and greatly relieving the attention of the reader. Having; mentioned this, we will no longer trefpafs on the reader’s time and patience, but leave this work, which, to ufe the words of Mr. G eorge F o r ster , the author’s friend and German editor, is adapted to every clafs o f readers* in the hands of its belt judge and prote&or, the Public.. I N T R O D U C T I O N , IN the month of September I had occaiion to think of making a voyage to the fouthernmoft promontory of Africa. What gave rife to this delign, was the following circumftance. The ingenious Captain E k e b er g , who never negledls any opportunity o f promoting the interefts of fcience, 'had, during a fhort vifit he had made to the Cape of Good Hope, made it his bufinefs, to obtain permiilion to fend thither a natural hiftorian. But in order that this perion, in the courfe-of his re- fearches after plants, infedts, . and other objedts o f his inquiry,: might not run the rifque o f being coniidered as a fpy on the country and its government, and at the fame time that he might compafs his intentions with as little expence as poilible, it was agreed that he ihould inftruct a. . • the
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