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these cliffs, and overflow all the surrounding country. It 
rises in the Sneeuwbergen, about 32° S. lat., flows by Graaff 
Reynet, and across the easternmost part of the Great Karroo, 
and falls into Algoa Bay. 
April 13.—For several miles E. of the Sunday river, the 
country is hilly and rather picturesque, and entirely covered 
with very thick bush, of much taller growth than what I had 
previously seen, though of the same nature. Most of the 
shrubs here exceed the height of a man, and there are 
plenty of trees, though not of great size. Trees and shrubs 
alike are loaded in a strange way with a whitish thready 
Lichen,* hanging down in tangled bunches of extraordinary 
length. It is the very same which encumbers in a similar 
manner the scattered trees on the Campas of Brazil. In this 
day's journey I first saw the beautiful, glossy, dark-green 
Starling which Le Vaillant calls nadirop and which is abun- 
dant on the Caffer frontier. This tract of bush near the Sun- 
day river, is called the Addo or Adow bush. From the high 
grassy table-land beyond it, known by the name of the Addo 
heights, we saw distinctly, though at a distance of more than 
50 miles, the bold outline of the Wintershoek or Kuruka 
mountain, which is a conspicuous object from Algoa Bay, and 
by reason of its isolated situation and remarkable form, con- 
stitutes a good landmark for ships. The sailors call it the 
Coxcomb mountain, a name which gives a good idea of its - 
outline. We saw it first from near the Camtoos, and had had 
it more or less in view every day since we crossed that river. 
Traversing the Quagga Flats, wide, open, grassy plains 
which formerly abounded with various kinds of the larger 
game, we reached the Bushman's river, the boundary of 
Uitenhage and Albany, where we spent the night at a com- 
fortable little inn. There is some bush, and (April 14) rather 
pretty scenery, in the neighbourhood of the river; to which 
succeed huge, green, treeless, round-backed hills, almost 
mountains in point of magnitude, but utterly unpicturesque.- 
* Usnea florida and plicata. 
