SOUTHERN AFRICA, 6i 
beate spring of hot water, of the temperature of 108" of 
Fahrenheit's scale, flows in a very considerable stream out of 
the Cardouw Mountain into the Olifant's River. And a 
bathing-house is erected over the spring. 
All the smaller kinds of antelopes, jackals, hares, and par- 
tridges, are very abundant in the four last-mentioned di- 
- visions. 
These divisions of Stellenbosch and Drakenstein, above enu- 
merated, lie on the west or Cape side of the great chain of 
mountains, and comprehend the most valuable portion of the 
colony. The transmontane divisions of Stellenbosch are, 
17. The Bledouw, which is the slanting side of the great 
mountains behind the Olifant's River, a cold, elevated, rug- 
ged tract of country, covered with coppice wood, and very 
thinly inhabited. The stock of the farmers consists of sheep 
and horned cattle. 
18. Oncler Bokkeveld is the elevated flat surface of a Table 
Mountain, whose sides on the west and north are high and al- 
most perpendicular rocks, piled on each other in horizontal 
strata like those of Table Mountain at the Cape ; but it de- 
scends with a gentle slope to the eastward, and terminates in 
Karroo plains. The grasses on the summit are short but 
sweet, and the small shrubby plants are excellent food for 
sheep and goats. The horses, also, of this division, are among 
the best which the colony produces, and the cattle, as is the 
case in all the mountainous situations, thrive very well. In 
