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TRAVELS IN 
pains are beflowecl to keep up a fucceffion of young trees. No 
further trials have yet been made for coal. 
In the firft chapter of the former volume, I fuggefxed feveral 
articles that appeared to be fuitable to the climate of the Cape, 
and in the laft chapter mentioned the fuccefs that had attended 
the trial of many of them. Since that was written I had an op- 
portunity, among many other Englilh gentlemen, of giving a 
fair trial to the common Lucern, the Medicago fativa^ and found 
it to anfwer beyond all expectation, whether thinly ibwn in 
drills or tranfplanted. It was cut down and grew again, to the 
height of eighteen inches every fix weeks throughout the year, 
except in the months of July, Auguft, and September, when it 
remained nearly ftationary. Mr. Duckett, the agriculturift, 
found the common burnet, Puter'ium Sanguijorha^ to fiicceed 
equally well on dry grounds. The advantages of thefe two 
plants, as fummer food for cattle and fheep, would be incal- 
culable to a people who knew how to avail themfelves of them, 
and in a country where all verdure difappears for four months 
in the year. But it may be obferved, with regard to the in- 
trodudion of thefe and other foreign articles, that until a fuller 
population of white inhabitants lliall oblige them to habits of 
induftry, it would be in vain to exped: any encouragement to 
additional refources, or improvement of thofe they have long 
pofftffed. 
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