1810. 
CAMPS BAY. 
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Leaving Dr. Leisching's, we pursued a road cut along the side of 
the Lion Mountain, and soon after opened a view of Camps Bay and 
the western side of Table Mountain, which offered a pleasing subject 
for a sketch. Here a glittering rock on the side of the road attracted 
my notice ; it was a loose granite, containing abundance of mica. 
The great mass of rock, in these mountains, is principally sandstone 
of various degrees of compactness : when red, it is nearly friable ; but 
when white, very hard. Every intermediate kind is occasionally to 
be met with. Of the latter kind, are generally composed the sum- 
mits of these mountains, and, as I afterwards found, of the great 
southern rano;e runnintr from Hottentot Holland to Kromme-river 
bay. Of granite, the quantity is less than that of sandstone ; and of 
schistus, or slate, less than that of granite. 
On our road, we met no one, except a single black man ; all the 
rare productions of these mountains seemed to be our own. We 
descended to Camps Bay, where I soon gathered a rich harvest of 
interesting plants. This excursion produced * a hundred and nine 
Among these, after an examination in 
Cluytia pulchella 
Cissatnpelos Capcnsis 
Mesernhnjcmthomtm 2)omciidiamim 
Wms villosum 
Erica piibcscens 
Buchnera Ethiopica 
Tdragonia fruficosa 
Rottboellia dhnidiata 
Xeranthemum [Elichrysum) sesamoidcs 
Stilbe pinastra 
Berckheya ciliaris 
Blairia ericoides 
Itlms tomentosum, 
Hebenstreitia cordata 
Malva Capensis 
Osteospennian polijgalo'ides 
Echium glabrum 
St achy s JEtliiopica 
Erica brimiildcs 
HeliopJiila linearis 
Lobelia coronopifolia 
evening, were found, 
Polygala [Mtiraltia) stipidacea 
Polycarptmi tetra phylhim 
Sideroxylum inerme 
TJiesium Colpoon [Fusanus compressi's) 
Clijfortia strobilifera 
Periploca Africana 
Glycine bituminosa 
Giumera Pejpensim 
Psoralea bract eat a 
Tanacetum nmltifloinm 
Antholyza nervosa 
Cassytha Jiliformis 
Erica baccans 
Erica ramentacea 
Itlius glaucum 
Gnaphuliwn Jletidnm 
Gnaphalium dcnudatum 
Pencca miicronata 
Erica cerinihoidcs 
Polygala bracteata 
Euclea racemos . 
