9 »2 
The author fnifhes his account with 
a very loag-ard circum@antial catalogue 
of the natural produ€ions cf the ifland, 
which are much more numereus than 
would be imagined. 
Io ihe Editor of the Mouthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
| a oes been prevented from fee- 
ing your September Magazine at 
the ufual time, I was unable to give an 
earlier reply to the infinustion of Mr, 
Dyer, p. 623, refpecting my being the au- 
thor, or inrerefted in the author{hi ipot Mr. 
Simeon’s Skeletons. I therefore beg you 
wiil do me tke juftice to admit my explicit 
difayowal of any connection whatever with 
the woik in queftien, and to confider 
that in what I faid in my former letter, I 
He ro other object in view than merely 
hat of fiating what appeared tome a plain 
a uth. Much as I refpect Mr. Simeon’s 
eal in the caufe of piety, and m uch as I 
aati re the truly eee principles by 
which he is aStwated, I mui neverthelefs 
moit uneguivecaliy ceclare ae it was as 
far fron my intention, as itis remote from 
my withes, to do any thing that might in 
the flighteft degree’ tend to difcredit your 
jnfructive mi‘cellany. 
_ Your-candid and ingenious correfpon- 
dent, Chariclo, p. 797, will, I tru#t, ex- 
eufe me for differing from him, with re- 
{pest to the meaning of Antinomiani{m. 
The {& to which he alludes, is furely 
difting& from that which Mr. Evans de- 
fignates by theterm Antinsmians. This 
author clearly appears to me to be fpeak- 
ing of thofe enthufiafica} religionifds, who, 
in their over zealous attachment to the 
doftrine of the imputed rjighteoufsefs of 
Chrif, as the procuring caufe of falvation, 
fall into the error of wh» lly difcarding 
moral excellence, a4 requifite to, or con- 
necied with, their jufiificaticn. 
Nov. 16, 1799. Your’s, &c 
R. H. Cc. 
ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ON TRANSPLANTING THE CAMEL TO 
THE CaPE OF GOUD HOPE; AND ON 
THE ADVANTAGES TO BE THENCE 
EXPECTED IN FACILITATING THE 
EXPLORING OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, 
AND OPENING A COMMERCIAL INe 
TERCOURSE WITH THE NATIVES, 
[ By ee Eeeren of Gottingen. | 
“you VER little we known of o 
i Paths divifion of Africa, (for h 
jnlignificant is the part vilited by Spark: 
On tranjplanting the Camel to the Cape. 
[Jan. f, 
man, Le Vaillant, and others, compared 
with the immenfe extent of the whole re- 
gion?) yet it would appear, that the ex- 
ploration of it is attended with fewer and 
Jefs difficulties than that of North Africa. | 
N.» far-ftretching fandy deferts, no bands 
of Mocrifh rcbbeis, here opp ole the pio- 
grefs cf the traveller: if he only chocfe 
the proper feafon of the year, !e pafies 
through a moft charming and delightful 
country, and is fure of being received 
with triendSip and hofpitality by the na- 
tives, as {von as he learns the proper man. 
ner of treating men of their fimplicity of 
manners, Notwithfanding thele advan- 
tuges, CC mparatively few difeov ertes have 
there been made: nor wag this owing to 
a want of enter prife and perfeverance in 
the travellers; but evidently to another 
circumflance, which confiantly hindered 
them from proceeding with celerity, and ~ 
at laft forced them to return: viz. the 
want of proper beaits of burthen. 
All the travellers who have penetrated 
into thole regions, were under the necef- 
Ge of ufing large wag gons drawn by 
oxen, and very foon felt grievous incon- 
veniences and difficulties from the hillinefs 
of the co Oe from the want of freth wa- 
ter, and other obftru€tions. If we fup- 
pofe, that they could have performed their 
journeys with camels, as in North Africa 
and in Afia, all thefe difficulties immedi- 
ately vanifi ! 
It certain'y cannot be denbled that the 
camel would thrive at the Cape of Good 
Hope: it isthe proper climate for that 
animal, which probably will Bue as great 
a degree of perfection in 35° of fouth la- 
titude, as we find it does in the 35° of - 
north latitude in Syria. 
However, the exp! Joring of the interior 
of Africa is not the fole advantage to be 
derived from the introdu@ion cf the camel 
at the Cape: how ferviceasle would not 
fo excellent a beaft of burden prove tothe ° 
col.nifts! whofe habitations are in part 
fiituated at a great difiance inland from the 
capital, and whofe only mode of convey- 
ing | thither the produce of their farms, at 
prefent ts, with waggonst drawn by a great 
number of oxen. 
But what chiefly deferves attentionis, 
that-by means cf the camel a commercial 
intercourfe may be opened with the in- 
terior countries ef South Africa. It is 
certain that the fouthern divifion of this 
quarter of the globe is far more rich in 
productions than the northern. Why, 
then, may not Cape-town one day become 
the centre of a’commerce, whofe future 
extent it is now impoffible-to calculate ? 
Buty 
