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beforehand which, ten leagues farther ftill, will 
perhaps not bloffom in lefs than two months. 
In Africa, nature is always alive, and her adtion 
never benumbed by cold : but it is necefTary 
to be on the watch for her ; and the botanift 
who traverfes the country, without refiding in 
It a confiderable time, muft expect only the 
fortune of the day, and will of courle bring 
away with him no other collection than what 
is afforded hiin by chance. 
At the Cape are daily proofs of what I have 
faid. The colonies have long ago been vifited 
by amateurs of flowers and Ikilful botariifls ; 
yet every new comer finds fomething with 
which to enrich his garden or his herbal. As 
it happens, perhaps, that no one arrives at 
the fame place, under the fame circumftances, 
and at the fame period as another, each meets 
with plants which they who preceded him 
neither knew nor had the power of knowing. 
The two naturalifts I mentioned above have 
enriched fcience by new difcoveries, though 
they came after fo many others. 
Though the majoiity of thefe fucceflivc- 
journeys were made in a fhort fpace of time, 
they have contributed neverthelefs to extend 
our 
