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short distance. In the view shown in Plate VI. , taken 

 on the west side of the Schurfteberg (north) anticline 

 (Cold Bokkeveld), looking south, the escarpment of the 

 fossiliferous sandstone is seen on the right of the road as 

 a low ridge, and also on the horizon. The top of the 

 Table Mountain series is seen on the left of the picture 

 as a long slope with one slight protuberance ; the lowest 

 part of the ridge, at a spot above which some more dis- 

 tant hills appear, is formed by the lowest shales of the 

 Bokkeveld that also occupy the flat valley in which 

 the road lies ; the higher groups of sandstone beds in 

 the Bokkeveld series make ridges on the horizon, but 

 the fourth sandstone is very slightly marked ; the high 

 mountain on the right is the outlier of Witteberg beds 

 named Tafel Berg. Plate VII., taken at Eiet Eiver in 

 the Cold Bokkeveld, illustrates the succession on the 

 east side of the Cederberg anticline ; in the foreground 

 is the Table Mountain sandstone dipping east under the 

 Bokkeveld of the high hills (Blink Berg) in the middle 

 of the picture, which are capped by the Witteberg beds. 

 The top of these hills is about 2,000 feet above the 

 bottom of the valley. The four groups of sandstone in 

 the Bokkeveld series appear as kranzes on the face of 

 Blink Berg, and the three lower ones are well seen on 

 the sky-line. The position of the shales below the 

 fossiliferous sandstone is almost invariably marked by a 

 valley along which a road runs. This is the case along 

 the Cederbergen and Cold Bokkeveld Mountains, in the 

 Hex River Valley, in the country north of the Zwarte- 

 bergen, and in much of the country between the Hex 

 River Valley and the Gouritz River Poort. The fossils 



