As the king in the old play says, 'What has been, has been, and I've had my hour.' At last we had seen it; and we could not unsee it.

We could not not have been in the Tropics.
Footnotes: {4} Raleigh's Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of Azores.
{8} Chiroteuthi and Onychoteuthi.
{15a} Cocoloba uvifera.
{15b} Plumieria.
{25a} Anona squamosa.
{25b} A.muricata.
{25c} A.chierimolia.
{25d} A.reticulata.
{26a} Persea gratissima.
{26b} Dioscorea.
{26c} Colocasia esculcuta.
{27a} Dr.Davy's West Indies.
{27b} An account of the Souffriere of Montserrat is given by Dr. Nugent, Geological Society's Transactions, vol.i., 1811.
{28} For what is known of these, consult Dr.Nugent's 'Memoir on the Geology of Antigua,' Transactions of Geological Society, vol. v., 1821.

See also Humboldt, Personal Narrative, book v.cap.

14.
{33} Acrocomia.
{36} Naval Chronicles, vol.xii.p.

206.
{38} Craspedocephalus lanceolatus.
{40} Coluber variabilis.
{43a} Breen's St.Lucia, p.