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ftered and fertile in grain, which, however, is very sparingly 
Cultivated. 
4. Bruyntjes Hoogte lies upon the banks of the Great Fish 
-River, and is considered as the best division in the whole dis- 
trict for horses and horned cattle, and equally suitable for 
the cultivation of grain and fruits ; but the enormous distance 
from any market holds out no encouragement to the farmer 
to sow more grain than is necessary for family use, and many 
of them take not the trouble of sowing any. The bosch bok 
and pigmy antelope are common in this district ; and buf- 
faloes and rhinosceroses haunt the thickets upon the banks of 
the Great Fish Ptiver. 
All the disturbances of Graaf Reynet have originated in 
this division. Its proximity to the Kaffers held out an irre- 
sistible temptation to the boors to wage war against them for 
the sake of plundering them of their cattle; yet none of the 
boors are in better circumstances than those of Bruyntjes 
Hoogte. The very man who was most active in promoting 
a Kaffer war, according to his Opganf, had between 800 and 
900 head of cattle, and more than 8000 sheep, all of which, 
in their late disturbances with the Kaffers, he very de- 
servedly lost. 
5. Cnmckboo extends along the feet of the Snowy Moun- 
tains, from the drosdy to Bruyntjes Hoogte, and is chiefly 
composed of Karroo plains, which, however, are extremely 
icrtile in the chasms down which the streams of the moun- 
