72 TRAVELS IN 
with iron, and as in some places there is plenty of water, 
vegetation here is remarkably luxuriant. At each extremity 
of this division are hot springs of chalybeate water, the tem- 
perature from 98° to 110° of Fahrenheit's scale. The inha- 
bitants cultivate the vine for home consumption, and distil 
from peaches, as well as from grapes, an ardent spirit. But 
the articles brought to the Cape market are chiefly butter and 
soap. The sahola grows here much more luxuriantly than 1 
have seen it in any other part of the colony. The mimosa 
Karroo grows also along the valley, through which the river 
flows, to a very large size, and produces a great quantity of 
gum-aiabic ; the bark too is superior to that of oak for tan- 
ning leather. Small antelopes and hares are sufficiently 
plentiful, and the beautiful koodoo is sometimes shot among 
the groves of mimosas. Leopards, tyger cats, and different 
species of the viverra genus, as also the river otter, are not 
uncommon alons: the wooded banks of the Olifant or Ele- 
phant River. 
10. Kamnaasie is a rough hilly tract of country surrounding 
a high mountain so called, situate between the Olifant Eiver 
and the I^ange Kloof. The inhabitants are comparatively 
poor and few. 
11. Lange Kloof is the long pass which has been parti- 
cularly noticed in the first Volume. 
12. Sitsihamma commences at Plettenberg's Bay, and con- 
tinues along the sea-coast to the Camtoos River. It is chiefly 
covered v. ith impenetrable forests, on the east of which, how- 
