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my hopes were not deceived. We carried on 

 board an ample flock of it, which was received 

 With joy by navigators who felt the ncceffity of 

 counteracting, by the ufe of vegetables, the bad 

 effects of the fait provisions, on which we had 

 lived in the pafTage from the Cape of Good 

 Hope to Cape Diemen. A rivulet, Situated to 

 the weft ward of the lake, there carried its limpid 

 waters, in which we foaked the little bifcuitwe 

 had remaining. 



It was not eafy, after fo long a walk, to return 

 to our Ships, pafling through foreSts which we 

 had not before viSited. It would have been dan- 

 gerous to lofe our way, as we had but a final 1 

 Hock of proviiions. The fun, which was now 

 well advanced in its courfe, ferved to fiirecl us. 



At firSt we eafily proceeded along a fine plain, 

 where were growing feveral fhrubs of the family 

 of the erica, and of the htu 



Very thick underwood then impeded our pro- 

 grefs. The inequalities of the ground occafion- 

 ally obftru died the courfe of the waters : we were 

 often obliged to crofs marfhes ; but the numerous 

 plants with which they were covered made us for- 

 get the difficulties that occurred in the road. 

 Among the plants which I collected, were two new 

 fpecies of rofafolis ; one of them, which I call 

 drofera bifurca, is remarkable for the lingular form 

 of its leaves ; thefe confifl of two long points, 



Situated 



