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] Beyond the farther end of the bay there is a vat plain of and, on which one is urpried to ee a prodigious number of plants vegetating. The mot frequent are various pecies of the dioma, polygala, and borbonia. Thee plants, however, would not be able to upport themelves in o barren a oil, if they did not hoot their roots to a great depth into the ground, o as there to imbibe the moiture neceary for their vegetation.

I had to cros everal brooks, which take their rie from the neighbouring mountains, and ome of which are lot in the ands before they dicharge themelves into the ea. In thee moit ituations I found the beautiful hrub, genthyllis piralis.

The fiures in the and erve as places of helter for the nakes, which one frequently finds leeping upon their borders; but as oon as one approaches them they immediately fly to their lurking-places for refuge.

27th. I reolved to make a econd viit to the Table Mountain. I went a little off from the common path, and enriched my collection with everal plants which I had not een before. Indeed it required a coniderable length of time to exhaut all the botanical tores of a country which produces uch an abundance of vegetables. A thick