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example, I am obliged to describe the intermediate country 
according to its natural divisions; and in doing this I shall 
generally assume the larger rivers as boundaries of tracts, 
or cantons, of which I presume to give as brief and as con- 
cise an account as possible. 
III. In the first place, then, I take from the Ombashee 
‘Rigor to the Omzimvooboo, the St. John’s River of the 
charts. 
This tract will contain about seven thousand two hundred 
square miles ; it is fertile in an extraordinary degree, highly 
picturesque, | well watered by numerous streams and rivers 
constantly flowing; it is however travelled over with great 
difficulty and loss of time, being intersected every few miles 
by deep ravines. 
The Kogha, Impaakoo, Omtata, Omtongala, the two 
‘Omgazis, and the Omzimvooboo, water this extensive 
region, the first of which is a well- -supplied stream. 
The Impaakoo, a smaller river, is remarkable from its 
waters passing into the ocean through a singular arched 
aperture in the rocks, which has been named by Commo- 
dore, Owen, when surveying the coast, “ The Hole in the 
Wall:” it is situated i in lat. 30° 5/, and long. 29° 8’. 
The Omtata rises from distantly separated sources in the 
great range of mountains, collecting tribute from numerous 
streams, and combines with the sea in about lat. 31° 5’, and 
Jong. 29° 15’. It has a tide-way of eight miles, and appears 
to be open for shipping. Upon its western sources it was 
that the marauder Mantuana was attacked by Major Dun- 
das, and within a month afterwards by Colonel Somerset, 
in 1828, and his predatory band entirely routed, to the sal- 
vation of the Caffer nations, who would, there is every rea- 
son to believe, if unsupported, have been totally destroyed. 
This stream is represented as very beautiful, maintaining a 
