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Of late yearsthose roads have been allowed to fall into disrepair, in order, it maybe supposed, to check wagon traffic and to promote that by railway;apart from the railway, communication with Delagoa Bay would now beimpossible. What with the fever climate in summer, and the formidablemountain barriers, the Transvaal high veldt is well protected fromaggression from the direction of Delagoa Bay. A few thousand mendistributed at the few mountain passes, blocking the tunnel at one ofthese (at Wate...rval Boven), and breaking up some few bridges, wouldeffectually arrest the progress of any invading force. CLIMATE AND TOPOGRAPHY From the tropical Zambesi regions and the torrid Kalahari plains, downto the 34th parallel at Cape point, a great diversity of climaticconditions is met with. To the north and north-east are the steaming, death-breeding low lands, abounding with dank virgin forests and scrubbystretches; and to the north-west extend the arid, sandy, and stonylevels. There are the temperate and fruitful inland reaches along thesouthern and south-eastern littoral, and again further inward the vastplateaux at 2, 000 to 6, 500 feet elevation, which represent nearlyone-half of the sub-continent with quite other climatic aspects.
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