949 meters above sea level.
Murraysburg meander
When the first trekboers and hunters pushed their ox wagons over the mountain barriers which sweep from the Cederberg, the Swartruggens, the Witteberg and the Great Swartberg in a defending shield they came into close contact with the oldest surviving inhabitants of the Southern Africa, the Hottentots and the wary Bushman.
These people shared the ;Place of Great Dryness'.
They differed basically in their cultures and lifestyles, the Hottentots hearding their sheep and cattle in the age old pastoral pattern, and the Bushmen following their traditional nomadic pursuits of hunting and feasting.
European contact with the Hottentots went back to the early days of the Cape settlement.