TRAVELS IN • 
to be able, at high water, to crofs the bar, in v/hich cafe they 
might lie, at all feafons, in perfed fecuritj. 
AH thefe rivers are well flocked with perch, eels, and fmall 
turtle, and, to a certain diftance from the fea-coaft, they abound 
with almod every kind of fea-fifh peculiar to this part of the 
world. 
Befide the rivers here enumerated, the whole flip of land, 
flretching along the fea-coaft, between the entrance of Falfe 
Bay and the Great Fifh River, is interfered by ftreamlets whofe 
waters are neither abforbed nor evaporated ; but they generally 
run in fuch deep chafms as to be of little ufe towards the pro- 
motion of agriculture by the aid of irrigation. 
The mountains, as I have before obferved, generally run in 
chains, parallel to each other, and moft commonly in the direc- 
tion of eafl and wefl. At a diftance they pofTefs neither the 
fublime nor the beautiful, but the approach to their bafes and 
the pafTages of the kloofs are awfully grand and terrific ; fome- 
times their naked points of folid rock rife almoft perpendicularly, 
like a wall of mafonry, to the height of three, four, and even 
five thoufand feet, refembling the Table Mountain on the Cape 
peninfula ; fometimes the inclination of the ftrata is fo great, 
that the whole mafs of mountain appears to have its centre of 
gravity falling without the bafe, and as if it momentarily 
threatened to ftrew the plain with its venerable ruins j in other 
places, where the loofer fragments have given way, they are 
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