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industrious and pious man was soon afterwards appointed by 
M. Le Brun and his people at Port Louis, and he has since 
laboured there with encouraging success. 
Nearer to Port Louis, though in the same direction, viz., at 
Boche Bois, there is another small but very interesting sta¬ 
tion also connected with M. Le Brun’s church in Port Louis, 
where the people, generally Creole labourers and small pro¬ 
prietors, were building themselves a neat stone chapel. 
Amongst this little community also the school and the preach¬ 
ing of M. Le Brun and his son appeared to be attended 
with beneficial results. 
I also visited another out-station, Nouvelle Decouverte, 
and was much pleased with the character and devotedness of 
the teacher. I only regretted that there were so few inha¬ 
bitants to profit by his exertions. 
On my way back from Nouvelle Decouverte, we visited 
one of the most perfect miniature cascades I have met with. 
The stream, three or four feet wide, shoots over a projecting 
ledge of rock, and falls, in one sheet, from a height of about 
forty feet, into a deep clear basin, twenty or thirty feet across. 
I descended to the edge of the basin, where I found some 
beautiful ferns, and was surprised to see a number of large 
gold fish swimming in the water. I asked an intelligent 
resident in the village who was with us, if they had been 
purposely put there, but he said, “No, they have come down 
with the stream.” In an English domain, such a spot would 
have been invaluable. 
But the most attractive natural objects I met with during 
this excursion, were the number of large and exceedingly 
fine grown tree-ferns, standing sometimes singly, but more 
frequently in clusters of eight or ten, and growing to the 
height of from seven to twenty feet. Nothing could surpass 
the graceful beauty of the large, feathery, and bright green 
fronds of this truly elegant class of plants, which were here so 
