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some of the valleys, where the grounds will admit of irrigation, 
the common returns of wheat are forty, and of barley sixty, 
for one, without an}'^ rest for twenty years, without fallowing, 
and without manure. In such situations the soil is deepl}' 
tinged with iron, and abounds with masses of the same kind 
of iron-stone which I have already mentioned. 
The Spring-bok, or the springing antelope, once so abundant 
in this division, as to have been the cause of its name, is now 
but an occasional visitor, and seen only in small herds of a few 
hundreds. Steenhohs and orhies and griesboks are still plentiful 
and large. The korhanes or bustards, of three species, andj 
hares are so plentiful that they were continually among the 
horses feet in riding over the country. On the Karroo plains, 
close behind the Bokkeveld, are found the two large species 
of antelope, the eland and the gemsbok, but their numbers are 
rapidly diminishing in consequence of the frequent excursions 
of the farmers on purpose to shoot them ; not so much for the 
sake of their flesh, which, however, is excellent, but for their 
skins alone. 
19- The Hantam is a Table Mountain, rising from the sur- 
face of the Bokkeveld Mountain, on its eastern extremity, and 
is surrounded by a number of farms that receive a supply of 
water from rills issuing: out of the base of the mountain. 
Horses and cattle are the produce of the Hantam, and the 
former have been found to escape a very fatal disease that is 
prevalent over the whole colony, by being sent upon the sum- 
mit of the Hantam Mountain. The inhabitants of this di- 
vision are liable io the depredations of the Bosjesman Hot- 
