330 MOUNTAIN-PASS. 



From Swellendam our course lay along the River 

 Zonderend, through Caledon, and Houw-Hoek Pass, 

 where we found the military busily engaged in cut- 

 ting a road. Thence we came to the Hottentot's 

 Holland Kloof. A new road through this mountain 

 has recently been completed, under the able superin- 

 tendence of the Surveyor-General, Major Mitchell, 

 and is called " Cole's Pass," in honour of its pro- 

 jector, General Sir Lowry Cole, then Governor of 

 the Cape, and will form a lasting monument of the 

 solicitude felt by his Excellency to promote the in- 

 terests of the Colony. Up to the period when this 

 " gigantic undertaking" was commenced, a journey 

 over this formidable pass was attended with con- 

 siderable difficulty ; we now, however, found the 

 road literally Macadamized. Winding our way 

 down the gentle slope, we accomplished the descent 

 with the greatest facility, and the farmers who 

 traverse this road will doubtless fully appreciate such 

 a valuable improvement. The prospect from the 

 summit of this mountain-pass is extremely impos- 

 ing, unfolding at one view the whole of the Cape 

 peninsula. 



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