SOUTHERN AFRICA. 389^ 
Doctor Tjtler, a boy of twelve years of age, he requested 
to have the Latin hues, and immediately produced the 
following stanzas : 
«* Turn'd into fea I've seen the earth 
*' Dissolved in the wave, 
*' And from the sea new hills spring forth, 
*' And their broad backs upheave. 
" And far from ocean's utmost bounds. 
Shells have discover'd been, 
*' And on the tops of rising grounds 
" Old rusty anchors seen." 
In our return over the mountains from Plettenberg's Bay 
little occurred to attract attention. The Sparmannia in the 
woods, with its large leaves of light green, contrasted with 
the dark and slender foliage of the yellow wood tree, and the 
still darker Eckbergia, with the lofty summits of the naked 
mountains rising far above them, afforded scenery for the 
pencil extremely picturesque and beautiful. The fibres of the 
bark of the Sparmannia make an excellent kind of hemp, 
superior in strength to that of the Hibiscus, which I noticed 
on a former visit to this bay. Saplings of this tree the second 
year rise in a clear stem to the height of six feet, so that in 
the event of any future establishment being made at Plet- 
tenberg's Bay, the Sparmannia may become a very useful 
plant. The Gardenia Thiinbergia, or the wild Cape Jessa- 
mine, being in the height of its blossom, gave out so power- 
ful a scent, that, in the evening, it could be perceived at the 
distance of several miles. The Nymphcca cerulea, and an-- 
other species of a smaller size with spear-shaped leaves- 
