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on for years, and in which timber is consequently becoming 

 scarcer, but waggon- wood is still plentiful. 



A little to the east of this is a patch which still con- 

 tains some very large yellow-wood trees; and half-way 

 between this and the mouth of the Faure River, which is 

 still further to the east, is a large patch from which an 

 immense quantity of timber has been cut out of late years, 

 and in which the work is now going on daily. 



In the upper district of the Faure River, skirting its 

 east bank, is a patch, the timber of which has been nearly 

 exhausted, but in which there are an immense number of 

 young trees. And half-way towards its mouth is a patch 

 which has been nearly destroyed by fire. It is a patch of 

 Kuerboom Virgillia capensis ; and there is valuable 

 timber in it. 



A small patch skirted by the Kruis River on the east, 

 has a few yellow-woods close to the river ; but the other 

 timber has been cut out. 



To the north of this, near the source of a tributary of 

 the Kruis River, is a larger patch, from which the timber 

 has been cut out, but in which a few young trees are 

 growing up. 



Below the confluence of this tributary of the Kruis 

 River, traversed by another shorter tributary stream, is a 

 patch in which stinkwood is becoming scarce, but in 

 which yellow-wood and waggon-wood are plentiful. 



Continuous with this, lying in the fork formed by the 

 confluence of the Kruis and Eland's River, is a patch which 

 was formerly private property, but which is now the pro- 

 perty of the Crown, and which contains valuable timber at 

 its lower extremity. Near the confluence of the rivers 

 continuous with this, but on the eastern bank of the 

 Eland's River, and extending towards its source, is a patch 

 of valuable timber of all kinds, but the trees are growing 

 in deep kloofs. Below this, and continuous with it to the 

 banks of the Stinkwood River, and the confluence of this 

 and the Eland's River, is a large portion of the same patch, 

 containing valuable timber of all sorts, of more easy access. 



