The area depicted here fell within the newly proclaimed Province of Queen Adelaide. Fort Cox, overlooking the Kieskamma River and the Amatola Valley, had been constructed in August 1835 by Captain Stretch.

This copy, of Tylden's original map (12th July 1853), has been used the show proposed alternations to the waggon road and the bridle path between Fort Hare and Keiskamma Hoek Post. Apparently by the time the later copy ...