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Chap . IV . relates the passage to Teneriffe , and from thence to St . Jago , with notices of those islands . The most interesting object in the former island is the Peak , of which an account will be seen in a former part of our Magazine ; and in the latter a dreadful famine had subsisted , from the want of rain , for alx > ut three years . _ Chap . V . describes the ' passage of the Line . Course across the Atlantic . The harbour , city , and country of Rio de Janeiro . ' Of this capital of
the Brazils a long and entertaining account is given ; and a pretty copious description of the Cochineal insect . It is observed that ' the shops of Rio were full of Manchester manufactures , and other British goods , even to English prints , both serious and caricature . ' Chap . VI . narrates the ' passage . to the southern part of the Atlantic , and of the Indian Ocean . View of the Islands of Tristan d'Acunha in the Former ,
and of those of St . Paul and Amsterdam , in the latter . ' In the last mentioned island a curious phaenomenonoccurred . Round the harbour , or bason , were several springs of hot water . Fahrenheit ' s thermometer , which stood in the air at 62 deg . on being immersed into one of those hot springs , ascended immediately to 19 6 deg . In another , it rose to 204 ; and in a third , on applying the bulb of the thermometer to , a creviceout of which a small stream issuedin less than a minute it rose to
, , the boiling point . On various trials , in several springs , it was found that the . general standard of heat was that of si 3 deg . when the bulb of the thermometer was applied to the fissure from whence the water issued ; and , that if a kind of reservoir was formed round the spring , the water in it would generally remain about the temperature of 2 . 04 . deg . The bason abounded with tench , bream , and perch ; and the same person , who with a hook and line , had caught
some of these fish in the cold water of the bason , might , with the same motion of his hand , let them drop into the hot adjoining springrw-here , in fact , they were boiled , in the space of fifteen minutes , and fit for eating . " Chap . VII . relates the ' Entrance into the straits of Sunda . Visit to Batavia and Bantam , in the island of Java . View of the southern extremity of the island of Sumatra . Passage through the straits of Banka to Pulo Condore . ' The unhealthiness of Batavia is confirmed by the following anecdote . ' Of
the fatal effects of the climate upon both sexes a strong proof was given by a lady there , who mentioned , that out of eleven persons of her family , who had come to Batavia only ten months before , her father , brothei ' -in-law , and six sisters , had already paid the debt of nature . ' In our extracts we shall be particularly attentive to objects of science and valuable information , and in this place we shall present our readers with the descriptions of some valuable lantsiven in this chapter . ' One of the
delep , g gates at Batavia gave , from the medical garden , ayoung growing ntttmegplant and a nut , in a state supposed rapable of germination , to a person belonging to the embassy , who committed it immediaetly to the care of a gentleman , then bound for England , in order to be put in his Majesty ' s rich botanical garden at Kew ; from whence , had the plant succeeded there , this tree might have b en propagated in the British . plantations in the West Indies ; in like manner as the coffee-tree was transplanted to the French West Indies , in the
Beginning of the present century , from a very few specimens in the botanic garden at Paris . The nutmeg plant , however , suffered in the passage , and was left at St . Helena . The nutmeg tree is a beautiful vegetable . The stem , with a smooth brown bark , rises perfectly straight . Its strong and numerous branches proceed regularly from it in an oblique direction upwards . They bear large oval leaves , pendulous from them , some a foot in length . The upper and outer surface of the leaf is smooth , and of a deep agreeable green ';
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Review Op New Publications.
Chap . IV . relates the passage to Teneriffe , and from thence to St . Jago , with notices of those islands . The most interesting object in the former island is the Peak , of which an account will be seen in a former part of our Magazine ; and in the latter a dreadful famine had subsisted , from the want of rain , for alx > ut three years . _ Chap . V . describes the ' passage of the Line . Course across the Atlantic . The harbour , city , and country of Rio de Janeiro . ' Of this capital of
the Brazils a long and entertaining account is given ; and a pretty copious description of the Cochineal insect . It is observed that ' the shops of Rio were full of Manchester manufactures , and other British goods , even to English prints , both serious and caricature . ' Chap . VI . narrates the ' passage . to the southern part of the Atlantic , and of the Indian Ocean . View of the Islands of Tristan d'Acunha in the Former ,
and of those of St . Paul and Amsterdam , in the latter . ' In the last mentioned island a curious phaenomenonoccurred . Round the harbour , or bason , were several springs of hot water . Fahrenheit ' s thermometer , which stood in the air at 62 deg . on being immersed into one of those hot springs , ascended immediately to 19 6 deg . In another , it rose to 204 ; and in a third , on applying the bulb of the thermometer to , a creviceout of which a small stream issuedin less than a minute it rose to
, , the boiling point . On various trials , in several springs , it was found that the . general standard of heat was that of si 3 deg . when the bulb of the thermometer was applied to the fissure from whence the water issued ; and , that if a kind of reservoir was formed round the spring , the water in it would generally remain about the temperature of 2 . 04 . deg . The bason abounded with tench , bream , and perch ; and the same person , who with a hook and line , had caught
some of these fish in the cold water of the bason , might , with the same motion of his hand , let them drop into the hot adjoining springrw-here , in fact , they were boiled , in the space of fifteen minutes , and fit for eating . " Chap . VII . relates the ' Entrance into the straits of Sunda . Visit to Batavia and Bantam , in the island of Java . View of the southern extremity of the island of Sumatra . Passage through the straits of Banka to Pulo Condore . ' The unhealthiness of Batavia is confirmed by the following anecdote . ' Of
the fatal effects of the climate upon both sexes a strong proof was given by a lady there , who mentioned , that out of eleven persons of her family , who had come to Batavia only ten months before , her father , brothei ' -in-law , and six sisters , had already paid the debt of nature . ' In our extracts we shall be particularly attentive to objects of science and valuable information , and in this place we shall present our readers with the descriptions of some valuable lantsiven in this chapter . ' One of the
delep , g gates at Batavia gave , from the medical garden , ayoung growing ntttmegplant and a nut , in a state supposed rapable of germination , to a person belonging to the embassy , who committed it immediaetly to the care of a gentleman , then bound for England , in order to be put in his Majesty ' s rich botanical garden at Kew ; from whence , had the plant succeeded there , this tree might have b en propagated in the British . plantations in the West Indies ; in like manner as the coffee-tree was transplanted to the French West Indies , in the
Beginning of the present century , from a very few specimens in the botanic garden at Paris . The nutmeg plant , however , suffered in the passage , and was left at St . Helena . The nutmeg tree is a beautiful vegetable . The stem , with a smooth brown bark , rises perfectly straight . Its strong and numerous branches proceed regularly from it in an oblique direction upwards . They bear large oval leaves , pendulous from them , some a foot in length . The upper and outer surface of the leaf is smooth , and of a deep agreeable green ';