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I employed the next day in fearching for plants and in- 1776. 
fedts about Stehenbofh, but bad little fuccefs. Few plants , Novanber ; 
are in flower here at this feafon, and infedls but fcarce. I Sunday 17. 
examined the foil in feveral places, and found it to confifl 
of yellowifh clay, mixed with a good deal of fand. The 
lides of the low hills, which appear brown, feem to be con- 
llituted of a fort of flone marie. 
We left Stellenbofh next morning, and foon arrived at Monday is. 
the houfe we had paffed on Saturday ; the owner of which, 
Mr. Cloeder, had fent us an invitation, the evening before, 
to vifit him. This Gentleman entertained us with the 
greatefl hofpitality, and in a manner very different from 
what w r e expected. He received us with mufic; and a band 
alfo played while we were at dinner; which, confidering 
the fituation of the place, might be reckoned elegant. He 
file wed us his wine-cellars, his orchards, and vineyards ; all 
which, I muff own, infpired me with a wifh to know in 
what manner thefe induflrious people could create fuch 
plenty, in a fpot where, I believe, no other European nation 
would have attempted to fettle. 
In the afternoon we croffed the country, and paffed a few 
plantations, one of which feemed very confiderable, and was 
laid out in a taffe fomewhat different from any other we 
faw. In the evening we arrived at a farm-houfe, which is 
the firfl in the cultivated trad! called the Pearl. We had, at 
the fame time, a view of Drakenffein, the third colony of 
this country, which lies along by the foot of the lofty hills 
already mentioned, and contains feveral farms or planta¬ 
tions, not very extenfive. 
I went, on the 19th in die forenoon, in quell of plants Tuefday 19. 
and infedls, which I found almoll as fcarce as at Stellen¬ 
bofh ; hut I met with more fhrubs or fmall trees, naturally 
G 2 produced. 
