what was there beneath the ledge ?
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At Carizal there were a few cottages, some brackish water, and a trace of cultivation: but it was with difficulty that we purchase da little corn and straw for our horses. From the great preponderance in most countries of certain common genera of birds, such as the finches, one feels at first surprised at meeting with the peculiar forms above enumerated, as the commonest birds in any district .on stones twisted by earthquakes. Earthquakes alone are sufficient to destroy the prosperity of any country. "MAY 23, 1835. )MAURITIUS TOENGLAND.It has generally been supposed that they were used as heads to clubs, although their form does not appear at all well adapted for that purpose. It consists of a thin, straight, fleshy stem, with alternate rows of polypi on each side, and surrounding an elastic stony axis, varying in length from eight inches to two feet. It is probable that the thermometer would not have stood very many degrees below the freezing-point, but the effect on their bodies, ill protected by clothing, must have been in proportion to the rapidity of the current of cold air. The country was exceedingly pleasant; just such as poets would call pastoral: green open lawns, separated by small valleys with rivulets, and the cottages, we may suppose of the shepherds, scattered on the hill-sides. At the place where we slept water necessarily boiled, from the diminished pressure of the atmosphere, at a lower temperature than it does in a less lofty country; the case being the converse of that of a Papin's digester. 3.After tobacco, indigo came next in value; then capsicum, old clothes, and gunpowder. " It is interesting thus to discover how numerous the seeds are, which, coming from several countries, are drifted over the wide ocean. Great Seaweed.