The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . ar brooklet flows. On everyhand bright water drips from rock to rock, and tiny cascadesspring over ledges fringed with maidenhair fern and place is named Sweetwaters, and is a favourite resorton holidays, when the train stops to meet the convenienceof the public. Winters Kloof, adjoining Sweetwaters, is merely a continuation of again the trainstops on public holi-days. Boshoffs Road,79J miles from Dur-ban, and 3,407 feetabove the sea, is aside station possess-ing but few featuresof especial interest.
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . ar brooklet flows. On everyhand bright water drips from rock to rock, and tiny cascadesspring over ledges fringed with maidenhair fern and place is named Sweetwaters, and is a favourite resorton holidays, when the train stops to meet the convenienceof the public. Winters Kloof, adjoining Sweetwaters, is merely a continuation of again the trainstops on public holi-days. Boshoffs Road,79J miles from Dur-ban, and 3,407 feetabove the sea, is aside station possess-ing but few featuresof especial spot was namedafter the late ,,who made a roadover the Zwaartkopmany years view to thenorth-east from thisstation extends farinto Umvoti County,where the BlinkwaterMountain, like ahuge Glengarry cap, is visible on clear days. In the vicinityof this mountain the German village of New Planover islocated. After leaving the last station a marked increase isnoticeable in wattle-bark culture. At Hilton Road Station, 811 miles from Durban, and. NATIVES WITH SHIELDS AND SPEARS. 218 3,702 feet above the sea, a company has been formed for theproduction of this important article of export. A college ofconsiderable popularity has for many years been conductedin the vicinity, and the name of Mr. H. V. Ellis, so longassociated with it, is widelyrespected in the this institution manybright lads have gone forthinto the world well equippedto fight the battle of life. Hilton Road impressesitself on the mind as theplace of places, in the vicinityof Maritzburg, for the erectionof a sanatorium. From itsaltitude and the nature ofits soil, it is in every respectsuitable for the restorationof convalescents. Leaving Hilton Road, theline traverses a series ofexalted plateaux, whose un-dulating surfaces are markedin places by plantationsand farms. Broad fields of forage and
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