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MONTEGO BAY. 
most delightful, as I stood for a few minutes within 
its fern-embowered shelter, and drank of the rivulet 
of clear, cold water, that runs along its bottom. 
The approach to Montego Bay is striking and 
beautiful : the high road is in some parts cut through 
the marly soil to a considerable depth, leaving high 
perpendicular banks on each side, crowned with 
forest trees, and fringed and festooned with ferns 
and flowering plants difiering much from those of the 
north side. Through the narrow avenue before us, 
noble views of the coast, of the bay and town, and 
of the sea beyond, are obtained. I even persuaded 
myself, more than once, that I saw high land in the 
horizon, which if real, could be none other than the 
mountains of Cuba, though about ninety miles dis- 
tant. But the power of observation was ^unhappily 
almost quenched by a violent headache, brought pn 
doubtless by eight hours’ exposure to a nearly vertical 
sun, combined with the glare that was reflected from 
the white chalky road. 
THE RINGTAIL PALLETTE-TIP. 
This brief visit to the north side made me ac- 
quainted with a little Saurian of great beauty, the 
Ringtail Pallette-tip {SjpJiceriodactylus Richardsonii), 
Its ground colour is pale red ; the head is marked 
with irregular bands and stripes of brilliant yellow, 
and the body and tail are crossed by transverse broad 
bands, those on the body reddish-lilac, becoming 
brown on the tail ; and at length towards the ex- 
