276 Mr. masson’s Botanical travels. 
journey that I colle&ed the feed of the many beautiful 
ipecies of erica, which, I find, have fucceeded fo well in 
the Royal Garden at Kew. 
SECOND JOURNEY. 
^ 1^76 2 2> 1VT Y ^ econ ^ j oume y was performed in com- 
L ▼ A pany with Dr. thunberg, a native of 
Sweden ; who was fent out by the Dutch to collect plants 
at the Cape, and is on that errand now in the Dutch Eaft 
Indies. 
I 1 . ? , 
Sept. 11, 1773, We left the Cape Town, directing; 
our courle along the N.W. Coaft. We paffed the Blue 
Mountains ; but the weather proving rainy, and attended 
with a fog, we loll our intended road, and were obliged 
to lodge that night in the fields. 
1 ath, We came to Groene Kloof, a place belonging to 
the Eaft-India-Company, where we remained feveral 
days, the weather being rainy and unfettled; during 
which time we made feveral excurfions along the fides 
of the hills, and alfo over a large fandy defart towards 
the fea fhore; where we found a great variety of beautiful 
plants, and feveral animals peculiar to this climate ; viz. 
antelopes, oftriches, and plovers of feveral forts. 
1 9th, From Groene Kloof we paffed a fmall hill, called 
Konter Berg; and from thence entered a large barren 
country, named Zwart Land («). The earth is a grey fand, 
(o) Black Land. 
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