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Paine 8 Kloof. 



morning, leads at first through the wide, highly-cultivated 

 Waggonmakers' Valley, adorned with numbers of rich farm- 

 steads (so named from a number of artisans of this handicraft 

 having settled here in former times), after which it passes 

 over the difficult pass called Paine's Kloef, 4000 feet high, 

 which frequently recalled the well-known road over the 

 Sommering Alp, or that at Optschina. This mountain-pass, 

 first completed in 1 853, by the engineer, Mr. Paine, greatly 

 facilitates the traffic between Cape Town and this fertile 

 district, which previously was quite inaccessible, and whose im- 

 mense natural resources are only now beginning to be developed. 



paine's kloef as tt is. 



