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divifion, but here and there in the neighbourhood of the Sun- 
day River, which runs through it. The cattle and fheep are 
fmall, but generally in good condition, notwithftanding the ap- 
parent fcarcity, I might almoft fay total abfence, of grafs. 
7. Z%varte Kofs River is a fertile and extenfive divifion, 
lying to the fouthward of the Zwarte Ruggens, and is capable 
of producing an abundant fupply of grain, convenient to be de- 
livered at a trifling expence at the bay, which v/e have already 
had occafion to notice. About fifteen miles to the weftward of 
the bay are large forefts of timber trees, near which there is 
every appearance of a rich mine of lead, as I particularly no- 
ticed in the former volume. I had occafion alfo to fpeak of 
the fait lake near the bay, and the plentiful fuppiy of that ar- 
ticle which it produces. Wax from the myrica cerifera and 
aloes might be furniflied by this divifion as articles of com- 
merce. 
8. Ziiure Veldt is an extenfive plain country ftretching from 
the Sunday River in Zwart Kop's Bay to the Great Fifii River, 
and is the fame kind of good arable or pafture land as the plains 
of the Autiniqnas divifion in Zwellendam, but it is novvr exchi- 
fively in the poiTefTion of the Kalfers, from whom, indeed, it 
was originally taken forcibly by the boor?. The great chafms 
towards the fea-coaft, that are filled with thickets, abound in 
elephants and buffaloes ; and in the Great Filh River are occa- 
fionally,,at lead, a few of the hippopotamus or river horfe. 
9. Bj;- 
