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the railroad. There is not much difference between these soils and those 

 from Elsenburg, already alluded to; the Elsenburg soils, like these, lie 

 on Malmesbury slates. 



(Privately collected.) 



Eerste River. 



No. Field Cornetcy. 



25. Klapmuts. 



26. 



27. Stellenbosch. 



28. 



29. 



30. 



31. 



32. 



33. 



34. 



35. 



36. 



37. 



38. 



39. Helderberg. 



40. Hottentot's Holland. 



Farm or place. 

 Nooitgedacht. 



Zand Drift. 



Thelma. 



Neethlingshof. 



Eerste River Station. 



Govt. Forest Plantation. 



Collector. 

 C. P. Lounsbury. 



C. Mayer. 



A. 

 D. 



H. Mathew. 

 E. Hut chins. 



Saxenburg. 



)) 



Kuiken Vallei. 

 Fair View. 



J. C. deWaal. 



J.W. L! Hofmeyr. 

 J. Cairncross. 



Nos. 25 and 26 were two red clayey soils from Nooitgedacht, rather 

 different from the others taken on the same farm ; they were taken from 

 a vineyard on the hillside to the left of the main road from Stellenbosch, 

 where probably they would be largely influenced by the disintegration of 

 the granite from the Bottelary Berg. These two samples did not repre- 

 sent the whole of the vineyard soil, but only patches of reddish soil, 

 termed in the vernacular " red dead ground " where vines had never 

 flourished, and were showing signs of dying out. No. 25 was taken from 

 a depth of from six to nine inches. No. 26 was a clay from three feet 

 deep. Here, unlike the ca&e of the Graaff-Reinet soils and that of No. 

 23 of the Paarl soils, it appeared to be the chemical condition of the 

 soil that was at fault, and net the physical alone, if indeed at all. The 

 fact seemed to be that the nutrition of the vines was defective, if the 

 poverty of the soil is any criterion, both samples being deficient in all 

 plant food; they closely resembled in this respect some primary granitic 

 soils analysed by Dr. Hahn several years ago, in which the granite had 

 not been completely decomposed. The results of some of these analysis 

 ,are here given : 



Locality. Lime. 



Groot Constantia 



High Constantia 



-025 



-008 



-002 



'081 



Hout Bay '016 



'026 



Eerste River (Vlaggeberg) '018 



'181 



'063 



Stellenbosch '014 



Somerset West '034 



080 



Potash. 



on 



020 

 013 

 043 

 002 

 012 

 010 

 017 

 004 

 019 

 029 

 025 



Phosphoric 

 oxide. 

 009 

 019 

 019 

 075 

 002 

 Oil 

 Oil 

 Oil 

 007 

 002 

 trace, 

 trace. 



Two samples of vineyard soils Nos. 27 and 28 of which No. 28 had 

 been manured with basic slag, were taken on the farms Zand Drift and 

 Thelma, in the immediate vicinity of the town of Stellenbosch, and from 



