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The native trees of the Cape are many of them of quick 
growth, and advance to a large fize, but they are much tv/ifted 
and fliaken by the wind, and generally hollow at heart. Many, 
however, are perfe6:ly found, and every way fuitable for baulky 
rafters, joifts, and plank, but, I again repeat it, they have never 
yet met with a fair trial. The bay has already been noticed, 
as has alfo the Knyfna, which is in this diftrid:, and clofer to 
the forefts than even the bay itfelf. 
9. OUfanCs River runs at the foot of the fecond chain of 
mountains or the Zwarteberg to the weftward, and falls into the 
Gauritz River» The foil is Karroo, and ftrongly tinged with 
iron, and as in fome places there is plenty of water, vegetation 
here is remarkably luxuriant. At each extremity of this divi- 
fion are hot fprings of chalybeate water, the temperature from 
98° to 1 10° of Fahrenheit's fcale. The inhabitants cultivate the 
vine for home confumption, and diftil from peaches, as well as 
from grapes, an ardent fpirit. But the articles brought to the 
Cape market are chiefly butter and foap» The falfola grows 
here much more luxuriantly than I have feen it in any other 
part of the colony. The rnimofa Karroo grows alfo along the 
valley, through which the river flows, to a very large fize, and 
produces a great quantity of gum-arabic ; the bark too is liiperior 
to that of oak for tanning leather. Small antelopes and hares 
are fufficiently plentiful, and the beautiful koodoo is fometimes 
fliot among the groves of mimofas. Leopards, tyger cats, and 
different fpecies of the vlverra genus, as alfo the river otter, are 
not uncommon along the wooded banks of the OHfant or Ele- 
phants' River, 
JO. Kam-- 
