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our climate; but when we arrived at its top, we found 
nothing but a few grafTes, rejliones , elegia ; the whole 
mountain confifting of rock, lying in horizontal Jira~ 
ta r without any fort of earth, except a little decayed 
rock in which the grades grew. From the foot of this 
mountain to its fummit is a good day’s journey, it 
being very rugged and difficult to mount. We found 
many curious plants growing along the borders of the 
ftreams, which run in great plenty down the mountain’s 
fide. Rood Land is a fine level country, furrounded 
on all fides by lofty mountains, except on the Eaft, where 
the valley continues for feveral days journey inclofed 
by mountains on each fide. Thofe on the Northern fide 
•continue for feveral hundred miles in an oblique di- 
redlion, and terminate on the Eaftern coaft. This coun- 
try produces corn and wine in abundance, and moft of 
our European fruits, which have been planted there by 
the new inhabitants, who are defendants of the 
French refugees; a civil, hofpitable, and induftrious 
people. 
.38th, 29th, We continued our journey along the 
banks of the Broad River, where we collected many re- 
markably fine flowers, particularly one of the filaceous 
kind, with a long fpikeof pendulous flowers, of agreenifli 
azure colour, which among the long grafs had an ad- 
mirable effect (this is ixia viridis j> 
30th, We eroded the Hexen Rivier (Witches River), 
which has a paflage through the mountains, and joins 
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