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AT ZWARTEBERG. 
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boors, slaves or Hottentots, they generally live in their own waggons 
or in temporary huts, during the time of their stay. 
The water seemed to possess no quality hurtful to vegetation, 
as Cliffortia odorata, which is a shrub frequent in wet places, grew 
in it, as luxuriantly here as in other rivulets. I gathered Pelargo- 
nium grossularidides on the very edge of the warm rill, which was de- 
corated also with the elegant Restio verticillafus, of the height of six 
feet, together with various Lobelics, and many other flowers. On the 
drier ground, Athanasia trifurca was a conspicuous shrub, being at 
this time in bloom. The sides of the Zwarteberg mountain, which 
my time did not allow me to examine, appeared likely to furnish a 
good botanical harvest. 
The Hot-Bath is about 75 miles distant from Cape Town, and 
bearing S. E. by E. ^ E. It is not situated on the great eastern 
road, but stands at a little distance on one side of that branch of it 
which leads to the spot selected for the intended village ; while the 
great eastern road itself passes along the northern side of Zwarteberg. 
The name of Zwarteberg is applied to several different mountains in 
the colony ; to one near Saldanha Bay ; to the lofty range which 
walls in the southern side of the Great Karro ; and perhaps to many 
others. Numberless instances of one name being given to several 
different places, may easily be found on the map ; but the confusion 
arising from this inattention, will become more serious in proportion 
as the country increases in population, and will, in the end, call for 
the application of some remedy, which, before the colony shall be 
too far advanced, may not be found impracticable. 
The number of mountains and places still undistinguished by 
any name, continues to be the cause of many mistakes ; and the in- 
habitants have great reason for desiring an authorised, regular, and 
systematic naming of all such places. As this country, for any thing 
at present known, will continue attached to the British empire, 
it seems more natural that the names of the principal places at 
least, should be English. The transition from Dutch to English 
names, might be made with little inconvenience to either nation, 
since translations of the present Dutch names might be used by all 
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