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TRAV}:LS IN AFRICA.an area entered by a single gateway.here.Thehorse·shoe style is prescrvedProceeding thence, the escort came to a nne lake of excellent water,of the extent of (probably) six hundredacres, by the side whereof, onthe mud, for thewater had considerably receded, a woodcock was (June)féeding.~Hereit was thewish of the European party to have halted ;chiefly indeed to try~ induced by the noveltyof the sight, what theycould do witbtheir guna: ·bût the alcaid insisted on proceeding an hourfurther ; which was in consequence done, andllaltcaHed in a bog.Tothis arrangementthe Christians on their parts asstrenuously objeeted.Halfan bou1' further was consequently marched; and we dismountedfor the Di:ght in a delightful spot, to the eye at least, by the side of asmaller Jake.Thé country during the route of yesterdsy was plain, or slightly un...dulated in very extensive easy swells: it was weIl cultivated in parts,and elsewhere promised in the due season abundance ofgrass. But the,richness of the tract which pres€mted itseJf during the entire course ofthisday excèeds aU imagination or parallel. Of course here littleinterestillg presents itself to the geologist. The soil to any depth thatean he turned up is a soft, black, vegetable mould, apparently the decompositionofredundant organized matter for a succession ofages. TheeaI'th has a soap:y feel, and on it is frequently seen an aluminocus or nitrouseffiorescence:it produces crops lb. the luxuriancy that may besupposed, and to aU appearance would do so in eternal succession:wnere fn friche, which isoften the case fo.r the whole extent of awide horizon, rank weeds now in full yellow blossonl, wild mustard orfennel wave over it in one vast glnw, loading the air with their effiuYia,and raising their heads to aheight ofeven nve feet; so thata foot-man1S nearly lost in this fores! ofannuaIs, \vhich ~choke aIl wholesome vege-