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MUNGO PARK'S 
(like all the hills in Konkodoo) are a coarse reddish gra- 
nite, composed of red feldspar, white quartz, and black 
shorl ; but it differs from any granite I have seen, in hav- 
ing round smooth pebbles, many of them as large as a can- 
non shot. These pebbles, when broken, are granite, but of 
a paler colour and closer texture. The day was cool ; but 
after fatiguing ourselves and resting six times, we found 
that we were only about half way to the top. We were 
surprised to find the hill cultivated to the very summits ; 
and though the people of Dindikoo were but preparing 
their fields, the corn on the hill was six inches high. The 
villages on these mountains are romantic beyond anything 
I ever saw. They are built in the most delightful glens 
of the mountains ; they have plenty of water and grass at 
all seasons ; they have cattle enough for their own use, and 
their superfluous grain purchases all their luxuries; and 
while the thunder rolls in awful grandeur over their heads, 
they can look from their tremendous precipices over all 
that wild and woody plain which extends from the Faleme 
to the Black River. This plain is in extent, from North 
to South, about forty miles: the range of hills to the South 
seem to run in the same direction as those of Konkodoo, 
viz. from East to West. There are no lions on the hills, 
though they are very numerous in the plain. In the even- 
ing Lieutenant Martyn fell sick of the fever. 
