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faft, formed confiderable plantations of It, whicli 
have become of great ufe to them for fewel. 
I obferved that this tree was not to be met with 
in any other place of the colony, not even iti 
the Nimiqua landj from which Mr, Sparmann 
very falfely fuppofes that it was brought. I 
can affirm that it does not grow there ; and I 
never obferved it in any of the other canton^ 
into which I penetrated. For this reafon I 
am of opinion that it was carried from fome 
other part of Africa, or of the world ; though 
M. Sonnerat, in his laft voyage to the Indies, 
alTures us that it is the only tree originally 
found at the Cape. It appears that this natu- 
ralift never faw the mimofa miotic a ^ which is 
very common there, as well as a number of 
other fpecies much more valuable. 
The plantations of Stellembofch^ Dragejlein^ 
Franfche-Hoeci^ the' Pearly and Hottentot Hol- 
land, are different cantons, fituated between 
the Cape and that great chain of mountains 
perceived on the eaft. They fupply all the 
refl with fruits and wine* 
Stellembofch is a fmall village to which fe* 
veral of the inhabitants of the Cape have re- 
tired, and where they cultivate their land 
Vol. I. H themfelves, 
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