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2". Voor, Middle, and Agter Sneuwberg, the near, middle, 
and ulterior Snowy mountains, may be considered as the 
grand nursery of sheep and horned catiie, particularly of the 
former. Of these many families are in possession of flocks 
from two to five thousand. Between the people of these 
divisions and the Bosjesinan Hottentots there is a perpetual 
warfare, which is imprudently fomented by the former making 
prisoners for life of the children they take from the latter. 
In no part of the colony are such immense flocks of the 
springbok as in the divisions of the Snowy Mountains. Five 
thousand in one group are considered only as a moderate 
quantity, ten, twelve, or fifteen thousand being sometimes 
found assembled together, especially when they are about to 
migrate to some other part of the country. The bontebok, the 
eland, the liartebeest, and the gemsboh, are also plentiful, and 
small game in vast numbers. On the banks of the Fish 
River are two wells of hepatized water, of the temperature 
of 88° of Fahrenheit's scale. They are considered to be effi- 
cacious in healing sprains and bruises, and favorable to rheu- 
' matic complaints, to which the great changeableness of the 
climate renders the inhabitants subject. In sevfiral of the 
mountains of this division are also found, adhering to the 
sandstone rocks, large plates of native nitre, from half an inch 
to an inch in thickness, but not in quantities sufiicicnt to 
make it an object of attention as an article of commerce.. 
3. Swaagers Hoeck is a small division within the moun- 
tains at the head of Bruyntjes Hoogte, tolerably well wa- 
