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with the reft of the world, will account for its long confinement 
to its native foil. 
That canine madnefs is not owing to heat of climate, as wc 
are apt to fuppofe in England, may be inferred from its non- 
exiftence in Egypt, in the Weft India iflands, and other tropical 
fituations, as well as at the Cape of Good Hope. 
From the banks of the Sunday River to head-quarters in 
Bruyntjes Hoogte, little occurred that was worthy of notice. 
The obfervation I formerly made, that men and other animals 
in Southern Africa appear to increafe in their bulk, in propor- 
tion to the elevation of the country of which they are inha- 
bitants, was forcibly exemplified in our journey from the 
Zuure Veld to Bruyntjes Hoogte. On the plains of the for- 
mer, ftretching along the fea-coaft, feldom fubjed; to long 
drought, and well covered with grafs, tlie cattle are generally 
lean and of a diminutive fize, and flieep will fcarcely cxift, Oa 
the heights of th^ latter, where half th-e furface of the ground 
is naked, and the grafs found only here and there in tufts, they 
have the fineft oxen, without exception, in the whole colony, 
and fheep equal to thofe of the fnowy mountains. Nor are 
.thefe heights lefs favourable to the growth of the human fpecies. 
There is fcarcely a fam.ily in which fome part of it has not ar« 
lived to a very unufual fize. But of all the monftrous beings 
I ever beheld, in the (hape of a human creature, was a woman 
of the name of Van Foore?i» So vaft was her bulk that, al- 
though in perfedl health, free from rheumatic or other local 
complaints, and under forty years of age, flie had not been 
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