The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . ant aspect to the place. They were planted fromby Mr. Anthony Wilkinson, a veteran settler and sugarplanter, whose castle-like residence crowns the hill to theeastward of the station. His well-known mill and distilleryare within easy walk. The next estate of note in the vicinityis that of the Hon. Mr. G. Sinclair-Smith, , also aveteran planter, which lies to the eastward at the mouth of theGreat Umhlanga River, where there is some beautiful scenery. 127 The lagoon here is navigable for pleasure boats for two miles,
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . ant aspect to the place. They were planted fromby Mr. Anthony Wilkinson, a veteran settler and sugarplanter, whose castle-like residence crowns the hill to theeastward of the station. His well-known mill and distilleryare within easy walk. The next estate of note in the vicinityis that of the Hon. Mr. G. Sinclair-Smith, , also aveteran planter, which lies to the eastward at the mouth of theGreat Umhlanga River, where there is some beautiful scenery. 127 The lagoon here is navigable for pleasure boats for two miles,but the right of fishing is reserved by the proprietor. Thenext estate lies to the westward of the station. It is named Trenance, and is the property of Mr. W. Sykes, whose Phcenix Pstate has already been noted. This planter is anapt illustration of what hard, earnest, well-directed and long-sustained effort will do. From an overseer in the old days,he has, step b\ step, prospered, until he now owns one of thefinest estates in the county, and is engaged in the erection. of a large factory. The other estates worth} of note in thisdistrict are Muckle Neuk, which produces about ten tonsper diem, La Mercie, and Umhloti Central Mill and this \icinity there are numbers of small Indian maizeplanters. These are men who have completed their indenturedterm of servitude, and now contrive to make fairly goodlivings by gardening. Several families of French Creoles from Mauritius havealso settled here, and have erected neat little homes. 128 The Great Umhianga River, which meanders throuc^h thedistrict, is great only in name. For the most part its waterfilters through the sand banks. Here and there poolscontaining a kind of sand bream occur. Leaving Ottawa, the train speeds i)ast an open bush- ^<-•I?ulam, iQ:t niikS studded country, under a forty-feet viaduct, and through a fromtunnel of about 140 feet, at Kahtskop. This engineeringwork is from sixty to eighty feet under the s
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