Mr. Masson’s Botanical Travels . 
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XVI. An Account of Three Journeys from the Cape Town 
into the Southern Parts of Africa; undertaken for the 
Difcovery of new Plants , towards the Improvement of 
the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. By Mr. Francis 
MafTon, one of his Majejlfs Gardeners . Addreffed to 
Sir John Pringle, Bart . P. R. S. 
TO SIR JOHN PRINGLE, BART. P. R. S. 
s i r, Kew, Nov. 1775. 
R * ^776 19 com pli ance with your requeft, I now fend 
you the account of my firft journey from 
the Cape, which I have tranfcribed from my journal ; 
and if you fliall find it to contain any thing worthy the 
notice of the Royal Society, I beg you would do me the 
honour to prefent it to that illuftrious Body ; and believe, 
that with the great ett pleafure I fhall communicate to 
you and to them the remaining part of my obfcrva- 
tions. 
I am, 8cc. 
