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irregularly peaked and broken into a variety of fiintaflic fliapes. 
In fhort, all the chains of mountains in the fouthern part of 
South Africa, may be confidered to be made up of a repetition 
of parts fimilar to thofe of the Devil's Hill, the Table Moun- 
tain, and the Lion's Head, and of the fame materials, but ge- 
nerally of a more gigantic fize j and all their fummits are en- 
tirely deftitute of verdure. 
Division, Population, and Produce. 
When the Dutch Eaft India Company perceived their fettle- 
ment extending far beyond the bounds they had originally pre- 
fcribed, they found it expedient to divide the country into dif- 
trids, and to place over each a civil magiftrate with the title of 
Landrojl^ who, with his council called Heniraaden, was au- 
thorized to fettle petty difputes among the farmers, or between 
them and the native Hottentots, levy fines within a certain 
fum, colled and apply the parochial afTelTments, and enforce the 
orders and regulations of Government. His diftrid: was dif- 
tributed into a number of fubdivifions, over each of which was 
appointed a Fddtwagtmeejler or country overfeer, whofe duty 
was to take cognizance of any abufes committed within his di- 
vifion, and report the fame to the Landroft, to adjuft difputes 
about fprings or water-courfes, and to forward the orders of 
Government. 
Little as the authority was which Government had thus 
delegated to the LandroH: and his affiftants, that little was fubjed 
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