1811. 
AT THE KARRO POORT. 
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wards, when I re-entered the same botanical parallel at Komtnedakka 
and Zwartwater Poort, lying in the same latitude as the Karro Pass, 
but at six degrees of longitude more to the eastward. The Heath 
mentioned in this list was, I believe. Erica Plukenetii. This elegant 
tribe had attended me the whole way from Cape Town, till now that 
I was arrived at the very door of the desert; beyond which the 
scorching heat rendered it impossible for them to exist : and it 
seemed as if this handsome species had accompanied me till the last 
moment, to take a long farewell in the name of the whole family. 
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