The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . They attainan altitude of about 7,000 feet. There arc many mountains not directly attached to ranges,which arc well worthy of note. Some of these arc of greatheight and beauty, as for instance, Episweni in the TugelaValley in Umvoti County, and Tabamhlope or White Mountain,6,512 feet, near Estcourt. In the deep river valleys, queerfantastic shaped hills arc to be seen, some like upturned ships. l/ER. SIXTY others conical, like tents, and others again, with great cleftsin them, which are capable of giving scope to the rom
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . They attainan altitude of about 7,000 feet. There arc many mountains not directly attached to ranges,which arc well worthy of note. Some of these arc of greatheight and beauty, as for instance, Episweni in the TugelaValley in Umvoti County, and Tabamhlope or White Mountain,6,512 feet, near Estcourt. In the deep river valleys, queerfantastic shaped hills arc to be seen, some like upturned ships. l/ER. SIXTY others conical, like tents, and others again, with great cleftsin them, which are capable of giving scope to the romancersart. It would be no difficult matter to imagine some of theselonely and towering ranges, ghoul-haunted, and as full ofsupernatural wonders as the ancient historians of the landportrayed them in the days when unicorns, amazons, anddwarfs were the supposed occupants of the very regionthrough which commodious saloon carriages are now whirled,and where electric-lighted hotels help to dispel romance bythe creation of comfortable fact. Owing to the configuration of Natal, it is unhappily the Rivers,case that but two rivers in the country are navigable at all,and those only for a few miles from the coast. The verycircumstance which bestows on the Colony its variety of climates, its steppes or terraces, cuts off this cheap andeasy means of transport and pleasure. Of first-class streams there are three, the Tugela, theUmkomaas, and the Umzimkulu. The first-
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