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drink. A copious supply of fluid instantly flowed 
from it, which I should not have distinguished from 
pure cold water. A junk of a yard long, it is said, 
will yield a pint; and lives have been saved by the 
seasonable supply of this plant, when travellers have 
lost their way in the woods, and have been fainting 
with thirst. 
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March 8th. — A friend having business at Pains- 
town, about eight miles distant from Content, I ac- 
companied him. We rode through a lovely mountain 
country, chiefly laid out in pens or grazing farms, 
well studded with trees, and broken by tracts of 
forest. In the neighbourhood of Highgate, on the 
side of a conical hill, covered with huge masses of 
limestone and with small rubble, and crowned with a 
,tuft of Bamboo, I found some shells, especially the 
pretty little new species, which Dr. Pfeifler has 
done me the honour to name Bulimus Gossei, but 
which seems to be rather a Cylindrella, This was in 
great abundance beneath the loose stones. 
In these mountain estates there are no streams ; 
and the resource of the inhabitants is to dig large 
pofids in the hollows, into which the rain-water col- 
lects in the wet season. Owing to the long con- 
tinued drought, these ponds were now very low, 
some dry, and others reduced to a small space of 
water in the centre of a large area of parched and 
cracking mud. At the ooze which margined the 
water, I was interested to observe the honey-bees 
