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about it. The house of Mr. Warner, the President of the Council, is a very finished affair; he is a descendant of a person of the same name, who was the chief colonizer of this and some of the neighbouring islands: the original grant by Charles I. is framed and set up over the door of his dining-room. From the ceiling of the portico, which was covered with foliage of one sort or another, a spiral tendril hung down, and within one of its limber coils I remember a tiny humming-bird had built his cotton-woven nest, and was fearlessly swinging to and fro over our heads, with his breast and body sunk inside, and the tail and crested head alone peeping out on either side. Here also I became acquainted with a new dish of very attractive qualities in genere bellarior u m ; it is called Floating Island by the natives, because a certain dense and vinous mass of guava jelly is made to swim in guise of an islet upon a stagnant lake of cream, and wine, and sugar and citron. It is the correlative of Trifle; but tipsy cake, although a satisfactory thing per se, is not equal to this jelly. I confess I do not see any just cause or impediment why these two articles should not be joined together in one dish. I am convinced, upon mature digestion of the matter, that a simultaneous absorption of both dainties would be highly agreeable to the well-informed appetencies of the man of taste. Dr. Nugent, the geologist, gave us an