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(Aiig-hiabies ), wliich have a concentrated fall as great as this. 

 The nortli furrow — 12 feet l.jroad — had for its main objective 

 Paarden Island, which is one of the largest (~if the so-called 

 Orange River Islands, measuring about 1.800 morgen of the 

 richest alluvial deposit, of which about 800 to yoo are now 

 under irrigation. The whole extent of the land brought under 

 irrigation at Kakamas, north and south of the Orange, is about 

 2.500 morgen. The best description of the work from an irri- 

 gation engineer's point of view will be found in the reports to 

 the Cape Parliament by Mr. F. E. Kanthack, Director of Irriga- 

 tion, in lyo/ and 1911. The following is extracted from the 

 1911 report. ]jages 1-4; — 



The head regulator is a simple low masonry wall with a drop gate, 

 and is submerged during tlood. 



l)r\-sl<)iu' Walling. — Tyi)ical .Section. 

 .Scale: 1 in = 61 ft. 



