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It would take a great deal of time to exhauft 

 all the vegetable riches of a country which pro- 

 duces them in fo great variety. A heavy fog 

 fuddenly covered the fummit where I was, and 

 obliged me to come down. Enveloped in i'o 

 thick a mill, it would have been impoffible for 

 me to find my way, had I not been very near the 

 road which led to the foot of the mountain. 

 Although the wind was not high on Table 

 Mountain, the clouds did not the lefs break after 

 they had paffed it, and they became condenled in 

 the fame manner as by the impetuous winds from 

 the fouth-eaft. 



On the 28th I urolled over the environs of the 

 town, and farther increafed my collection of 

 plants. 



I had hitherto found only a fmall number of 

 infects ; for they do not delight in places fo much 

 expofed to the winds. 



On the 29th I made an excursion behind 

 Table Mountain, following the road which fepa- 

 rates it from Lion Mountain. 



The cyanella Capenfis was growing quite clofe 

 to the fea-fhorc. 



As foon as we had reached the heights, I had 

 the pleafure of feeing the declivity of the rocks 

 covered with different fpecies of heaths, among 

 which the erica haiicacaba was diftinguifhable by 

 its oval form and the beauty of its flowers. 



The 



