^5?6 - TRAVELS IN 
diftance from the Cape, and the bad roads over the Cardouw, 
hoj'd out little encouragement for the farmer to extend the cul- 
tivation of grain, fruit, or wine, beyond the neceffary fupply of 
his own family. Dried fruit is the principal article they fend to 
market, after the fupplies, which they furnifli, of horfes, horned 
cattle, and flieep. The country on each fide of the lower part 
of the river is dry and barren, and for many miles from the 
mouth entirely uninhabited. A chalybeate fpring of hot water, 
of the temperature of io8° of Fahrenheit's Scale, flows in a 
very confiderable ftream out of the Cardouw Mountain into 
the Olifant's River. And a bathing- houfe is ereded over the 
fpring. . 
All the fmaller kinds of antelopes, jackalls, hares, and part- 
ridges, are very abundant in the four laft-mentioned divifions. 
Thefe divifions of Stellenbofch and Drakenftein, above enu- 
merated, lie on the weft or Cape fide of the great chain of 
mountains, and comprehend the moft valuable portion of the 
colony. The tranfmontane divifions of Stellenbofch are, 
17. The Biedouw^ which is the flanting fide of the great 
mountains behind the Olifant's River, a cold, elevated, rugged 
trad of country, covered with coppice wood, and very thinly 
inhabited. The ftock of the farmers confifts of fheep and horned 
cattle. 
.18. Onder Bokhveld is the elevated flat furface of a Table 
Mountain, whofe fides on the weft and north are high and al- 
moft 
