The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

TUl'UGKAPKY OF XATAL. 185planned for a single narrow Hue. The main lino successively crosses all the transverseridges of the eastern slope. Xear the village of Westowu it attains anelevation of nearly 5,500 feet, but will have to climb about 300 feet higher inorder to reach the crest of the Drakenberg and p.'netrate into the Orange FreeState.The carriage roads, which complete the network of coiumunications in thecolony, are also planned with great skill and daring. Manj- of them skirt thedeep ravines and ascend the precipitous flanks of the main range in order to leachFig. oO.—TuE Bluif of Xat.u..Sc .le 1 : iJO.CHlO.Lsstgf Greenwich^1the level of the inland i)lateaiu\. Most of the main highways converge on PortNatal, where is centred all the foreign trade of the colony.Topography of N.\t.\i..The southern district between the Um-Tavuna and Um-Zimkulu rivers is oneof the most thinly peopled in Natal, and here the white squatters are still scatteredin small and isolated groups amid the surrounding Zulu and I'ondo populations.In this district has recently been founded the Norwegian agricultural settlement