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formed by perfons who have a great deal of 
lelfure at their command ; but theoretical cal- 
culations and the principles of optics are above 
their capacity. If it afterwards happen, in the 
courfe of their fports, that they mifs their ob- 
jed, the gun, they fay, does not yet anfwer to 
the level, and the fame operation is performed 
again. 
In the courfe of this expedition I traverfed 
Stellenboch, the whole of Hottentot Holland, 
Draaken-Steyn, Bocke-Veld, Rooye-Zand, the 
canton of the Twenty-four Rivers, and Swart- 
Und. Thefe different countries afforded me 
little that was interefting, except the profpedts, 
and thcfe even, were all inferior in beauty to 
others which I had feen, and particularly to 
that of the Twenty-four Rivers. As to the 
manners of the inhabitants, I have already faid 
that the ihadcs which diftingulfh one canton 
from another are very few and fcarcely dif- 
cernible ; we find every where the fame fimple 
courfe of life, the fame love of eafe, of indo- 
lence and inanity, 
On my return to the Cape, I found that 
Boers had experienced arelapfe of his diforder, 
and had been obliged to refort figain to the baths. 
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