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and the miffionaries fince that time have continued to exercife 
their fim£lions unraolefted. The caufe of the farmers' hatred to 
thefe people, is their having taught the Hottentots the ufe of 
their liberty, and the value of their labor, of which they had 
long been kept in ignorance. 
, , At the point of a fmall detached mountain, to the fouthward 
of Bavian's kloof, is a warm fpring, whofe waters are pretty 
much ufed by invalids from the Cape. They are ftrongly 
chalybeate, like thofe near Olifant's river, and rife out of the 
fame kind of black turfy ground, in which were large malfes of 
a brown ponderous iron ftone, that apparently contained from 
60 to 70 per cent, of iron. The Dutch government had caufed 
ahoufe to be eie£ted, for the accommodation of fuch as might be 
inclined to ufe the waters ; which is now in fo ruinous and filthy 
a ftate, that the appearance of it is much better calculated to 
haften the progrefs of the difeafe, than the convalefcence of the 
patient. Moft of the Englifh who have ufed the bath, have 
taken their lodgings at a farm houfe, about a mile from the 
wells, where there are comfortable accommodations for a few 
perfons. The temperature of the waters, where they firft 
breakout of the ground, is 114° of Fahrenheit, but in the bath 
they are reduced to 110°. They are chiefly recommended for 
rheumatic complaints and debilitated conftitutions. 
From the bath we proceeded to the weftward, crofTed a fteep 
fandy hill, called the Hou hoek, and on the feventeenth, de- 
fcended the Hottentot's Holland's kloof, a difficult pafs acrofs 
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