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into it ; owing, in part, to the distance at which ships there ride from „ 1S0 V 
° November. 
the land, and apparently, also, from the under-tow passing out on Tuesday 3. 
the eastern side of the bay, clear of the anchoring ground. 
The Cape of Good Hope cannot now be supposed to fur- 
nish much of novelty in the department of natural history, espe- 
cially to transient visitors ; but it still continues to afford much 
amusement and instruction to English botanists. It did so to our 
gentlemen, who were almost constantly on shore upon the search ; 
and their collections, intended for examination on the next passage, 
were tolerably ample. They were sufficiently orthodox to walk 
many miles for the purpose of botanising upon the celebrated Tabie 
Mountain ; for what disciple of Linnaeus could otherwise conscien- 
tiously quit the Cape of Good Hope ? In taking so early a departure, 
though it were to proceed to the almost untrodden, and not less 
ample field of botany, New Holland, I had to engage with the 
counter wishes of my scientific associates ; so much were they de- 
lighted to find the richest treasures of the English green house, pro- 
fusely scattered over the sides and summits of these barren hills. 
