Scottish geographical magazine . name ishowever, sometimes specially reserved tor one of the three mamdivisions under which these territories have now been organised-namely, for that comprising Fingoland. the Idutywa Reserve andGealekaland The other divisions are-Griqualand East and Tem-buland. Tne small detailed District of Walvisch Bay, on theAtlantic coast, was proclaimed British in 1878. An area of 414,000 sq. miles is more than twice the size ofFrance, about eoual to twice the size of Germany, and muchmore than three times the extent of the British Islands Withouttaking account of the inh
Scottish geographical magazine . name ishowever, sometimes specially reserved tor one of the three mamdivisions under which these territories have now been organised-namely, for that comprising Fingoland. the Idutywa Reserve andGealekaland The other divisions are-Griqualand East and Tem-buland. Tne small detailed District of Walvisch Bay, on theAtlantic coast, was proclaimed British in 1878. An area of 414,000 sq. miles is more than twice the size ofFrance, about eoual to twice the size of Germany, and muchmore than three times the extent of the British Islands Withouttaking account of the inhabitants of Bechuanaland and the newlyannexed domains, there is in the Cape Colony and its dependen-cies a population of about 1,600,000, and in Natal , say, withBechuanaland. the population must therefore be well over 2 000 000Of these, some 300,000 are of European EnglishFrench, and German,mairdy The others include Kaffirs FingosandBechuanas. Hottentots and Griquas or Bastards, Bushmenand Malays :V,KI-: b^A. Scottish Geographical Magazine. 1885. THE SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. RAPIDS AND George G. Chisholm, , , The study of rivers is little fitted to support the idea that the earth wasmade for the comfort and convenience of man. Much as man owes torivers, there is no physical feature that causes him more trouble, no gift ofnature perhaps is clogged with so many and so various drawbacks. Themouths of rivers get silted up and encumbered with bars; their beds areoften full of shifting shallows; in summer they may even dry up to suchan extent as to be useless for navigation, or they may flow in regions soarid that they are useless for that purpose all the year round. Evenwhere they are sufficiently full-flooded to be capable of carrying at alltimes richly-laden argosies, they may wind about with a course so tortuousas greatly to impair their value as channels of communication ; theircurrent may be so swift that they are of no
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