temperature, it can no longer retain in a ſtate of ſolution.
In the courſe of the night, the long boat of the Eſperance was torn by the gale from her ſtern, and loſt. To ſupply its place, a ſort of light veſſel uſed in the whale-fiſhery, was purchaſed of an American ſhip.
20th. Though the ſouth-eaſt wind continued to blow with great violence, I made an excurſion in the neighbourhood of the town, where I found, in great abundance, two ſpecies of the chironia, termed C. trinervia and C. dendroides. The gorteria ciliaris likewiſe grew at the foot of the mountains. The beautiful ſhrub, known by the name of brunéa palacea, adorned the riſing grounds. No inſects, of courſe, could be ſeen whilſt the winds blew with ſuch violence.
I took a view of the Company's garden, of which many travellers ſpeak in terms of enthuſiaſtic admiration. It is, nevertheleſs, nothing more than an immenſe incloſure, which contains ſome very fine oaks. Several ſquare plots of ground hedged round with myrtles, are planted with kitchen-vegetables; but very few curious plants are to be ſeen there. They alſo contain ſeveral of the orchard-trees of Europe. I obſerved ſome bananas, the leaves of which had been torn into ſlender ſtrips by the wind.
