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Excerpt from The Journal of Geology, 1896, Vol. 4 Topography. - The most characteristic features of South African topography appear to be its table lands. The interior of the country is in great measure a vast extent of high plateaux - the Hooge Veldt - which, though grassy, are practically treeless and present much the same aridity and desolateness of aspect as many of our western mesas. Along the coast, especially on the south and east, is a belt of country of a generally lower level, which is more rugged and broken, but even here plateaux occur, sometimes on the very coast, as, for instance, the well - known Table Mountain near Capetown. As one leaves the coast to go into the interior the country becomes more mountainous, often rising into considerable ranges like the Drakensberg range, which runs parallel to the southeast coast and has peaks rising to elevations of 10,000 feet or more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.