Mohave County miner., 1900-03-03
Birjseye View Of South Africa.

You land in South Africa at the foot
Of mountain 5000 feet high. They
call it Table mountain, and the veil of
mist that, excepting on very clear days,
overhangs it, South Africans are
pleased to term the stable CLOTH" Pre-
senting front of solid rock 1000 feet
In height, perpendicular as a wall, and
for half mile on top quite level, this
mountain offers the best natural sign
board on earth. Time and again have
English firms attempted with fabulous
sums to secure it for advertising pur
poses, but as yet there has been no
such DETACHMENT
Table mountain marks the tip of the
Ozark Continent" Below it nestles
the city of Cape Town, a beautiful bay
stretching out in the foreground. On
the west the mountain breaks off alb
ruptly, and the railroad skirts about it
to the interior. On the east it slopes
off into hilly, picturesque formation
known as the "Lion's Back" and then
gradually rises into the Drakensburg
mountains. This is the only great
mountain range south of the Zambesi,
and by noting its location one may un-
derstand in trice just what South AZ
RIGA is geographically.
Steaming along the east coast from
Cape Colony northward, you have. the
Drakensburg in view nearly all the way
to Beira, distance of ZOO miles. In
Cape Colony and Natal the mountains
In many places dip to the waters edge,
aud with a field glass one may see on
their crags aud peaks smoke curling up
from the native villages. In Portu-
guese territory the mountains recede
slightly from the coast, and at Delagoa
bay there is an intervening stretch of
lowland twenty miles wide. At Beira
this has increased to sixty miles. At
the Zambesi the Drakensburg ends.
To get into the interior of South At
RIGA from auy of the five east coast
landing places, Port Elizabeth, East
London, Durham, Delsgoa day aud
Beira, one must first cross short ex-
tent of lowland, aud then ascend steep
mountains. Having arrived there the
traveller is conscious of little or no
descent, five-sixths of the whole inte-
rior being vast plateau that extends
to the Zamb besi on the north, the At
lantic ocean on the west, aud varies in
altitude from 1900 to 600 feet above
the sea level.
A fringe of tropical country, where
bloom the magnolia aud the rose,
where flourish the orange, wineapple,
lemon, grape, banana, the cotton and
the tea plant; long stretch of noun
tains running parallel with the Indian
ocean, the highest peaks Of which are
capped with snow, and in whose valleys
wave tracts Of wheat aud corn; vast
prairie, dotted here and there with
patches of scrub woodland, mission
stations and immense farms with mil
iiOuS VI succp duu CdtIic BTdLluk tucEc-
on; few thousand hamlets scattered
like Oa-es over great landscape, made
black by the native Africans who live
in thatched huts and wear bat reech
clout; dozen large towns where is
heard the clang of the American trolly
car and the clatter of the police patrol,
and about which men cluster As flies
gather to a jar of sweets; the remnants
of a once mighty geological garden, in
Guiding many leopards, beautiful and
1.-the, baboons, antelope, jackals aud
crocodiles, less number of hippopot-
ami, and few herds of buffalo, ele-
plants and giraffes; some iron ore,
some coal, some copper aud a little sill
YER; 4 miles of gold and 100 acres of
diamonds. That Is South Africa.-Al-
len Sangress, in Ainslee's Monthly.