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1829, and the second was sent to replace it in 1830. Writing to Mr. 
Barclay, June 28, 1830, he says : ‘In sending me your fine plants, 
fruit trees, and flowers, you did not contemplate the blessings you 
were thus communicating to the great island of Madagascar, where 
your apples, pears, and plums are now in great abundance in the 
markets of the capital, and add to the subsistence as well as the 
luxuries of a numerous people, and to the countless generations 
which will succeed them. 5 Dr. Telfair was on terms of great 
intimacy with Dr. Bojer, Professor of the Royal College of Mauritius, 
and Dr. Hilsenberg, whose researches in Madagascar have been 
so valuable to science. He died at Port Louis on the 14th July 1833. 
Vide Hooker’s Journal 0/Botany, vol. i. p. 149. Footnote by Editor 
to Thamnophora Telfairice. 
P. xvii. Introduction.—It ought to be mentioned how indebted the 
Editor is to M. Henri Froidevaux, who has lately printed at Ven- 
dome the hitherto unpublished MS. Journal of the Sieur de Lespinay , 
an officer on board the Sultanne , a consort of the Navarre , in M. de 
La Haye’s squadron, which last vessel conveyed the Sieur Dubois 
to Bourbon in 1671. M. Froidevaux in his preface gives valuable 
information of other unpublished MS. journals by officers engaged 
in the same expedition. It is hardly probable that more details 
concerning the original fauna and flora of Bourbon could be gathered 
from any of these documents ; but it might be as well for naturalists 
engaged in sifting the evidence concerning the extinct species in 
the Mascarene Islands to examine these papers in the archives of 
the Marine and Colonial Departments in Paris. To M. Froidevaux’s 
voluminous notes, the present Editor owes much of the information 
now added to the translation of Dubois’ voyage. 
P. 1. Epistle Dedicatory. Monsieur Loyseau.—All inquiries 
have failed to obtain any information regarding this King’s Coun¬ 
cillor. In Colbert’s letters reference is made to a M. Loyseau {vide 
vol. vi. p. 271, note 1), but this is the eminent juriconsulte of a 
previous generation, Charles Loyseau, who died in 1627. The 
patron of Dubois may have been, and probably was, a son or near 
relation of this lawyer, whose works were published in 1660, and 
held in great esteem. Vide Biographie Universelle. 
P. 4. Fort Dauphin.—‘ Le Fort Dauphin a este designe quarre 
par celuy [Pronis] 1 qui l’a commence. II avoit deux petits Bastions 
demy elevez de cailloux sur le roch, qui au coste du Nord com- 
mandoient le Port capable de tenir k bon abry quatre Vaisseaux 
seulement. L’enceinte du reste n’estoit que de pieux gros comme 
le bras, & le tour avoit este reduit h cent cinquante pas de long, & 
1 The former fort had been destroyed immediately on the departure of the 
Sieur de Flacourt in February 1655. Vide ‘ Relation de ce qui s’est passe en 
l’lsle de Madagascar depuis le 12 Febr. 1655, jusque au 19 Januier 1656.’ 
Flacourt, Relation , pte. ii. pp. 410 et seq. 
