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River ;iows midway through the farm, aud the river bed widens outr 

 considerably at> that point; extensive and very deep deposits of silt are 

 washed down and deposited anew all along the river course, serving a 

 an excellent soil for gardening. No. 1 forms a representative sample of 

 uch a deposit of very rich and deep soil, which, on most of the farma 

 lying along this river bed, is brought under irrigation by air-motors. 



The silt thus deposited by the Gouritz River is identical with that 

 tc which the whole of the Oudtshoorn Division owes its great fertility, 

 being brought down ultimately from the Karroo by the Olifants River 

 and other tributaries of the Gouritz. It is hardly open to doubt that, if 

 some scheme could be devised to intercept by means of retaining weir*- 



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or otherwise, the rich Oudtehoorn silt which these rivers are constantly 

 carrying into the sea, and to spread it over the adjacent farms of the- 

 Mossel Bay and Riversdale Divisions, great benefit to those areas would 

 result. 



Crossing the Gouritz River bridge, and leaving the main road, a* 

 course along the left bank of the river was taken, passing through Roode 

 Hoogte, the very fertile farm of Messrs. Muller Bros., the soil of which 

 U similar to that at Buffels Drift, lower down the river; then, proceed- 

 ing up the left bank of the tributary Langtouw River, to the farm, 

 Hemelrood, better known as Herbert's Dale quite a small village 



