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habitants with water. The 

 /een three and four hundred 

 jtr, with gardens attached, and is re- 

 ^r its extreme neatness and regularity. 

 The streets are wide, and planted on either side with 

 rows of lemon and orange trees, which have a fresh 

 and cheerful appearance, and when in blossom dif- 

 fuse a powerful fragrance. There is a spacious 

 church, a school-house, and a large range of public 

 offices. The general appearance of the town is 

 calculated to produce a favourable impression on the 

 traveller, emerging from the dreary wastes by which 

 it is approached. The population is estimated at 

 fourteen thousand five hundred. A considerable 

 trade is carried on with the farmers residing in the 

 interior districts, who bring down their produce, 

 consisting of ostrich-feathers, ox-hides, soap, tallow, 

 &c, for barter with the inhabitants, these supply- 

 ing them in return with British manufactured goods, 

 purchased at Graham's Town, and conveyed across 

 the country in waggons ; thus avoiding a tedious 

 journey of a month across the arid karroo to Cape 

 Town, whither they formerly resorted for their annual 

 supplies — a practice now altogether discontinued. 



From hence we proceeded towards the Sneeuwberg 

 Mountains, having engaged a fresh span of oxen to 

 be ready for us at the pass, which we understood to 

 be steep and difficult of access. Following the 

 course of the Sunday River for some distance, we 



