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at ten In the morning we found ourfelves 
clofe to them. This fpring of warm mineral 
water, diftant from the Cape about thirty 
leagues, is generally held in great eftimation. 
Government have caufed a very fpacious and 
convenient building to be eredted here, for 
the ufe of fuch invalids as may be defirous of 
bathing : their lodging, indeed, cofts them 
nothing ; but thefe invalids are obliged to fur- 
nifh their own necefTaries, which is not eafily 
done in a country that affords very few re- 
fources. In this place there are two feparate 
baths, one for the blacks, and another for the 
whites. Near this alfo is fituated that moun- 
tain, called the Tower of Babel, the height of 
which has been fo much exaggerated by Kol- 
ben : it is far from approaching that of the 
Table Mount. Around this place, the com- 
pany, under the aufpices of a corporal, have 
eftablifhed feveral repofitories, where they feed 
all thofe cattle that are necellary for fupplying 
their veffels v/ith provifions. 
Next morning I paffed the river Steenbock^ 
not far from which is a beautiful feat belonging 
to a widow named Wiflel ; and after dinner, 
before I eroded a fecond river called Sonder 
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