The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

THE DEAKEXBERG. 65chief summits of the Literal chain of the Maluti highhuids, on wliich the snowremainsfor the four Austral winter months from May to August. This is thetrue Alpine region of South Africa. One of its peaks, to which the missionarj'Jacottet has given the name of Mount Hamilton, has an extreme altitude of11,600 feet, while the gorge through which the Basutos descend from the upperOrange Valley to that of its great atHueut, the Senkunyane, is scarcely 200 feetlower.Farther on in the direction of the north-cast, the range known as the Randberg,that is, the " Border Range," but to which is also extended the name of theDrakenberg, as if still forming part of the southern system, assumes the characterof an enormous rocky cliff. On the inner side it faces the undulating uplandFig. 26. Relief of South Apkica.Scale 1 : 8.000,000.^^'Siy^v^'"'^''^'""''^"""^"^x^-^'^^'^"^'^^^"^?^^ -V '^^'>"1\V\' \