The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-28 00:00:00

In fact, we have sufficient matter to elucidate the
climate of the south, and to establish its compa‘
rative mildness with the north, especially if Ame-
rica be taken as the example. The Summers of
the south are by no means warm or hot, nor
winters cold ; but to compensate for this, it is
the region of wind, storms, and rain, perpetual
gales and eternal rains; never 24 hours without
rain. It is the Court of Eolus surely. The
barometric pressure low and mean, being 22.32
inches,—magnetic intensity low,—the winds
almost always westerly,—electric phenomena ex-
tremely rare. These are the outlines of the cli-
mate, to which great attention has been paid on
board the Chanticleer with the best possible in-
struments. I have forwarded some seed:: from
these regions, which will stand the English cli-
mate well and prove advantageous; from among
them I will enumerate one or two.

" First, the Fuegian rush, of which most ad-
mirable baskets are made, table-mats, chair-bot-
toms, and probably hats and bonnets : it is re-
markably strong, and the produce rather elegant,
somewhat like cane work or India mats.
stem is rather sweet, and when dried eats like
coarse hay, for which in cases of necessity it may
be a substitute. This rush has the habit and as-
pect of our common rush, which, however, it
must justly supplant by reason of its very superior
qualities. It will grow on moist boggy soils,
where nothing else will grow. Its flower is large,
and not inelegant ; it is the juncus grand locus.
I have sent a fine specimen of the basket work
to the Admiralty, with a quantity of seeds, should
it be thought worthy of notice.
" Secondly, the seeds of a barberry (harberris
microphylla), intermediate in quality between a
grape and a gooseberry, of a good size and fine
appearance ; the bush is not inelegant ; is a free
and copious beater ; the fruit fit for the table, or
domestic use.
" Thirdly, Seeds of a large and luxuriant
celery, of very hardy habit.
" Fourthly, A most charming and elegant
arbutus, an evergreen of great beauty, competing
even with the myrtle, and bearing a profusion of
red berries in the winter.
" Fifthly, A Frechsia, of great merit ; being,
in fact, a shrub of good size, bearing clusters of
pendant flowers of the greatest beauty. It is a
very superb plant, and so hardy as to leave no
doubt of its being an ornament to the choicest
gardens.
ie
oltlilorinuemo,famnostv auriculai‘id hue, of gazautinionol.;
and ornamental plants.
The berries of the hamadryas, form a colour
tmh
between turmeric and annotta, with a curious

specimen of Mood, green as verdigreise, which
forms an admirable paint. These are some of
the results of my botanical researches, excepting
some remarks upon the magnificent and gigantic
sea-weeds of these regions. The Horticultural
Society will have all the seeds, as they furnished
me with paper, &c., for their preservation, and.
as I am in some measure employed by them.
<<ln comparative anatomy, I have made some
researches which are curious. In the dissection
of the seal of South Shetland, I found a vein of
enormous magnitude, 17 inches in diameter, a
most prodigious one indeed, and unparalleled,
but in this department you have little interest.
Well, we will proceed from Staten Island to
South Shetland, and to the southern land (query
continent ?), as many of us were disposed to
rank it, from its extent and appearance. Lofty
mountains running a considerable distance in.
land, 70 miles, and a great extent of coast, which
we could not determine. We came to a point,
which we called Cape Possession, and deposited
a cylinder, containin, an inscription of our tak-
ing possession in the name of George IV., the
e we werel
latitude of the spot being 63. 45. south, and
longitude GO. west, being the most southern
yet known.
handsome
land
which
,bonito.lhave :
a e
re of tle rock,
is
sur-
rounded with numerous icebergs of immense
size, from 300 to 400 feet in height, and up-
wards of 1,000 feet in length—pretty consider-
able masses, I presume, to come in contact with.
We put into the harbour of Deception Island,
as horrid, dreary, and wretched a place as the
imagination can conceive, the very portal of Pan-
demonium,—an island of black ashes and cin-
ders, covered with mountains of iee and snow,
—not a vestige of vegetation,—horror of hor-
rors. Here we tarried two months, to our great
discomfiture and annoyance. There are myriads
of millions of penguins, which, in the absence
of other food, we were obliged to eat. The
around in some parts is covered to the extent of
two or three miles with these birds. The flesh
is black, and at best it is little superior to dog's
meat."

PRESENT STATE OF TURKEY,---" WC Coll
gratulatc Mr. MAcntanalat," observes a critical writer,
" on the production of his delightful and instructive work,
' Constantinople in 1528,' of which it is saying but little
to say, that it abounds in interest; it 'is full of information
of the most varied and itnprtant charzeter, and presents
a minute and faithful portraiture of a nation with whom it
is of so much consequence that we should be well acquaint-
ed. From the beginning to the end there is not a single
page that do -s not amuse while it informs ; his anecdotes
are the most recherche imaginable, his descriptions vivid
in the extreme, and whether his work is read for amuse-
ment or information, the result to the reader will, we are
nvinctd, prove equally satisfactory."