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Overberg
and South Coast:
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'The mountains rise nobly at a
couple of miles distance or so, their bases were lost
in a bluish vapour - greenish hillocks rose between
us and them - 'tis between them and the mountain,
in a glen, the woods are to be found which have been
reckoned so luxuriant.'
Lady Anne Barnard, 18th century unofficial First Lady
of the Cape:
Diary entry on the Swellendam Area, 1798.
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Across the sandy,
low-lying flats that lie east of Cape Town, a barrier
of mountains interrupts the landscape. These are the Hottentots
Holland, so named by early Dutch settlers who considered
them the ‘homeland’ of the indigenous Khoikhoi
(‘men
of men’) peoples, then known as Hottentots. On the
far side of these mountains, between the Langeberg range
and the ocean, is the fertile Overberg, a gently undulating
coastal plain that today lies predominantly under wheat.
This region provides a large diversity of much-coveted
species, from Cape Rockjumper to Blue Crane.
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