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parallel, and neareft, to the fea-coaft. The branches to the 
northward of this chain are periodical, but it flows, to the fouth- 
ward, throughout the year, though, in the fummer months, 
with a very weak current. In the rainy feafon it is confidered 
as the mofl rapid and dangerous river in the whole colony. 
Its mouth opens into the fea, where the coaft is ftraight, and 
it is crofled by a bar of fand which, in fummer, is generally 
dry. 
The Knyfna, being altogether different from the other rivers 
in the colony, is particularly noticed, and a Iketch of it given, 
in the fecond chapter, to which I muft beg leave to refer the 
reader. 
The Keurboom River, like the Knyfna, runs up into the 
midft of tall forefts, and might be navigated by boats to a con- 
fiderable diftance, but its mouth, in Plettenberg's Bay, is com- 
pletely fanded up by the almofl: perpetual rolling fwell of the 
fea, from the fouth-eaftward upon the fandy beach. 
The Camtoos River is a collection of waters from, the fame 
parts of the country as, but more eafterly than, the Gauritz 
River. It falls into a wide bay of the fame name, in which the 
only fecure anchorage is oppofite the mouth of a fmall ftream 
called the Kromme or Crooked River. Though Camtoos River, 
juft within the mouth, is a wide bafon deep enough to float a 
fhip of the line, yet the bar of fand acrofs the mouth is fordable 
upon the beach at high water, and frequently dry at low water. 
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