The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . *f^W Ferneyhottsh refractory description will not militate against their value,since the establishment of successful chemical processes for therecovery of gold. The value of these latter has been amplydemonstrated on the Witwatersrand Fields. Much of theforegoing, as stated in the opening of the Section, is the resultof the writers personal observations, but extensive use has beenmade of an interesting and authentic work on Natal from thepen of Mr. Henry Brooks.* This work is undoubtedly avaluable one, and its perusal is


The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . *f^W Ferneyhottsh refractory description will not militate against their value,since the establishment of successful chemical processes for therecovery of gold. The value of these latter has been amplydemonstrated on the Witwatersrand Fields. Much of theforegoing, as stated in the opening of the Section, is the resultof the writers personal observations, but extensive use has beenmade of an interesting and authentic work on Natal from thepen of Mr. Henry Brooks.* This work is undoubtedly avaluable one, and its perusal is strongly The heavy timber forests of Natal are estimated at 165,900 * Published bv L. Ree\e & Co., London. 56 acres, and Thonibush and low forests at 1,841,000 acres. Thehigh timber forests arc for the (greater part situated aloni^ theDrakensberf^ Kani^e of Mountains, mostl\- on the southern slopes,at an elevation of 3,500 to 6,000 feet, where the mean annualtemperature ranges from 52° to 59. The upright Yellow-wood(Podocarpus Thunbergii) her


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