Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0664
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[Page 664]
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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope
[Margin note] Desart
days journey & told that he had better have left them with his next neighbour "Neighbour said he my nearest neighbour lives 5 days Journey from me
Nor does the Countrey immediately in the neighbourhood of the Cape give any reason to Contradict the idea of immence barrenness which must be formd from what I have said the Countrey in general is either bare rock shifting sand or grounds coverd with heath &c. like the Moors of Derbishire Yorkshire &c. except the very banks of the few rivulets where are a few plantations cheifly employd if well shelterd in raising Garden stuff & if rather less so in vineyards but if expos'd nothing can stand the violence of the winds which blow here through the whole summer or dry season
[Margin note] Tree
during my whole stay I did not see a tree in its native soil so tall as myself indeed Housekeepers complain of the Dearnes of