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fome gentle exercife, to recover my flrengtli, 
I had defired already to fee my phyficlan; my 
firft excurfion was to gather and examine with 
him the pbnt he had employed in my cure. 
Nothing in the country is more common : 
it is to be met with every where ; and he 
ihowed it to me all round my camp. It Is a 
fpecles of fage, growing about two feet high, 
and nearly of the cofour of our common fage, 
but with a fmoother kaf. I could not be cer- 
tain of the colour of the flower, becaufe it was 
the feafon when it begins to ivither a^d dry j 
tut I believe it to be blue^ 
Swanepoel, when he faw the plant, conceiv-? 
ed it to be perfedly familiar to him. He af- 
fured me it was equally common in the colony 
and at the Cape, where it wa^ knowrj by the 
Dutch name of foaly (fage). But botanifts 
have comprifed fo many different plants under 
the general name of fage, that I know not tq 
what family the Jaa/y of the Cape belongs. 
As the planters never employ it in fore 
throats, which are one of the fcourges of their 
climate, it is probable they are unacquainted 
with its virtues : or it is more likely that 
gwanepoel, mifled by fome external refem- 
blance 
