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a species of Mimosa, rising here to the height of fifty feet, 
though it never grows to any considerable height in the 
open plain, but spreads out like a parasol. This tree 
yields, by exudation through fissures in its bark, a great 
quantity of gum, which is as difficult of solution as gum- 
tragacanth. Its bark is employed by the boors for tanning 
leather. In the flowering season, it is a highly ornamental 
tree, its spherical tufts of orange-coloured flowers, presenting 
a striking contrast with its formidable, white, bifurcated 
thorns, and dark-green foliage. 
* For eight or ten miles beyond the Sunday River, the 
wood is so thick, and the path so narrow, that there is 
hardly room for a waggon to pass along; so that when two 
meet, which sometimes happens, all hands are set to work 
with the axe, and clear a recess sufficient to receive one of 
the waggons, so as to let the other pass. "This is one of the 
compensations which tend to equalize the condition of the 
colonist with that of persons of his class in long established 
communities. Both of them are doomed to hard labour - 
But the energies of the latter are exerted solely on produc 
tion; whereas, with the former, the labour of production isa 
subordinate concern; his time and his sweat are expended 
in surmounting the obstacles which nature has scattered in 
the way of production. He has, however, one consolation, 
cares is wanting to the other, he labours for himself, and 
neither landlord, nor tax-gatherer, nor tythe-proctor can 
come forward and claim a share in the fruits of his industry. 
ER Beyond this wood, the country is beautifully diversified 
with clumps of shrubbery, until you arrive at the Quagg?'s 
Plain, which is entirely bare. On the border of the latter Í 
nd a great number of those circles, called in England 
: ‘Fairy Rings? Their area, in general about ten ‘yar 
in diameter, was circumscribed by a ring three feet m 
breadth, of an intensely green colour, and covered with 
. “We found no great variety of game on the plam; 
the great masses of the Antelope tribe having migrated m 
quest of water to other districts. The scarcity of this fluid 
