. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . On the road to the Berg THE PECULIAR CONFIGURATION OF THE DRAKENSBERG.—Before describingthe chief features of the Mont aux Sources, it may not be out of place to indicate an interestingpeculiarity in the character of that portion of the mountain range between Tintwa Pass inthe north and Bushmans Nek in the south, which acts as the inland rampart of Natal. It deserves particular mention on account of the influence it exerts on the physicalconformation of the land. In this section of the Berg the course of the mountainous ledgeis brok
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . On the road to the Berg THE PECULIAR CONFIGURATION OF THE DRAKENSBERG.—Before describingthe chief features of the Mont aux Sources, it may not be out of place to indicate an interestingpeculiarity in the character of that portion of the mountain range between Tintwa Pass inthe north and Bushmans Nek in the south, which acts as the inland rampart of Natal. It deserves particular mention on account of the influence it exerts on the physicalconformation of the land. In this section of the Berg the course of the mountainous ledgeis broken into a zig-zag line, as shown on the map on page 322, in which it will be noticedthere is a retiring angle, or a bay, set back from the sea towards the north-west ; and aprominent angle, or projection, directed south-eastwards towards the sea. As already indicated,the parts of the range which are concerned in the formation of these angles, are about theboldest and loftiest of the broken chain. The projecting point looks down into the Provinceof Natal i
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