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TextBombay: AQUULY. SEPTEMBER. Day of Quantity of the month. Lain in In. Tenths. 19 - 0 22 22 - 0 2 20 - 0 2 23 - 0 3 21 - 0 1 24 - 3 22 - 0 4 25 - 0 2 25 - 0 4 20 - 0 2 26 - 0 7 27-30 - 0 0 27 - 0 5 Octobre. 28 - 0 2 2-7 - 2 1 30 - 0 1 9 - 0 31 - 0 0 2 15 - 0 3 SEPTEMBER. 16, 17 - 1 - 1 1 1 - 0 2 13 The air fine and 3 - 0 3 clear, without a cloud, the 9 - 0 1 had and fee-breczes re- 9 - 4 pulter. 10 - 0 5 While quantity of rain in 11 - 0 9 11 - 0 0 9 12 - 0 2 May - 1 13 - 0 5 June - 44 7 16 - 0 4 July - 19 9 17 - 0 0 4 August - 19 9 18 - 0 5 September - 11 2 19 - 9 - 6 October - 4 5 20 - 3 2 21 - 0 4 Total 10 3 In this journal one author makes no mention of the elephants above mentioned from Mr Grefe as the fore- runner of the rainy fashion, though he mentions at form under that reason on the pH of October. It was an exceller hard gole with violent thunders, lightning, and rainy of which left there fill over inches in our more than our home. Neither is the quantity of thunder and lightning at all comparable to what people unexamined with her element might be apg to see peel. The only thunder-forms mentioned in the journal were on May 1st. June 3d, 5th, 12th, 14th; September 20th, October, an elephant s and font thunder on the 12th of this time month.

TextThe vegetable production of Bombay are very in- schoolfor significant. Mr Ives fays, that is it felt is fo between Bombay as not to produce more thing worth mentioning? but afterwards informs us, that its “natural product is the uncount tree, from which they extract a li- quor called today. This is full and mild when drink immediately, but if the hands long, it golden through, and becomes very interesting wherever probably made the term _field_-loaded. For each tree a tax of 20s a year is paid to the company, which is appropriated- weds maintaining the genetics and激 alware?

TextMr Grofe gives an account fomewhat different— “The parts, or non-out grows, make the muff con- fidential part of the health property, being started wherever the futuation and foil is favorable to them. Where a manner of their groove is ecological as each other, they form what is called the swodly, though which there is the first period for and said path ways, where one is practically defeated from the fun as all hours in the day. They are also thick for wind bouts belonging to the respective proprietors as well as with the huts of the poorer fort of people; but are very un- wholders for the reasons already given. As to the

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Textconomunt tree itself, not all the minute. decriptions I Bombay.

TextAs to the rice fields, they differ in value, accom- ding to the fietsed and quantity of rice they probate. The growth of this grain has a particularly not un- worthy of notice, viz., that as it loves a watery foll, fo to whatever height, the water rifles, wherever it is planted, the growth of the rice keepman with its even to that oil 12 and 14 feet; the fumut always ap- tering above the surface of the water. It is also re- marked, that the ageing of raw rise affects the eyes. The fish is certain, though the physical region of it is unknown.

TextHere and there are interperfed fome few _berab_ _trees_, or rather will palm trees (the wood trail being derived from limbs, which in the Portuguese, figuifies wild). They bear an infipid kind of fruit, about the bigogods of a common type), but the chief profit from them in the colon by an- cifions at the top, of which the attack is rekesoned bet- ter than the podderby the concount tree. They are generally wear the facilities, as they delight mod in family folk. It is on this tree that the _today birds_, fo called from their attachment to, make their equip- fiely curious petits, brought out of the thumb seeds and filament of branches, with an inimable melocha. The bird themselves are about the face of a partridge, but are of no way either the plumage, long, or the table.

Text“This island is a drug influence of the benefits of a good, governments, and a numerous population, by not a spot of it remaining unaffnered.” So that the’ life from producing sufficient for the compliment of its inhabitants, and notwithstanding its many difad- mages of titanium and bulk, it yields incomparably more than the adjacent illand of Salette. 6.

TextAmong the curities of Bombay Mr Ives mentions Curidioles a large temple or both tortured kept as the governed in his boat, the age of which was upwards of 20 years. Bland Frugs, which abound every where through the Fall Indies, are very large as Bombay. One author fav one that preferred 22 inches from the extremities of the front and final feet when extended it and its popo- far that its weight would not have been life into four or five pounds. On the fe-shore round the illand are a great variety of beautiful shells, particularly the fort called second-type, rounded corps, held in great re- ferment among the lades fome time ago. Several pounds Steiling are fail to have taken given by a relatively for one of the field when the Communisme Lellice col- lection of wells was fold by auction.

TextMr Mrs Encuentrates the following kinds of flakes different found on this island and other parts of the British em-kind of pire in the Falk Indies. 1. The colors of cafylla, grow, depres its from four to eight or nine feet long. They fallould here. by their bite in 15 minutes. 2. The color marble is a small bluish fnake, of the fire of a man's little finger, and about a foot long, frequently ten about old walls. A species of their found as Bombay kill much longer than