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plants of the fame nature as thofe that grew fo abundantly be- 
tween GraafF Reynet and Zwart-kop's river, but in general 
taller, and of more luxuriant growth. It was in faft an arm 
of the fame foreft, through which a road had been cut juft wide 
enough to admit the waggons. Beyond the foreft the face of 
the country was beautifully marked with knolls and dells, finely 
chequered with clumps of evergreen trees and patches of fhrub- 
bery. Among the fwells were level meadows covered with 
grafs of a coarfe reedy nature, and full of copious fprings of 
good water. In the evening we encamped on the Bosjefmaji's 
river, and the next day proceeded eafterly to the Hajfagai-bofch 
river, whofe fource is in a fmall hanging foreft on the declivity 
of the Rktberg. This long range of hills began here to be 
broken into a number of inferior elevations that continued to 
the eaftern extremity of the colony, where they mingled into 
the high banks of the Great Fifh-river. 
On the Haflagai-bofch river ftood the fecond habitation that 
had occurred in the laft three days' journey, and we were here 
informed that there was no other to the eaftward. The coun- 
try that lies between the Sunday river and the eaftern limit of 
the colony, and between the Rietberg and the fea-coaft, is called 
the Zuure Veldt^ or four grafs plains. In appearance it is the 
moft beautiful divifion in the whole diftri6t ; it is well wooded 
and watered, has a great depth of good foil, and is well clothed 
with grafs. Till the fcandalous rupture between the peafantry 
and the KafFers, occafioned entirely by the injuftice and tyranny 
of the former, Zuure Veldt was one of the beft-peopled divifions 
in the diftrid, but has been fmce that time nearly abandoned. 
It 
