radiated beams o f the fun, and made it appear as when feen
through a mill. Like a thin eioud alfo.they call a confufed
for tV ° ! §tound. In the Bokkeveld and the Khamies berg,
for the two laft years, thefe infeds have been particularly
u e ome. After repeated experiments to get rid of them
they at laft hit upon one that at leaft fayed their corn. This
ey effeded by making fires o f four acrid plants, by the fmoke
o f winch they were driven away; having, however, repeatedly
extingmlhed the fires by the myriads that flew into them.
th aT fu p fo nT e r UmT Hke the b° ld fr0ntS ° f Camdeb° °
J n r 1 f t I Sneuwberg, ls compofed o f a number o f horizontal
ftrata o f fandftone. In fad it may be confidered as
ormmg a part o f the fame ridge, being the moll elevated line in-
colony; this evidently appears from the different courfes
o f the ftreams, that riling out o f its fides, flow from it towards
every point o f the compafs. The great elevation o f courfe
C0W dUriDg Ae ~ Even
n the beginning of May, and at the foot of.the mountain, the
thermometer was down to the freezing point for five fucceedinv
z z z & z whole furface °f ™ s
Leaving the Hantam, and proceeding fouth-eallerly I
* . h a s h „ „ f Eogge„ u> 1
from the former by a narrow chafm or openine Theft* h ’ u
are fo called from a fpecies p,i mMi? »„a„ „fi peciesh ooolllof wr>yei -agoradfr s onthu at i. sT fhoeufnehd elv'Se2hrtys
* “ * » » p « - fubcn. I „ , J :
places
places the Roggeveld prefents to the next lower tetrace. which
is the Bokkeveld and Karroo plains, perpendicular faces of Hone
from two fo four thoufand feet in height. Yet from this great
elevation, on the eaftern fide, the defcent.is fcarcely perceptible.
The Filh river, whofe courfe is eafterly, and which nfes on the
very fummit of the mountain, fcarcely has any current, but is a
feries of deep holes conneded by periodical ftreamlets. The
great inequality of the fummit of the Roggeveld gives it the
appearance of a chain of mountains rifing out of the general
furface of a mountain. O f thefe the Kom, or Cup mountain, is
the higheft. According to the information of a neighbouring
peafant, who aflifted Colonel Gordon in determining its altitude,
it is fifteen hundred feet higher than the Table mountain, or
five thoufand feet above the Karroo plains. For feverai months
in the year the Roggeveld is entirely under fnow; the in h a l ants
are then obliged to defcend upon the Karroo with all the
cattle, where, in temporary dwellings of nifties or ftraw, they
remain till the fpring. This divifion of Stellenbofch is confidered
to produce the beft breed of horfes in the whole colony.
The country to the eaftward of the Roggeveld is inhabited
by different hordes of Bosjefmans. One o f thefe, called the
L a n a s , dwelling on the right bank of the^Orange nver,
direaiy eaft from the Roggeveld, is reprefented as a very formidable
tribe of people. The few
feeing, were ftrong lufty men, apparently o f the fame tnbe as
the Namaaquas. They are confidered asbemg more crud,
aatt tmhee flaammee time _m _o re daring than any . otbhuetr htanvbee t hoef fa*m e