The southern entrance to Durban harbour is marked by a bold bluff, the Bluff of Natal, which is 250 ft.
Although the division of the country into terraces separated by ranges of hills is clearly marked in various districts, as for instance between Durban and Colenso, the province is traversed by many secondary chains, as well as by spurs of the Drakensberg.
A fourth range also diverges from Giant's Castle and ramifies in various branches over a large tract "of country, one branch running by Pietermaritzburg to the Berea hills overlooking Durban.
The mean temperature at Durban, records taken at 260 ft.
At Durban the annual rainfall is about 40 in., at Pietermaritzburg 38.