Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-02-15
SUCH is SOUTH AFRICA
Vivid Picture Ia Miniature OF the Lower
Part of tho Dark Continent.


You land in South Africa at the foot
CT mountain $500 feet high. They
call 1t Table Mountain, and the veil oil
mist that, excepting on very clear days
ove.;hangs it, South Africans ere
pleased TO term the ''Tablecloth." Pre-
senung front of solid rock, 900 feet
In height, perpendicular as wall and
Tor half a mile on top level. this noun
tain offers the best natural signboard
on earth. Time and again have Brit
lsh firms attempted with fabulous sums
to secure It for ADVERTISING purposes.
but. as yet, there has been no such
defacement.
Table Mountain marks the t,p end
OF tne Dark Continent. Below il nes-
Ties the city OF Cape Town, a beautiful
pay stretching out in the foreground.
On the west the mountain breaks of
abruptly, and the railroad skirts about
10 the interior. On the east it slopes
on anto a billy picturesque formation
known as the Lions 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 a trice just what South
along the east coast from Cape Colony
northward, you have the Drakeusbur
IN view nearly all the way to Beira, a
distance of 1000 miles. In Cane Col
ony and Natal the mountains in many
places dip the waters tCge and with n
reld glass one may see on their crags
and peaks smoke curl ng I'D from the
native villages. In Pc taguese terri
tory the mountains recede slightly
from the coast, and NJ - lagoa Bay
mere is an intervening sire, Oh of low
iand twenty mile vide. At Lei a this
mas increased 10 siXty m les AZ the
CambeSi the Ora s5u yenis
To get into the IN Tor cf South
AFRICA from sny Of the i've east coast
landing places-Port Elizabeth. East
London. Durham, Delagoa BAY anc
Belra-one must cross a shor. extern
Or low land and then a ce1d te
mountains. Having arrived there. the
traveller is conscious of little or ! o
descent, five sixths of tae whole int
LOT being vast plateau that extent
20 the Zambesi on the NORTH, the !
lantlc Ocean on the west. and var
In altitude from 5000 to 5000 fec
above the sea.
- AAAtoC IN llOplCdl country, WLers
bloom the magnolia and the rose.
where flourish the orange, pineapple.
lemon, guavo. grape, banana, the cot
ton and the tea plant; long stretch
or mountains running parallel VITA
the indian Ocean. the highest peaks ..
whlcn are capped with snow, and in
whose valleys wave tracks of wheat
and corn. A vast prairie, dotted here
and there with patches OF scrub wood
land, mission stations, and immense
farms with millions OF sheep and cat
tie grazing thereon; a few thousand
hamlets scattered like GASES over a
great landscape, made black by the
native Africans who live in matched
butts. and wear but a breech clout; a
dozen large towns where Is heard the
clang OF the American trolley car and
the CHATTER OF the police patrol, and
about which men cluster as 1ies cattle
TO a jar of sweets; the remnants Of
Dnce mighty geological garden, includ-
Ing many leopards. beautiful ADD 1.-THE.
balloons, antelope, jackals and c-Oco-
nles, a. less number of hippopotamI
and few herds of buffasc, elephants
and giraffes; some iron ore, some coal.
some copper, and lite silver: forty
miles of gold and 100 acres or d:a-
monds. That is South Africa.-Ains-
lees Magazine.