clothes to the uſe of the living: they were accordingly carried off, and all purſuit after the robbers was in vain.
Citizens Riche and Blavier, engaged in the ſtudy of natural hiſtory, had undertaken a journey to the peak the day after we had ſet out upon ours; but they did not ſucceed in reaching the ſummit; for whilſt they were ſtill at a conſiderable diſtance from it, their lungs being unable to accommodate themſelves to the rarefied atmoſphere, they were ſeized with a ſpitting of blood, which obliged them to relinquiſh their enterprize.
The following days were employed by us in viſiting the environs of St. Croix, where the country is in general very barren.
The town is very thinly peopled, even in proportion to the ſmallneſs of its extent; though the harbour here is more frequented than any other in the iſland. The Spaniards have introduced here their own manner of building. The diſtribution of the internal part of the houſes is the ſame with that which they practiſe in Europe, without any of thoſe modifications which the difference of the climate requires.
The Governor-general of the Canary-iſlands uſually reſides at St. Croix. There are ſeveral convents of monks and nuns in this place. One
