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=land for several smiths in the year. I mut•h
4 whether the strength of ester would turn n
think the water is sufficiently deep in
admit ships to anchor ar the river's mouth. As
the tide mite the serf increased. hat at dead hoe
water there west have bees erverel fret on the b.r.
Not the least resspeentnee of .hifting *lid or rocks
were observed sroorslist tl►r bro.kers. The lend on
the western bnnk ufthe Fish Wirer, 'mar on illnulho
Asian!. 'vino( ■ rich black earth. *UN 116
crovering of luxuriant pa.tuve.

" i crupietll this river at the first ford from tit...
sea. shout six miles ; here the swims
meanders through a chop •ud bushy ravine. Via•
Led our horses down on Friday tbtf 13th of May,
tu! were near an hour in xteicending. When we
rescheil the hank. the tide .had sot sufficiently re-
cusied to admit oar crossing; iu tin hour it war
-elected, Awl whoa Air side w••.yrerfectty au4, tissue
was but a vary smell fresh water stream. •
" From hence to the Becca, we continued in an
E.S.E. tirecti•tn; we crossed the beer at a foul
where the tide reaches at spring« ; there *ams
scarcely stay !Flitter in its bed. F this I;oid to
the mouth of the Berea, is shout six miles. I re-
rosine,l here to witness the effect that time chit and
flow of tide hail uzz the bar. The atrc•.utt runs
I,ltll the sea; is not more at ;ow wate► duet
12 or 14 fathoms across, hut deep. This liver
bids fier to admit coasting vessels from the follow-
ing rimiest--
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" The water clear of the tires mouth appears
deeper ; the mouth is so nar►ow, sod the river oo
coots ,ell, that the tide is more rapid than at the
Keiskaliarna, or the Fish River ; the breakers are
slot more then would he expected at a depth of
tight or ten fret, and resembled what is gencraliy -
oven of riven,' mouths that are known to be novi-
gable ; the co.el, however, is still ■s inhospitibie
as what I have hitherto seen. From the mouth of.
the Reece to the Keivkaliama. is shout fifteen miles
ill an E.S.E. direction; there are several sisal!
otreains, up sirlych the sea flows live or six miles at
spring tides ; but the sea rolls in high breakers
along the coast.
" The first view of the Keiskaliama is the most
flatteiliig to those who visit it Int the reason 1 dill.
viz. ' to ascertain whither it was open at the mouth,
for the purpose of commerce.' Au extensive betas
of water receives the 'island stream ; the eXitrior
points between which the Keiokaliaisia flows. when
its bed is full, hear from each other N.E. by E. and
S.W. by W. about one mile distant; but this bed
can only be full when the muuntaia torreuts are the
cause. It was nearly high water when L visited it.
the mouth of the river then about 70 or 80 yards
across, the Arrow running south into the 'ea, str•oir
and deep. Part of it is forced hack atoug the shore,
►imilar to the Fioli River, hut the greater ran runs
close along the low rocky shore, forming► the N.E.
point: its breakers were here, evidently, slut so •
sucerosive, and 1 do not despair of there being a
channel at high tides for onion vessels; but the
wildness of the coast, with the flat that readies
a utile and a half or two Miles seaward, blight the
hope that this river eau ever be constanty open to
the most enterinissug trader. It is not at present.
nor. calculating upon probabilities, can ever be
the resort of the Kiug's ships ; the tides are too
feeble, and of too little elevation, to serve any great
purpose; about seven or eight fret was the highest
could decide, by the marks on the shore, that the
tides ruse. 1 remained until low water, the river
then did not exiased forty yards in breadth. Tice
raviue, through which the Keiskahama serpentines,
runs in a N.W. and S.E. direction. The entrance
may be known at sea in clear weather by a range of
mountains in the interior; one otanditig by itself,
tilling in a conical shape, flattened at the top; and
■ short distance to the eastward, another high
mountain, forming three distinct elevations arid
falls; when these mountains bear N.N.W. they are
on with the !Wok:Amcor. The N.E. point of laud,
close to winch the river flows into the see, is low
and rocky, mooing from a remarkable little green
hillock. detached from the one where the bank
begins to rise ; the S.W. point is a sandy hillock.
Along the coast the sand is covered with bush,
through which, at different places, it is visible.
•' fleeing given an account of the rivers between
Cape Recife and the Keiskahams, [shall close with
this general observation :—That from the straight-
ness of the coast, few ships will ever venture to up-
proach them ; that although they are geuerally call-
ed rivers, they are mere streamlits, when not filled
by mountain torrents or heavy rains. It is tree
that the Fish and Kriskailiaina Rivers, close to their
the, appear magnificent sheets of water; bu.,
se I crossed the Fish River six or seven mile• from its
entrance. almost dry-lOoteit ; the Recce, without
wetting my shoes ; and, as L am told, the Kt lake-
hams has a font at so tioally short distance from
its mouth, they ate in themselves but strearnltts ;
the tide does out rise sufficiently high to make
them. what they are called in England, tide-bar-
boors.
" If. therefore, trade is ever carried on. it is my
opitsiou that by Part Elizabeth, or time Zwartkop s
alone, it cau Im effected wish security.
•r We have. from time to time, heard of maiiy
ia-
ineutable shipwrecks between Cape l'Aguslas avid
the Kteskehassa; nu doubt the greater poet of these
would have been avoided had a light wattled the
mariner of his danger. The expense of erecting a
loginsitostoe en Cape Recife ■nd Cape l'Aguiloo.
would not be very great. and the expense of light-
iiig them very trivial. How willingly every uts‘ags.
tor to and from India would contribute to the ea-
pease of these buildings. is well known ; aud:if but
one ship had Weis perserved by such a beacon, that
i has batted bet crew mid cargo on the sandy shores
of Africa, it would pay fur years (if moray alone is
to he considered. aud rot the life of ansii), the ea-
pease of a light-house.
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