. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . tal, the remainder in the Orange FreeState. The Natal portion of the line is incomparablysteeper as it passes over the Drakensberg Mountains,rising over 2,000 feet between the Junction and theborder station. The scenery in Natal is on a grandscale, and no tourist should omit this journey fromhis itinerary. The Harrismith-Kroonstad line takesleave of the main line at the Orange Free StateJunction, one mile north of Ladysmith. In thevicinity are many notable positions held by bothBritish and Boers during the siege, this being about mi
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . tal, the remainder in the Orange FreeState. The Natal portion of the line is incomparablysteeper as it passes over the Drakensberg Mountains,rising over 2,000 feet between the Junction and theborder station. The scenery in Natal is on a grandscale, and no tourist should omit this journey fromhis itinerary. The Harrismith-Kroonstad line takesleave of the main line at the Orange Free StateJunction, one mile north of Ladysmith. In thevicinity are many notable positions held by bothBritish and Boers during the siege, this being about midway between theopposing forces. After clearing the Junction the line passes through an opencountry westward to the stopping places Smiths Crossing and Walkers Hoek,the latter point being ten miles distant. The Klip River being crossed, theDrakensberg is revealed in all its majesty. Huge as despair, as if in wearinessThe melancholy mountains yawn. At the base of the mountains are many large stock farms, and thousandsof sheep pasture on the spreading S is the first station on the branch, and is situated in the middle ofa large grazing district. At this point the first shots inthe Natal Campaign were fired, in a brush between the Natal volunteers and the enemy, on the 18th October, 1899. Passing towards Brakwal the intermediate halt of COLWORTH occurs. r AltitudeDistance 4005 miles. 229 230 BRAKWAL is beautiful in situation. In front, three-fold zig-zags of thef aitit,,^ . dR^7 f„„t \ reversing station may be seen, and it is interesting to note that, within the short space of half-an-hour the AltitudeDistance - 4637 feet.■ 218A miles. locomotive will have climbed a thousand feet. Mr. J. F. Ingram in The Colony of Natal has given so graphic adescription of the journey between Brakwal and Van Reenen that it is repeated,with the few amendments necessary to adapt it to the present time :- On the right the stately Drakensberg rises in terraces, piled steep on s
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