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must remember the glowing sense of happiness which he g experienced, when he first breathed in a foreign clime, of where the civilized man had seldom or never trod.

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There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long by voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture m full of the most varied and animated figures. Each part sc assumes its proper dimensions: continents are not looked ch at in the light of islands, or islands considered as mere o specks, which are, in truth, larger than many kingdoms m of Europe. Africa, or North and South America, are well- c sounding names, and easily pronounced; but it is not until n having sailed for weeks along small portions of their g shores, that one is thoroughly convinced what vast spaces h on our immense world these names imply.

From seeing the present state, it is impossible not to c look forward with high expectations to the future progress of nearly an entire hemisphere. The march of improvement, consequent on the introduction of Christianity throughout the South Sea, probably stands by itself in the records of history. It is the more striking when we remember that only sixty years since, Cook, whose excellent judgment none will dispute, could foresee no prospect of a change. Yet these changes have now been effected by the philanthropic spirit of the British nation.

In the same quarter of the globe Australia is rising, or indeed may be said to have risen, into a grand centre of civilization, which, at some not very remote period, will rule as empress over the southern hemisphere. It is impossible for an Englishman to behold these distant colonies, without a high pride and satisfaction. To hoist the British flag, seems to draw with it as a certain consequence, wealth, prosperity, and civilization.

In conclusion, it appears to me that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries. It both sharpens, and partly allays that want and craving, which, as Sir J. Herschel remarks, a man experiences although every corporeal sense be fully satisfied. The excitement from the novelty of objects, and the chance of success, stimulate him to increased activity. Moreover, as a number of isolated facts soon become uninteresting, the habit of comparison leads to generalization. On the other hand, as the traveller stays but a short time in each place, his descriptions must

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generally consist of mere sketches, instead of detailed Observations. Hence arises, as I have found to my cost, a constant tendency to fill up the wide gaps of knowledge, by inaccurate and superficial hypotheses.

But I have too deeply enjoyed the voyage, not to recom-. mend any naturalist, although he must not expect to be so fortunate in his companions as I have been, to take all chances, and to start, on travels by land if possible, if otherwise on a long voyage. He may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to teach him good-humoured patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence. In short, he ought to partake of the characteristic qualities of most sailors. Travelling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many truly kind-hearted people there are, with whom he never before had, or ever again will have any further communication, who yet are ready to offer him the most disinterested assistance.

NOTE.-The snake, described at page 91, with the curious habit of vibrating its tail, is a new species of Trigonocephalus, which M. Bibron proposes to call T. crepitans.

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large animals, 83

Agouti, habits of, 66

Ague common in Peru, 351

Albemarle Island, 361
Allan, Dr., on Diodon, 13

on Holuthuriæ, 447

Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, 349
-, stratified, in Andes, 303
Amancaes, 353

Amblyrhynchus, 366, 370 seq., 379
Anas, species of, 190
Animalculæ. See Infusoria
Antarctic islands, 237

Antipodes, 401

Ants at Keeling Island, 439

in Brazil, 33

Apires, or miners, 326

Aplysia, 6, 447

Apple-trees, wood of, 284, 285

Aptenodytes demersa, 189, 190

Areas of alternate movements in the Pacific
and Indian Oceans, 462

Armadilloes, habits of, 91

fossil animals allied to, 123, 147

Arrow-heads, ancient, 99, 342

Ascension, 472

Aspalax, blindness of, 49

Astelia pumila, 274

Athene cunicularia, 118

Atolls, 448 seq.

Attagis, 89

Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, 112

Audubon, M.,

on smelling-power of

carrion-hawks, 175

Australia, 415

Australian barrier, 474
Azara on spiders, 34, 36

on rain in La Plata, 44

on habits of carrion-hawks, 54
on range of carrion-hawks, 56
on a thunder-storm, 58

on ostrich-eggs, 86

on bows and arrows, 100

on new plants springing up, 112
on great droughts, 126
on hydrophobia, 339

BACHMAN, Mr., on carrion-hawks, 176
Bahia Blanca, 72 seq., 357

Brazil, 11

scenery of, 476

Balbi on coral reefs, 452
Bald Head, Australia, 433
Ballenar, Chile, 334
Banda Oriental, 71, 134
Banks's Hill, 200

Barking-bird, 276

Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 180
of Storm Bay, 429

Bathurst, Australia, 425, 426

Bats, vampire, 20, 21

Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 401
Beads, hill of, 141

Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 214
Beech-trees, 224, 268

Beetles, small number of, in Tierra del
Fuego, 227

alive in sea, 150
dung-feeders, 471
of Patagonia, 157
in brackish water, 20

Behring's Straits, fossils of, 125
Bell of Quillota, 243, 244, 245
Benchuca, 317
Berkeley Sound, 179

Bibron, M., 367, 370
Bien-te-veo, 51

Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 364,
380

Birds, tameness of, 383 seq.

Birgos latro, 445

Bizcacha, habits of, 66, 117, 118

Blackwall, Mr., on spiders, 153

Blindness of tucutuco, 49

Blue-gum-tree, 417

Mountains, 420

Body, frozen, 84, 238

Bolabola, 452, 456

Bolas, manner of using, 42, 105

Bombs, volcanic, 474

Bones of the guanaco collected in certain

spots, 159-167

fire made of, 185

recent in Pampas, 127

fossil, 77, 120, 123, 147, 164
Booby, the, 9

Bory St. Vincent on frogs, 367
Bramador, El, 347

Brazil, great area of granite, 11, 12
Breakwater of sea-weed, 228

Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous deposit, 9
Bridge of hide, 251

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CABBAGE palm, 24

Cacti, 165, 249, 360

Cactornis, 364, 365, 380

Calasoma on wing out at sea, 150

Calcareous casts of branches and roots of

trees at King George's Sound, 433.
incrustations on rocks of Ascension, 8

Callao, 350, 353

Calodera, 118

Calomys bizcacha, 117

Camarhynchus, 365, 380

Camelidæ, fossil animal allied to, 164
Canis antarcticus, 184
Azaræ, 225
fulvipes, 268
Magellanicus, 225

Capybara, or carpincho, 47, 275

fossil allied to, 78

Cape Horn, 201

of Good Hope, 81, 82

Caracara, or Carrancha, 52, 53, 54

Cardoon, beds of, 113, 140
Carrion-hawks, 52, 175
Casarita, 90

Castro, Chiloe, 265, 281

Casuarina, 433

Casuchas, 311, 321

Cathartes, 55, 176

Cats run wild, 114, 474

good to eat, 110

Cattle killed by great droughts, 127, 139

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183

know each other, 137

curious breed of, 137, 138

wild at the Falkland Islands, 180-182,

Cauquenes, hot springs of, 251, 252

Causes of extinction of species among
mammalia, 164

of discoloured sea, 14

Cavia Patagonica, 66, 67

Caylen, 266, 267

Certhia familiaris, 226

Cervus campestris, 46

Ceryle Americana, 131

Chacao, Chiloe, 262

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-, passage of, 301

structure of valleys, 302
geology of, 306, 318, 319
rivers of, 303

of Copiapó, 343

Cormorant catching fish, 189

Corral, where animals are slaughtered at

Buenos Ayres, 115

Coseguina, eruption of, 279

Couthouy, Mr., on coral-reefs, 457

Cox, valley of, 422

Crabs, hermit species of, 439, 440
at Keeling Island, 445

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lera, 313

of frogs, 367

of Fauna of Galapagos, 378

Dobrizhoffer on ostriches, 88

on a hail-storm, 109

Docks, in New Zealand, imported, 412
Dogs, shepherd, 142, 143
Donatia Magellanica, 274

D'Orbigny, travels in South America, 74,
88, 113, 122, 142, 159
Doris, eggs of, 191

Doubleday, Mr., on a noise made by a
butterfly, 32

Drigg, lightning tubes at, 56
Droughts, great, in Pampas, 125, 126
Dryness of St. Jago, 4

of winds in Tierra del Fuego, 220

of air in Cordillera, 312

Du Bois, 367, 385

Dung-feeding beetles, 471

Dust, falling from atmosphere, 4

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-on plains of Santa Cruz, 178
of Tierra del Fuego, 236

Estancia, value of, 137
Eucalyptus, 417, 432

Extinction of shells at St. Helena, 471

of species, causes of, 165

of man in New South Wales, 418,
430

Eyes of tucutuco and mole, 49

FALCONER, Dr., on the Sivatherium, 138
Jesuit, on the Indians, 99, 161

on rivers in Pampas, 101

on natural enclosures, 110

Falkland Isands, 179

182

birds tame at, 384

absence of trees at, 45, 185
carrion-hawks of, 55

-, geology of, 187

wild cattle and horses of, 181,

climate of, 231, 232

-, peat of, 274

-, zoology of, 189

Fat, quantity eaten, 111

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