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females, the tulks of which weighed a third 
more. 
This extraordinary bulk in animals inhabit- 
Ing a country fo fierile, and that afFords only 
brackifh waier, excited in me confiderable 
aftonifhment. I obl'erv^d, too, that the cattle 
of Bafter were remarkably large and ftrong. 
This double fad: led liie to a very fimple re- 
fledion. While I travcrfed, in my preced- 
ing journey, the country of the Caffres and 
the land of Auteniqua, I every where beheld 
enchanting fpots, paftures always green, and 
magnificent forefls with rivers and brooks in 
abundance ; no country Indeed could in ap- 
pearance be more favourable to graminivo- 
rous animals, whether wild or tame : never- 
thelefs they are there flow in growth, and 
never attain more than a middUng fize and 
ftature. On the contrary, in the country ia 
which I now was, the breeds both of wild and 
tame animals Were extraordinarily large ; not- 
withftanding w^ater, befides its brackiflmefs 
which 1 have already had too much occafion 
to -notice, was very fcarce, and its dry fands 
afforded only meagre plants, with a fort of 
grafs 
