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travelled a change of new beauties. The 
mountains were in many places of stu- 
pendous height, and the valleys, decorated 
with wood, were astonishingly fertile in 
vegetable productions. One of the most 
extensive of these valleys took us no less 
than three days and a half in passing. It 
is called by the settlers Long ClufF, and 
affords, perhaps, as many romantic scenes 
as can be found in any spot of the same 
extent on the face of the earth. 
The hills for seventy or eighty miles 
run parallel to each other. The lands be- 
tween are wonderfully rich, and produce 
vast quantities of a plant similar in its 
smell and taste to our thyme. On this 
fragrant herb are fed immense quantities 
of sheep and cattle : they devour it with 
great eagerness, and it gives the mutton a 
flavour so like our venison, that an epicure 
might be deceived in the taste. The 
valleys are generally level from eight to 
four miles in breadth, and in several places 
intersected with rivulets, on the borders of 
which we frequently perceived whole groves 
of the aloe-tree. 
