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LETTERS FROM 
this island, were some fine cerambyces from 
Corfu and Italy, and a gigantic carabus from 
Tripoli. Dr. Leach has given me several 
insects, chiefly beetles, and in return I was 
glad to supply him with specimens of the 
cerambyx we sometimes find on the aspho- 
delus, but which he had never seen. 
A few days ago we set off early in the 
morning for a long exploring walk, first going 
along the coast beyond St. George’s Bay, 
when we turned off into the interior, and so 
making a wide circuit, came down to the 
harbour near Fort Manuel. For some dis¬ 
tance we followed the course of a little valley, 
which, though more fertile, or, I should rather 
say, less barren than any part of the island 
we had hitherto visited, was almost totally 
unproductive in novelties, either in plants, 
shells, or insects. Almost the only trees we 
met with on this excursion were the fig, now 
