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Lion-Riv€r, I had encamped near another^ 
lefs pungent, It is true, but yet of the fam^ na- 
ture. 
I fliall add here, by the bye, that I have met 
with feveral chalybeate waters, and others 
which appeared to me from the tafte either 
cupreous or vitriolic : and, if refearches of this 
kind had poflefied any attrafiions for me, I 
fhould probably have found fomething very 
different ftill ; for I was in the parts where 
difcoveries were really to be made, and Kol- 
ben, as I have faid before, never quitted 
thofe where every thing had already been dif- 
covered. 
All the country that borders on the right 
bank of Lion-River is a quartzofe rock^ 
which in certain places includes iron, copper^ 
and even cryftals of a very fine water ; and in 
others, approaching to the nature of granite, it 
contains white and yellow micas. 
During thefe four days, I had amufed my« 
felf on the road with culling thefe different 
produftions, which I carefully added to my 
colledion. My Hottentots, who had feen me 
little attentive to any thing but fubjeds of the 
animal kingdonij were furprifed at the care I 
tQok 
