WORN AL OF GEOLOGY 
JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1896. 
REVIEW OF Tih GEOLOGICAL LIZERATURE, OF DHE 
SOULE AE RICAN REP UBELES 
Topography.—The most characteristic features of South 
African topography appear to be its table lands. The interior 
of the country is in great measure a vast extent of high plateaux 
—the Hooge Veldt—which, though grassy, are practically tree- 
less and present much the same aridity and desolateness of 
aspect as many of our western mesas. Along the coast, especi- 
ally on the south and east, is a belt of country of a generally 
lower level, which is more rugged and broken, but even here 
plateaux occur, sometimes on the very coast, as, for instance, 
the well-known Table Mountain near Capetown. 
As one leaves the coast to go into the interior the country 
becomes more mountainous, often rising into considerable ranges 
like the Drakensberg range, which runs parallel to the southeast 
coast and has peaks rising to elevations of 10,000 feet or more.’ 
* Read before the Geological Society of Washington, November 13, 1895. 
2 AUTHORITIES CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PRESENT PAPER. 
1888. A. H. GREEN: Geology and Physical Geography of the Cape Colony, 
Quar. Jour., Vol. 44, pp. 239-270. 
1889. A.SCHENCK: Vorkommen des Goldes in Transvaal. Zeitsch. d. Deut. 
Geol. Gesellsch, Band XLI., pp. 573-581. 
1890. W.H. FuRLONGE: Geology of the De Kaap Gold Fields. Trans. Amer. 
Inst. Mg. Engrs, Vol. XVIII., pp. 334-348. 
1891. W.H.PENNING: A Contribution to the Geology of the Southern Transvaal. 
Quar. Jour., Vol. XLVII., pp. 451-463. 
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