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on the trunks of the great trees. Epidendrum nutans 
was also in flower, and very abundant. 
A small garden, in which English vegetables were 
cultivated, was interesting, and its owner was not a 
little proud to show it. Cabbages, carrots, parsley, 
thyme, and sage, were healthy and thriving ; and an 
apple tree displayed a blossom or two. It is curious 
that our common Plantain {Plantago major) is as 
abundant by the way sides, and in the clearings, on 
these mountain-summits as it is in our meadows at 
home. It has doubtless been accidentally introduced, 
and its seeds dispersed by birds. The negroes call it 
English Plantain, to distinguish it from the stately 
Musaceous plant that bears the same name. In like 
manner Water-cress, apparently identical with ours, 
grows abundantly in Blueflelds rivulet, and forms an 
agreeable salad all the year round. 
Near Inverary there is a deep gully, or narrow 
rocky glen, between almost perpendicular rocks. The 
bushes and trees that shoot out of the clefts, and the 
profusion of long lianes and climbing plants that 
sprawl over the surface of the precipices, make it very 
interesting. I endeavoured to go through it ; but 
after advancing some distance, was compelled to re- 
trace my steps, on account of the excessive difiiculty 
presented by the enormous masses of rugged stone 
heaped one on another along the bottom in the most 
Cyclopean confusion, as if thrown there by an 
earthquake. 
