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showed on a drawing and on photographs taken by Mr. 
McConnell on the 1894 expedition. The ledge varied 
in width from five yards in some places to more than a 
hundred yards in others, and as it was very rough and 
rocky and slippery in many places, with very treach- 
erous undergrowth of bush rope and creepers it was not 
a very easy pathway. From what one read of moun- 
tain climbing, however, he supposed it would not present 
any difficulty to those who went in for that form of exercise. 
The path was not absolutely dangerous, except in one or 
two places, where a slip would mean almost certain death. 
On the upper side of the slope a stream fell over the 
ledge, and had cut a great piece out of the sandstone 
forming a valley of 100 feet or more in depth. As a 
result of the trip, for Vvhich as he had said already, the 
Society was indebted to Mr. McConnell, they had a 
more complete collection than had ever been made, from 
the base to the summit. The mountain consisted of a 
series of elevated ridges of sandstone, with small bush 
growth in sheltered places, here and there widening out 
at times into large open spaces. The rocks took almost 
every conceivable shape, and he showed the Sociey pho- 
tographs of some of the peculiar forms. The vegetation, 
which as he said could only be found in the sheltered 
places, was similar to what was found on the Alps, and 
while in some parts it was sparse, on the western side 
they found great masses of trees about thirty or forty feet 
high, and a foot or eighteen inches in diameter at the 
trunk. There was also a dense undergrowth there, and 
in walking they frequently sank to the waist in peat 
which was wet like a soaked sponge. He exhibited 
some of the specimens of the rocks which they came 
across, and said that so far as they knew sandstone formed 
the bulk of the mountain. Their colle6lion of the flora 
of the summit of Roraima included every variety that 
they could find, and specimens would be forwarded to 
Kew for cb.ssification, but when they would hear the 
results he did not know, as they had not yet got a com- 
plete report on the plants that were sent in 1894. The 
fauna of the summit was peculiarly interesting as they 
could imagine, On such an elevated plateau with 4 
