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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-wocd 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. 
