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coft in Paris — In fail, it cime into my poflTelliou in Bri- 

 tain, happily, without adult ration ; — but nut v/ichouC 

 fome bfakaje and embezzlement on, the pafTagc. — I 

 have occafionally regaled my friends with a bottle of 

 it. — When finifhed, I defjiair to have ao;ain fo exquifite 



zhonlot'che forilieir entertainment Theprofpecrs and 



environs of this town are delightful ; — for a great part 

 of this day'.H jousney, the country is mountainous ; — 

 we faw few vines, and poor crops of corn — I obferye, 

 that plantations of foreft trees would thrive well ; — but 

 they xre quire neglcdled. — In fome of the low grounds, 

 tfpecially on the borders of rivulets, my favourite pop- 

 ears make a charming figure, and again invite me to an 

 lexperiment at home. 



"To be contiMued. 



Defcription of the Plate. 



The plate that accompanies this number reprefcnts a 

 fcene in Caffraria, near the Cape of Good Hope. The 

 principal objeft in it is a large tree, the Mimofa Nilo- 

 tica, which grows to a very large fize, and is here ef. 

 teemed one of the moft valuable produftions of the 

 earth. Moft of the trees of this genus produce gurws, 

 that are ufeful in arts, and which may be occafionallv 

 ufed for food ; but none of them produce gum in fucii 

 abundance, or of fuch a nutricious quality as the Nilo- 

 tica. This fnbftance, whicli the natives col!e6l with 

 care, and prcferve as a principal part of their food, fup- 

 plies, in fome me^fure, the place both of fruit and of 

 grain. It grows in great abundance all over this dlf- 

 trift and the adjacent countries, but never Ikis 

 yet been cultivated in any other country; neither is it 

 yet known, if the gum this plant alTords could be ap- 

 U^ied to any ufe in art^, nor has its nutricious quclitv. 

 ,whcn compared with that of ether kinds of food, been 



