. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . dual slope towestward, culminating in the rugged scenery of the Drakensberg. From ascenic point of view the situation is an ideal one, the highest summit in Natalis seen towering grandly to the sky. The district is eminently suitable forcattle and sheep farming, and there are generally good agricultural farmsunder the Berg. At MOORLEIGH HALT there is a German Mission Station. WINTERTON, the terminus of the line, is an agricultural settlement having the benefit of an irrigation scheme, somewhat onthe same lines as Weenen, the terminu
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . dual slope towestward, culminating in the rugged scenery of the Drakensberg. From ascenic point of view the situation is an ideal one, the highest summit in Natalis seen towering grandly to the sky. The district is eminently suitable forcattle and sheep farming, and there are generally good agricultural farmsunder the Berg. At MOORLEIGH HALT there is a German Mission Station. WINTERTON, the terminus of the line, is an agricultural settlement having the benefit of an irrigation scheme, somewhat onthe same lines as Weenen, the terminus of the narrow Altitude -DisUinec - 3354 miles gauge line. The scheme was commenced in 1902, and completed in 1905, when the landwas thrownopen for settle-ment. The wa-ter is suppliedby a furrow, 18miles in length,from the LittleTugela. Thereare some 5,000acres underwater, and theland is cut upinto blocks ofDairy st0Gk about 75 acres each. A village has been laid out in a central position, and everywhere in the locality the air is dry and 311Dundee and Vryheid Branch Formerly this branch terminated a1 thi il-fieli en am lalf mil< Prom the junction. It has now been extended to Vryheid (60 mileGleneoe). The line as far as Dundee does nol boasl of any sceni situated very picturesquely on the BiggaiRange, a1 an elevation of 4,100 feet above level, and 237 miles by rail fr< Durban, and about 80 miles from the border al Charlestown. The Town is very prettily located, being built on gentle slopiiand surrounded with high hills, viz. : Indumeni about 6,000 feet high, Imp5,260, and Talana 4,500. The latter hill being the scene oi the first engage-ment during the late Boer War ; this fact alone should make this part ofNatal of considerable interest to visitors. The affairs of the Borough are controlled by a Mayor and Corporation,who take care that the townspeople are supplied with the purest water, ofwhich there is an abundant supply from the neighbouring hills.
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