South Africa: A Study in Colonial Administration and DevelopmentMethuen & Company, 1895 - 266 strán (strany) |
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... feet above sea level to 3000 feet . Here horned cattle are depastured , and maize -but not corn - is grown . And , lastly , there are the uplands , rising from 3000 feet in elevation to 5000 feet , where they spring into the Drakensberg ...
... feet above sea level to 3000 feet . Here horned cattle are depastured , and maize -but not corn - is grown . And , lastly , there are the uplands , rising from 3000 feet in elevation to 5000 feet , where they spring into the Drakensberg ...
Strana 84
... feet 5 inches . By various harbour works 7 feet 7 inches have been gained , and the maximum draught registered in 1892 was 19 feet 9 inches a depth which will admit all but the largest class of ocean - going steamers . I need only speak ...
... feet 5 inches . By various harbour works 7 feet 7 inches have been gained , and the maximum draught registered in 1892 was 19 feet 9 inches a depth which will admit all but the largest class of ocean - going steamers . I need only speak ...
Strana 121
... feet . It is not surprising , therefore , that the interior districts , form- ing two - thirds of settled South Africa , should have no * Chap . I. p . 3 . regular or periodic rainfall . Moreover , owing to the AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL ...
... feet . It is not surprising , therefore , that the interior districts , form- ing two - thirds of settled South Africa , should have no * Chap . I. p . 3 . regular or periodic rainfall . Moreover , owing to the AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL ...
Strana 129
... feet in the course of a year . " Lastly there is the evidence of the wine industry . Baron Karl von Babo , the son of the Austrian expert in viti- culture , was commissioned by the Cape Government in 1885 to visit and report upon the ...
... feet in the course of a year . " Lastly there is the evidence of the wine industry . Baron Karl von Babo , the son of the Austrian expert in viti- culture , was commissioned by the Cape Government in 1885 to visit and report upon the ...
Strana 133
... feet is studded here and there by stunted bushes . Such is the Veldt , and such is the characteristic landscape of two - thirds of settled South Africa . Yet even so the human spectator experiences no sense of depression ; for over his ...
... feet is studded here and there by stunted bushes . Such is the Veldt , and such is the characteristic landscape of two - thirds of settled South Africa . Yet even so the human spectator experiences no sense of depression ; for over his ...
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