Identifier: natalprovincedes00tatl (find matches)
Title: Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Tatlow, A.H South African Railways. Publicity Dept
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: Durban, Natal : South African Railways Printing Works
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Proposed Museum, Pretoria Concerning the Transvaal The Transvaal Province lies between the 22nd and 28th parallel of South latitude, and the 25th and 32nd degrees of East longitude. The area of the country is 113,642 square miles. The population in 1899 was 167,150 men, 122,350 women — a total of 289,500 whites, and 589,126 natives; and in 1904 299,327 whites, and 969,389 natives including men and women. The southern portion of the Province is traversed from west to east by a high plateau, which forms the watershed between the rivers running south and those running north, of which the chief are the Vaal and the Limpopo. Besides this plateau, called the Hooge Veld, there are three mountain ranges which cross the country from west to east, of which the most northerly is called the Zoutpansberg, in the district of the same name. Detached ranges, which are continuations of the Drakensberg, extend from the Natal boundary across the Olifants River as far as the Limpopo, the northern limit of the
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Post Office, Pretoria Transvaal, and these rise in places to some 7,000 feet. Owing to the elevation of the country, which is over 4,000 feet above the sea, the climate is healthy, the winter being especially bracing. This season extends from April to August, and is generally dry. The monthly mean temperature during the summer ranges from 65 to 73 degrees, and during the winter from 59 to 65 degrees. The country is well-watered, as in the Orange Free State it is supplied with numerous pans and lakelets, the largest of which is Lake Chrissie, 36 miles in circumference. Horses, cattle, and sheep thrive well, and in the middle and northern parts of the Province vegetation is luxuriant, and many extensive forests occur.

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