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TRAVELS IN 
Kni/sna, tlie Kerirboom River, the Camtoos River, the Zwari 
hops River, the Sunday River, and tlie Grtat Fish River; the 
last of which terminates the colony to the eastward. 
The Broad River is discharged into Saint Sebastian's Bay, 
which the Dutch consider as a dangerous navigation, though 
there have*been instances of their ships taking slielter there 
in the north-west monsoon at no great distance from the 
mouth of the river, which is here a sheet of water more than 
a mile in width ; but, like every other river on this coast, ex- 
cept the Knysna, it is crossed by a bar of sand. Within this 
bar it might be navigated by small craft about thirty miles 
up the country ; an extent, however, in which there are 
scarcely half a dozen farm-houses. 
The Gauritz River is a collection of water from the Great 
Karroo plains, the Black Mountains, and the chain that runs 
parallel, and nearest, to the sea-coast. The branches to the 
northward of this chain are periodical, but it flows, to the 
southward, throughout the year, though, in the summer 
months, with a very weak current. In the rainy season it is 
considered as the most rapid and dangerous river in the Avhole 
colony. Its mouth opens into the sea, where the coast is 
straight, and it is crossed by a bar of sand which, in summer, 
is generally dry. 
The Knysna, being altogether different from the other 
rivers in the colony, will be particularly noticed, and a sketch 
of it given, in a future chapter, to which I must beg leave to 
lefer the reader. 
