Title
A VIEW NEAR THE ROODE SAND PASS AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. : NO. II. / DRAWN BY HENRY SALT. ; ENGRAVED BY I. BLUCK.
Creator
Bluck, John (Printmaker), printmaker.
Publication details
[London] : Published as the Act directs, by William Miller. Albermarle Street, May 1.st 1809.
Physical details
1 print : aquatint and etching with hand-colouring ; plate 48 x 65.3 cm, on sheet 52.3 x 73.7 cm.
Description
View of a wagon being pulled by several horses on a rough path beside a river; vegetation in the foreground, rocks and mountains in the distance.
Place
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Additional information
Bound with accompanying text: PLATE II. ROODE PASS - CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. THIS view of the interior of Africa, is taken at the entrance into the Roode Sand, a fertile valley producing corn, wine, raisins and other fruits. The river is the Kleineberg, which soon afterwards joins the Berg river, and with it empties itself into the sea at Saldanna Bay. The river passes from the Roode Sand, through a rocky and narrow passage, close to which, the road ascends the chain of hills, in a very abrupt manner, but the rock is so broken, that a carriage passes with difficulty. The waggon of the Cape is the only machine adapted for such roads. It is drawn as descending to the the Kloof, or pass; and a better idea may thereof be formed of it than by words. In the vicinity of the Cape, where the roads are good, horses are used, which are active and strong; these are driven eight in hand by a slave, who manages them chiefly by his whip, in the use of which many of them are so expert as to kill a bird flying with its lash. No separate reins are carried to the third pair of horses, but those of leaders are carried over their heads. When a journey is to be undertaken at a distance from the Cape, among the mountains and arid sands, instead of horses, bullocks are employed, whose patient perserverance is better adapted to the deprivations they must undergo. They will march in a level country, at the rate of three miles an hour, and continue to do so for ten or twelve hours without halting. The Roode Sand is distant about 80 miles from Cape town.""
Other persons
Salt, Henry, 1780-1827, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 6.TAB.74.