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to that place was precisely the same as that of his predecessors, 

 but on his retnrn he came down a northern branch of the 

 Orange River or Gariep, which he calls the Malalareen, now 

 more generally known as the Hart-river, a favorite and the 

 chief residence of the Corana Hottentot tribes; this stream, 80 

 miles long, is said to rise from a considerable lake, in which 

 Hippopotami are most abundant in about lat. 29, and long. 25o. 

 26. 



Dr. Campbell was also the first to visit the junction of that 

 river with the Ky-Gariep, as well as the confluence of the 

 Maap, Modder, or muddy river, another branch from the 

 southward, named by him the Alexander ; and the Vaal, Yellow 

 or Nu-Gariep, called by him the Cradock, with the principal 

 stream the Gariep itself, the Great River par excellence, ac- 

 cording to the native designation, and the Orange-river of 

 Col. Gordon ; this main stream he traced along to the Mis- 

 sionary Institution of Pella, about half a degree from the coast, 

 a desert route of 400 miles, never before visited, but devoid of 

 anything like interest, especially to an unscientific traveller. 



BuRCHELL, an indefatigable, able, and generally accom- 

 plished genius, visited the same country at the same period as 

 the last-mentioned gentleman, and made great acquisitions in 

 various branches of natural history, in a region he considers 

 entirely new. His intention was to have penetrated to Beu- 

 guela or Loando, St. Paul on the western coast, but the alarms 

 and refusal of his people prevented the execution of this bold 

 and extensive plan of exploration. On his arrival at Klaar- 

 water, or Griqua Town, in lat. 28. 50. and long. 24. 10, the 

 principal seat of the Bastard or mixed race, finding his suite 

 too small to carry on his journey, and obstacles being placed 

 in the way of his attempt to induce the Griquas to join him 

 by the resident Missionaries, he conceived the idea of return- 

 ing to the colony to procure fresh assistants through an entirely 

 new route, that from Klaarwater to the village of Graaff"Reinet, 

 which had never been trodden by white feet. This, from 

 the most narrow policy of the Missionaries, who dreaded the 

 effects of a nearer connexion with the Colony upon the 

 morals of their flock, and the possibility of the Colonists pos- 

 sessing themselves of the wild country into which the Griguas 

 had themselves intruded, was represented by them as impossi- 

 ble, from the ferocious character of the inhabitants, and the 

 mountainous nature of the intervening space. But un- 

 daunted by these unfavorable reports, Burchell set out, and 

 succeeded with comparative ease in connecting that part of the 

 Interior with the Colony by a nearly direct route, and a 

 regular post road has consequently been established to the 

 Griqua and Bechuana people in this direction, to the exclusion 



