The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . % and refectory. On the outskirts of the village, facing towards the west,arc the school and mission buildings. On the south side isan asylum for all such as love the cloister or monastic life,but who for want of true avocation feel themscKes unequal •55 to the vows of the rcL^nilar monks. lhc monastic estateconsists of about 7,000 acres o( land. About fifteen miles ofgood road ha\e already been made, and numerous damsconstructed for the preserxation of water. Su/ sitoitio is the Trappists motto, and however divergentone


The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . % and refectory. On the outskirts of the village, facing towards the west,arc the school and mission buildings. On the south side isan asylum for all such as love the cloister or monastic life,but who for want of true avocation feel themscKes unequal •55 to the vows of the rcL^nilar monks. lhc monastic estateconsists of about 7,000 acres o( land. About fifteen miles ofgood road ha\e already been made, and numerous damsconstructed for the preserxation of water. Su/ sitoitio is the Trappists motto, and however divergentones religious views may be from theirs, it is but bare justiceto them to say that in their silence they have laboured, andtheir labour has brought fortli plentifully. Leaving Pinetown, the line skirts the lower part (jf thesettlement for some distance, and then commences the ascent. ^NTZ KLOOF. Kranti- of Fields Hill, where, at Krantz Kloof Station, the country Kloof, 22i miles assumes an entireU new appearance. Broad, grassy and from » 1 1 •- Durban, roundcd hills seamed with deep ravines and belts of dark- Ak. 1,808 ft. ^ tinted forest, replace the semi-tropical foliage which prevailsbetween Pinetown and Durban. White fogs and cool bracingbreezes prevail in this locality. The fruits of Bellair andMalvern no longer thrive, while cereals and vegetables, such •56


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