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favourites; and of tlie latter, the wide-spreading 
Genip and Tamarind, the tall Papaw, and the golden- 
fruited members of the Citrus genus, from the 
gigantic Shaddock to the diminutive Lime. 
BLUEFIELDS. 
A day or two sufficed to apprehend the beauties 
of Savanna-le-Mar, and I was anxious, besides, to 
commence my regular collecting. The ship’s cutter 
was put at my service, and manned to rov/ me across 
the Bay. Kind friends were waiting fof me on the 
beach, and the hospitable roof of Bluefields soon 
received me, and became my home thenceforward as 
long as I remained in the island, a period of eighteen 
months. 
In the prosperous days of Jamaica, Bluefields 
was a sugar estate; but is now, like many other 
beautiful properties, given up, almost entirely, to 
resume the original wildness of nature. The greater 
partis, therefore, what is called ruinate, the expressive 
term applied to land in such a neglected condition. 
About a dozen acres are kept open in pasture, among 
the grass of which grow many flowering weeds, 
such as the Mexican Horn-poppy {Argemone), the 
West Indian Vervain {Stachytarplia), Swallow worts 
{AscleyiadcE), small Passifiorce, and others ; and about 
as much more is planted with the valuable, and 
always verdant, Guinea-grass (Panicum, jumentorum), 
among the tussocks of which may generally be seen 
fluttering dozens of that pretty pink-winged moth, 
Deiopeia hella. But all around is covered with a 
