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11. Faardeberg, or the Horse Mountain, so called from the 
number of wild horses or zebras that formerly frequented 
it, is a continuation of the Paarl Mountain to the northward. 
The produce of the farms is chiefly confined to wheat, which, 
with a sprinkling of manure, or a couple of years rest, or by 
fallowing, will yield from fifteen to twenty fold. They culti- 
vate, also, barley and pulse, but have few horses or cattle 
beyond what are necessary for the purposes of husbandry. 
12. Riebeck's Casteel, or the Castle of Van Riebeck, may 
be considered as a prolongation of the Paardeberg, terminate 
ing to the northward in a high rocky summit. It took its 
name from the founder of the colony having travelled to this 
distance from the Cape, which is about sixty miles, and 
■which, in that early period of the settlement, was as far as it 
was considered safe to proceed, on account of the numerous 
natives, whose race has now almost disappeared from the face 
of the earth. The produce is the same as that of the farms 
of the last divifion, in both of which there are as many loan- 
farms as freehold estates. 
13, 14. East Zwartlancl, and Twenty-four Rivers. T!iese 
two divisions consist of extensive plains, stretching, in width, 
from the Berg River to the great chain of mountains ; and 
as far as the Picquet Berg, in length, to the northward. They 
are considered as the granaries of the colony. The crops, 
however, in Zwartland, are as uncertain as the rains, on 
which, indeed, their fertility almost entirely depends. In the 
Four-and-twenty Rivers the grounds are capable of being 
irris^ated by the numberless streamlets that issue from the 
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