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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
travellers of the " wall of China." The western 
coast, for a great distance north from the Orange 
river, and south as far as the Kamiesberg, is of 
the same dreary character. At one place the heat 
rose as high as 101°; the ink grew thick, the water 
warm, and the butter was converted into oil. When 
the Hottentots find the heat increase to an alarm- 
ing degree, they dig the earth or sand till they find 
it cold, and rub themselves over with it, so as*to 
afford a temporary relief. 
Mr Campbell visited Pella, the principal mis- 
sionary station in Nam aqua-land, containing six 
hundred and thirty-six people, who are represent- 
ed as harmless and honest. He then turned his 
steps towards the colony, where he arrived on the 
31st October 1813, after an absence of nine months. 
About the same time with Mr Campbell, Mr 
Burchell traversed the country of the Boshuanas, 
chiefly with a view to observe its natural history. 
Only a short notice of his journey has appeared in 
the Journal of the Royal Institution. On cross- 
ing the Orange river he found the aspect of na- 
ture, and of its productions, entirely changed. In 
zoology, he observed the manis ; a new species 
of rhinoceros ; several of the dog genus and of the 
feline tribe ; a lynx ; many of the genus viverra - 9 
several of the murine kind ; the camelopardalis ; 
live of the horse genus, &c. New birds, la certae, 
