When I see a banana I well recollect admiring them with you in Cambridge--little did I then think how soon I should eat their fruit.
August 15th.

In a few days the box will go by the "Emulous" packet (Capt.

Cooke) to Falmouth and will be forwarded to you.

This letter goes the same way, so that if in course of due time you do not receive the box, will you be kind enough to write to Falmouth?
We have been here (Monte Video) for some time; but owing to bad weather and continual fighting on shore, we have scarcely ever been able to walk in the country.

I have collected during the last month nothing, but to-day I have been out and returned like Noah's Ark with animals of all sorts.
I have to-day to my astonishment found two Planariae living under dry stones: ask L.Jenyns if he has ever heard of this fact.