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Identifier: canadianschoolge00corn (find matches)
Title: Canadian school geography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cornish, George A. (George Augustus), 1872-
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London Toronto : Dent
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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tities ismined in other parts of the Transvaal, and in Southern Rhodesia.The diamond mines are situated in and near Kimberley in the Capeof Good Hope. Cape Town, situated in the south-west corner of the Cape ofGood Hope Province, is one of the oldest towns in South Africa,and the centre of English life in the Union. Owing to the factthat the westerlies blow over this corner of Africa during thewinter (June to August) there is a good rainfall, and wheat, grapes,and oranges are grown. Cape Town is a terminus of the railwayswhich run north into the interior and is an important collectingand distributing centre. The Parliament of the Union of SouthAfrica meets in Cape Town, but the Government ofifices are atPretoria in the Transvaal. Sec. 573. Communications.—There are few good roads in Africa.In the forests of Equatorial Africa narrow, trodden paths are theonly means of transportation by land, and all freight is carried onthe backs of natives. In the Sahara goods are transported on the
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FIG. 227. AFRICA, SHOWING CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY The part completed is barred black and white alternately. .\11 other rail-ways are shown bv double lines with transverse bars. British possessionsare white, other parts blackandwhite. AFRICA 417 backs of camels, which are driven across the desert in large com-panies called caravans. The commodities from the region south ofthe Sahara are collected at Timbuktu, on the Niger River. Fromthis point the caravans strike across the desert to Morocco,Algeria, and Tunis. Railways are confined to the districts directly under the controlof Europeans, and are most numerous in South Africa. As mostof the railways connect the interior localities with the ocean ports,and as the highlands come close to the coast the gradients on therailways are very steep, and heavy loads are impossible. )\Iost ofthe raihvaj-s of Africa are of much narrower gauge than those inCanada, and, accordingly, the locomotives and cars are smaller. Sec. 574. The Cape to Cairo Rail

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