sentences:  Remnant patches of indigenous forest persist in the wetter ravines.However, much of the indigenous forest was felled by the early European settlers for fuel for the lime kilns needed during the construction of the Castle.The exact extent of the original forests is unknown, though most of it was probably along the eastern slopes of Devil's Peak, Table Mountain and the Back Table where names such as Rondebosch, Kirstenbosch, Klassenbosch and Witteboomen survive (in Dutch "bosch" means forest; and "boomen" means trees).