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Discovery Simon's Bay
Cape of Good Hope
Aug 10th 1791

Sir Joseph

We are now preparing to leave this place after about a month's stay, during which I have enjoyed much pleasure in my Botanical pursuits, through this apparently dreary country, but to me richer than any garden, in the vast variety of its vegetable productions, for whether I traversed the sandy scorching plains or clambered up the craggy ridges of Mountains, every situation afforded to my mind something new or rare - for even many Genera with which I was

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