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] the amount of fines, and collects their produce. In conequence of this regulation, pecuniary punihments are the only ones inflicted upon thoe who are able to pay: the ret he always orders to be whipped.

25th. I employed this day in taking a view of the Table Mountain, which derives its appellation from the horizontal plain which its ummit preents when een at a ditance.

I had frequently to cros a brook that flows down this mountain. The large tones, rounded by friction, that are found on its hore, hew that in the rainy eaon the water decends in torrents.

About half way up the mountain I found the theium trictum. A little higher up I met with the magnificent umbelliferous plant, called by botanits hermas depauperata, the beautiful fern, acrotichum pectinatum; the bubon galbanum, the retio implex, &c.

That portion of the mountain which I had hitherto acended, was compoed of greyih freetone, very hard, and covered with maes of a fine white-coloured quartz, which erved as a bais to everal very cloe trata of micaceous chitus.

Having acended upwards of 350 toies perpendicular height, I arrived at a fiure in the ide of the mountain, which, when een from the town, does not appear to afford a paage to the um- mit;