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tains constantly flow. The oxen are large and strong, and 
the sheep little inferior to those of the Snowy Mountains. 
The beautiful animal the gnoo is frequently seen bounding 
ever the plains of Camdeboo, and springboks and harteheests 
are very plentiful. 
6. Zwarte Ruggens is a rough stony tract of country to 
the southward of Camdeboo, very scantily supplied with wa- 
ter, and producing, little except succulent plants, among 
vrbich are two or three species of euphorbia. Few families 
are found in this division, but here and there in the neigh- 
bourhood of the Sunday River, which runs through it. The 
cattle and sheep are small, but generally in good condition, 
notwithstanding the apparent scarcity, I might almost say 
total absence, of grass. 
7. Zwarte Kop's River is a fertile and extensive division, 
lying to the southward of the Zwarte Ruggens, and is capable 
of producing an abundant supply of grain, convenient to be 
delivered at a trifling expence at the bay, which I shall here- 
after have occasion to notice. About fifteen miles to the 
westward of the bay are large forests of timber trees, near 
which there is every appearance of a rich mine of lead, as I 
particularly noticed in the former volume, I had occasion- 
also to speak of the salt lake near the bay, and the plentiful 
supply of that article which it produces. Wax from the 
inyrica cerifera and aloes might be furnished by this divisioa s 
as articles of commerce. 
