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the range of high mountains, enclosing the Lange Kloof, and exhi- 
biting a rugged out-line, with many peaks. Before them are ranges 
of lower hills, of which, from one point, we counted no less than five, 
running parallel to each other, and intersected vertically by num- 
berless kloofs, likewise in parallel lines, so as to give to the whole 
the appearance of division by art. These kloofs are partly naked, 
partly filled with bushes, or lined on each side with rocks. To the 
right of the road, the slope of the hill, sinking into a deep glen 
beneath, grew more and more steep, as we proceeded, and in some 
places to that degree, that we began to give credit to the stories 
of waggons and oxen rolling down altogether, and being seen no 
more. A misfortune of this kind is said to have happened to a 
waggon in General Dundas's retinue, when going over the Dui- 
vilskop. 
In about two hours, we reached the Paerdekop (Horse's Head) 
mountain, over the very summit of which we had to pass. Its 
steepness in all directions renders it impossible to carry the road 
round its sides. Our exhausted oxen were hardly able to drag 
the waggons along, and we were obliged again to have recourse to 
a double spann. The sand-stone rock, forming the mass of the 
mountain, appears lying in strata nearly perpendicular, besides 
which, a vast number of large loose fragments are strewed upon its 
surface. Many of them are clothed with a lichen of a bright ver- 
milion colour. Quartz lies in veins, or in detached pieces. The 
soil produces a variety of bushes, flowering shrubs and aloes, be- 
ivreen the stones. With the help of our men, bearing the waggon 
up on either side, as the slope of the road required, and suffering 
our cattle to rest every two or three minutes, we at length sur- 
mounted every difficulty, and got safely across this dreaded mountain, 
to an out-spann place in a dreary wilderness. After an hour's rest, 
we set out again, and our groom, Leonhard, having pointed out a 
footpath, by which we might shorten our road. Brother and Sister 
Schmitt and I ventured upon it. It led us through a rocky glen, 
into which a stone, accidentally rolling down from the heights 
