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resque Hauvv-Hoek Pass and Sir Lowry's Pass ; the latter is 

 very steep, and parts of it are hardly, if at all, inferior in ex- 

 tent and variety of landscape to those presented by the Styrian 

 Alps. At the culminating point of the latter pass, which sur- 

 passes even Paine's Kloef in height and width, one stands as upon 

 the ruins of a lofty tower, from which the eye can range at will 

 over the entire country beneath. South-east and eastward 

 towers the Hauw-Hoek Pass, while southwards and westwards 

 the charming Lowry's Vale, and far in the distance the smiling 

 settlement of Somerset- West come into view, while all around, 

 farther than the eye can reach, are luxuriant pasturages, that 

 only wait to be settled and cultivated in order to produce mag- 

 nificent returns. 



Somerset-West, a prettily-built, and very charmingly situated 

 settlement, already supports so considerable a traffic with the 

 capital, that a daily omnibus has proved a remunerative specu- 

 lation to the promoters. 



We now proceeded to Zandvliet, the property of one of the 

 oldest and most highly considered families in the colony, named 

 Cloete, where we spent the night. With these genial kindly 

 people we soon felt ourselves as entirely at home as if with our 

 own families ; we sang, laughed, and frolicked, till far into 

 the night. 



The following morning we drove to a hill, about a mile* 

 and a half distant from Zandvliet, known as Macassar Downs, 

 on which is the spot of interment, (Krammat or Brammat), of 

 a Malay prophet. 



