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TOORNBERG. 
[1820. 
A. M., passed a fountain producing only a scanty 
supply of water, and at half past eight came to 
another, where a boor had erected a temporary 
house, round which many cattle were feeding ; 
there we halted. On ascending an eminence 
near the waggons, I had a most extensive view of 
hills to the eastward ; none however remarkable 
for their height, or for their high cliffs, but they 
were in general distinguished for their beautiful 
forms. They are neither clothed with trees, 
bushes, or verdure, the surface consisting of 
only dull, withered grass, or brown and dark red, 
coloured stones. The plain before was extensive 
but solitary in the extreme, from the total ab- 
sence of animal life, though when the Missiona- 
ries first came into those parts it was covered 
with elks, knoos, springboks, &c. The greater 
part of them have either been killed or frightened 
away by the late influx of boors. 
We departed at one p. m., and were met by four 
Bushmen, who came running towards us in 
the plain; they had formerly belonged to our 
Missionary station at Toornberg. 
Toornberg, a mountain which gave the name 
to our other Missionary station, was now full in 
view. It nearly resembled the shape of an in- 
verted tea-cup, including the part of the cup on 
which it stands. Being much higher than any 
