Show corlou kock in A characteristic ferturo of mashona land the kopie kopje is frequently mentioned in the dispatches reporting tho engagements gage ments with tho matabele somo description ot these curious elevations is given in a letter to professor geikie from mr J B don formerly one of his pupils A uniform granite formation is ho says by far the most prominent geological peculiarity of mashona land and indeed of most of the interior of south africa sometimes it rises into mountains but usually the general level is only broken by low kopjes and in those parts where the bed rock and surface are flattest the kopjes present the most singular appearance the ahoe country seems whichever direction you look they gradually close in the view as the trunks of trees would in a forest some of these curbstones are feet or more high sheer all round and apparently of smaller diameter than height sometimes iho original mass has been so broken up as to form the most marvelous structures springing out of the rich foliage that grows in all the crevices native huts are built on these kopjes in almost inaccessible positions london news |