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THE VIEW. 



At 4 P. M. we stood upon the Pass summit, but 

 we found no tableland, as about Slioa. This patch 

 of highlands, whose limits have been roughly laid 

 down between N. lat. 1° and S. lat. 6°, is to the 

 eastern regions what the massif of the Camarones 

 and its system in N. lat. 5° is to Western Africa. 

 The latter is known to be a volcano, and the 

 former has been also reported of igneous forma- 

 tion ; ^ here, however, it appears in the shape of 

 granite and sandstones. Both are abnormal eleva- 

 tions, declining to the coast-fringing ranges, which 

 latter correspond with our Eastern and Western 

 Ghauts of Hindostan, and both, I may venture to 

 predict, will in due time be colonized by white 

 men. In the present day there is no better con- 

 vict station than the Camarones mountain, and 

 Usumbara might be preferred to the Andamans 

 as a penitentiary for criminals who have deserved 

 the Kala pdni. 



The ' cloud-hght ' was that of our English 

 climate : the scenery around us reminded my 

 companion of Almorah, me of the Blue Mountains 

 in Southern India. There were the same rounded 

 cones, fertilized by rainy winds, tapestried with 

 velvety grass, and ribbon' d with paths of red 



1 Doenyo Mburo, for' instance, placed by Mr Wakefield 

 soutli of the Salt Lake Naivasha or Balibali. 



