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Karooveld on Table Farm, 10km NW of Grahamstown

Field of Aloe ferox.

Karooveld on Table Farm, 10km NW of Grahamstown

Field of Aloe ferox.

Table Hill on 'Table Farm' (formerly Noutoe), 11km NW of Grahamstown, taken from the north

Karroid nature of the veld in the forefront with scattered bush.

Table Hill on 'Table Farm' (formerly Noutoe), 11km NW of Grahamstown, taken from the north

Karroid nature of the veld in the forefront.

Beside Cradock Road, Table Farm, 10km NW Grahamstown, Albany

Large spread of Mesembryanthemum protected by roadside fences. Does not survive outside fences.

Beside Cradock Road, Table Farm, 10km NW Grahamstown, Albany

Large spread of Mesembryanthemum protected by roadside fences. Does not survive outside fences.

Table Farm, 11km NW Grahamstown, Albany

Blue Tulp, Moraea polystachya at roadside. Several similar patches elsewhere along the roadside there. The blueness should be deeper than in the photograph.

South face of Highlands Mountain, 22km west of Grahamstown, 2nd highest point in the Albany district

Picture taken from the north with 'Taken Farm' homestead etc. behind the trees. 'Table Hill' is out of picture to the left. 'Noutoe', the origional name for 'Table Farm' was an important outspan place for waggoners to the east in the early 1700's, and later was a farming area from 1784.

View from the west of Table Hill on 'Table Farm', 11km NW of Grahamstown and in the Noutoe River valley which runs into the New Year's River out of picture to the left

This valley of Noutoe during the 1700's was a famous outspan place and later farming area for the first Dutch settlers.

View from the west of Table Hill on 'Table Farm', 11km NW of Grahamstown and in the Noutoe River valley which runs into the New Year's River out of picture to the left

The Noutoe River breaks through the bush-dotted hills on the horizon to the far right centre. This valley was used during the1700's as the main outspan to the east before entering the Great Fish River valley. The 'Grosvenor' rescue mission of 1783, with its 300 personnel and waggons etc, camped here for a fortnight. Dutch farmers settled here and were granted land in 1783.

Grey's Kloof Poort on Noutoe River at boundary between Table Farm and Slaaikraal farms, 10km west Grahamstown

This poort might well be the place which the Khoekhoe named Noutoe(=Swart Poort) from which the area's original name of the 1770's came into currency among whites.