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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
jinf' eight in the evening, forty-two. At night we came to a 
^—’ farm on the Breed Rivier. 
The weather was fo bad on the twenty-ninth, that we conM 
not proceed ; but during the day I was able to make an ex- 
curfion towards the hills, where I found fome very curious 
plants. 
A gentleman, who came from the weflward, advifed us not 
to proceed any farther in that direction, as it would not be 
poffible to crofs the rivers for many days, the mountains being 
covered very deep with fnow ; the melting of which would 
keep them very high. The accounts he gave us were fo un¬ 
favourable, that I agreed to return and to crofs the mountains 
at another place to the eaftward, called Plata Kloaf, where we 
arrived on the eighth of July, 
We croffed the mountains with fome difficulty, on the 
tenth, and entered a country, (which I had occahon to notice 
in my firft journey) called Channa Land. From this place we 
proceeded to the weflward, and in the courfe of our day’s 
journey I added greatly to my colleftion of the Mezembryan- 
thimum tribe. In the evening we came to a hot bath, which 
appeared to be much the fame in its qualities with thofe 
already mentioned; only more temperate. The heat of the 
bath, by the thermometer, is one hundred and feven ; and 
where it fprings out of the rock, one hundred and ten. We 
Rayed here a few days, and dlfpatched our waggon early in 
the morning of the thirteenth, having a very long day’s jour- 
