fail to attract the attention of travellers. This lake is a plain 
much above the level of the fea, and between three and four 
miles in circumference. At fome feafons of the year it is 
formed into an entire mafs of fine white fait, which has a very 
ftriking appearance. The heavy rains had diflblved the middle 
part of it, a Ihort time before my arrival, but round the fides 
was a hard cruft of fait exadly refembling ice. 
The adjacent country is covered with variety of fruitefcent 
and fucculent plants, many of which were quite new, in par¬ 
ticular fome of the Euphorbia. Here we were vifited by two 
Caffres, the firft we had feen ; for they very feldom venture 
fo far out of their own country. At night we arrived at a 
place, called by the Hottentots Kow Cha, which is much fre¬ 
quented by Lions, Rhinocerofes and Buffaloes. The foil is of 
a fandy loam, and produces excellent pafture for cattle, but no 
corn ; there is, however, no proof that the land is not fitted to 
produce grain, for no pains is taken, at this diftance from the 
Cape, to cultivate the ground. 
We proceeded, on the twenty-ninth, to the eaftward, tov/ards 
the Sondags Rivier, or Sundays River. The face of the coun¬ 
try, at this place, has a very barren appearance ; but it produces 
a variety of arboreous plants, though very few of any confider- 
able height or fize, which demonftrates the poverty of the 
foil. On our way we faw great numbers of vild Dogs, which 
travel in flocks, and are very deftrucftive v/hen they get where 
there are flocks of fheep. Wild Dogs are alfo found very 
near the Cape. They are much larger than the Jackal, with 
