JOURNEY ACROSS THE 
[1813^ 
our next halting place was only two hours distant, 
we departed, travelling N.W. but we did not reach 
it till eleven o'clock, so much was our guide mistaken 
as to the distance. The first part of the road was 
among low barren hills, the remainder on a plain. 
6th. Having heard of a waterfall at no gfeat 
distance, several of us set off at nine A.M. with our 
guide to see it. We soon reached what might be 
called the metropolis of rocks, for so extensive a 
collection I saw no where else. They lay on the 
surface of many miles. The most conspicuous is 
about half a mile in length, and five hundred feet high: 
It has the appearance of an iron hill. Many low and 
high hills are composed of huge rocks piled above 
each other, and thousands of ponderous ones lie 
scattered over the ground in every direction, to a great 
distance, as if they had been transported thither by 
some tremendous eruption. The river divides itself 
into several branches which run in deep chasms, cut 
out of solid rock perhaps five hundred feet deep. As 
the sides were perpendicular it was impossible to get 
down to the river. A stone thrown from the top was a 
long time before it reached the river. We had heard 
of the waterfall from various natives when we were 
travelUng down the river, but none of them had seen 
it. Several had seen the mist arising from it, but the 
sound had so terrified them they were afraid to ap- 
proach it. After a search of several hours no water- 
fall was either seen or heard. Our people who came 
on foot by the side of the river from Kok's kraal saw a 
