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The Omslatoos is open at its estuary, and has a fine 
sheltered basin inside its mouth: it is about eighteen miles 
in advance of the Omlelaas. 
Between the Omslatoos and the St. Lucia, several streams 
enter the ocean; but as the country has hardly been trodden 
by European feet, little is really known respecting them. 
The St. Lucia, or Omvaloozie, which latter is its native 
name, is a stream of large magnitude, deriving its chief 
supplies from three great sources originating in the inner 
range, or Ingale Mountains, and called respectively the 
Valoozie Imtlopie, or White Valoozie, Valoozie Innami, or 
Black Valoozie, and Valoozie itself. From the secondary 
ridge, a number of considerable streams pour their waters 
into the principal river, and having all united into one com- 
mon channel, fifteen miles from the sea, where it takes the 
name of Omvalozie, it discharges itself in lat. 27° 45’, and 
long. 32° 32’. The principal branch, the Black Valoozie, is 
described by Messrs. Cowie and Green, at sixty-three miles 
from the sea, where they passed it on the road to Delagoa, 
as deep, and above one hundred yards wide, dangerous to 
cross, from the number of quicksands and alligators, with 
which it swarms. Its banks are swampy, covered with rushes, 
and overgrown by the wild fig-tree, of very large dimen- 
sions, some measuring six feet in diameter. 
The climate and appearance of this division is very dif- 
ferent from that of Natal; towards the sea are extensive 
plains, sandy and swampy, above which the country is 
mountainous and generally bare of wood, although there are 
some few fine forests of timber-trees: The heat of the sum- 
mer is almost insupportable. Metallic ores are said to be 
abundant; and it has also been asserted by several visitors, 
that silver is to be found here, but that a superstitious dread 
on the part of the natives prevents the old mines, or rather 
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