * In a Letter 
to Professor Jameson. 
My Dear Sir, 
*1 HE sketch which I gave you last autumn, of some of the 
observations which 1 made in the course of the voyage, in which 
I accompanied Mr Stevenson in the Regent Yacht, during his 
annual inspection of the Northern Light-houses, was so very 
short and imperfect, that I now willingly embrace the opportu- 
nity of complying with your wishes, in communicating the re- 
marks in a more extended form. It is but lately, indeed, that I 
have had it in my power to examine the specimens which I col- 
lected, or to arrange the few notes which I took of the more in- 
teresting appearances which presented themselves. I must add, 
however, that the opportunities of landing at the different parts 
of the coast, though frequent, did not permit of any extended 
inquiries. Desultory observations only were attainable. 
20 th July \ — Embarked in the evening at Newhaven, and 
bore away for the mouth of the Firth of Forth. The weather 
was at this time fine, with the wind blowing slightly from the 
S'W. In passing Inchkeith, however, the motion of the sea 
was observed to be irregular 4 and by the time we reached the 
* Read before the Wernerian Natural History Society, 14th Dec. 1822. 
