and sandier, No. 5, was collected four miles further on, at Palmiet, part 

 of the farm Moeras River. Between these two points there are a few 

 patches of granite soil, but the predominating clay is soon reached again. 

 Sample No. 6 was procured at Modder River, near the entrance to the 

 village of Blanco. This soil, which is chemically poor except as regards 

 nitrogen, appears to be derived from the band of slate which stretches 

 eastwards, north of Blanco : it is typical of the stiffer clay soils which 

 skirt the southern slopes of the Outeniqua Mountains, between the Great 

 Brak River and George, the coast soil being of a sandy nature and sweet, 

 whereas the intermediate belt, from which samples 3 and 4 were taken, is 

 a mixture of the two classes of soil. Of the sandy belt a sample, No. 7, 

 was taken from the granite formation near Pacaltsdorp, on the farm 

 Hans Moes Kraal, at a distance of about five miles by road from George: 

 this also is an all-round poor soil. A sample of sandy clay, No. 8, resem- 

 bling the soil taken at Blanco, and lying on an extension of the band of 

 slate already referred to, was collected from the Outspan Reserve about 

 12 miles by road east of George. Another similar sample, No. 9, was 



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DIVISIONAL MAP 



GEORGE. 



taken about three miles nearer Knysna, from Woodville, the faxm of Mr. 

 J. Stevens. Tobacco has been cultivated here to some extent, and good 

 results are said to have been achieved as regards potatoes by the use of 

 basic slag. At Di f p River, three miles from Woodville, sample No. 10 

 was collected. This soil, together with Nos. 1 and 2 of the Knysna. Divi- 

 sion soils, are representative of what has been called the intermediate 

 b^lt of soil.* According to the analysis the soil of which No. 10 was a 

 sample is apparently well supplied with nitrogen, but poor in other 

 respects. 



Returning to George, and crossing the Montagu Pass, where Table 

 Mountain sandstone is entered upon, a sandy tract of country is passed 

 over on the farms Doom Rivier and Soldaats Kraal overgrown with rhe- 

 noster bush, alternating further on with proteas. Here we touch the 

 western end of the long valley known as the Long Kloof, which stretches 

 between the sandstone mountains for a distance of over one hundred 

 miles, through this division and the adjacent division of Uniondale into 



See also page 29. 



