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THE TABLE MOUNTAIN SANDSTONE 



valley of the Olif ant's River, from its source west of 

 the village of Ceres to a point below 

 Clanwilliam, occupies a syncline in 

 which remnants of the Bokkeveld 

 beds are still preserved at three 

 places. South of Pikenier's Kloof 

 the western limb of the anticline 

 west of the river has mostly been 

 removed by denudation, and the 

 sandstones of the Olifant's River, 

 Twenty-four Rivers and Roode 

 Zand Mountains, and of the moun- 

 tains still farther south along the 

 same line, called the Drakensteins, 

 and of those between French Hoek 

 and Hangklip, form a long rugged 

 escarpment, deeply embayed at 

 French Hoek and Jonker's Hoek by 

 the head-waters of the Berg and 

 Eerste Rivers. 



Northwards from Clanwilliam 

 the Table Mountain sandstone is 

 very slightly folded, but dips at a low 

 angle eastwards, and its western 

 edge is a fine escarpment, called the 

 Nardouw Berg, Gift Berg, the 

 Matsiekamma (Plate IV.), Kobe, and 

 Bokkeveld Mountains in different 

 parts as it is followed to the north (see 

 Figs. 2 and 6). The escarpment is 

 cut far back by the Troe-Troe River, 



