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TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
Gather reaching the fummit of the mountain, we were prefentecl 
on the fouth with a view of the fea, and the beautiful country 
we had lately left; and on the north we faw the Channa Land 
and Karo. After the heat of the day had abated, we direded 
our courfe eaft north-eaft, through a very rugged country, 
leaving the large chain of mountains on our right hand; and, 
at the diftance of about forty miles, we obferved another chain 
on our left. Though this country has a very barren appear¬ 
ance, yet it abounds with plants, fuch as the Euphorbium, 
Craffula, the Mezembryanthimum, and many fpecies of Gera¬ 
nium. The climate differs much from that of the oppohte 
lide of the mountains ; it feldom rains here, except in the 
fummer, when it is accompanied by thunder. The foil is of 
a yellow loam, intermixed with fragments of rotten rocks. In 
the evening we came to a place, called Klip Rivier, or Rocky 
River, where we remained all night; and in the morning pur- 
chafed a flieep, which coll us fix Dutch ff illings, ecjual to three 
Englifli. We purfued our journey eaflward, and at three in 
the afternoon came to a peafant’s houfe. The people, on fee¬ 
ing us, went away, as they were not accuftomed to ftrangers; 
and it was with fome difficulty that Captain Gordon could per- 
fuade them to return to their own habitation. He informed 
them, that we were come from the Cape, and the next village 
being too far diftant, rec[uefled the favour of fuffering us to 
remain there for the night t this they granted; and, notwith- 
{landing their former fhynefs, behaved to us with the greatefi 
liofpitalityo 
Early in the morning, of the thirtieth, we proceeded eafl: 
half north, through an extremely rugged path; and, about one 
