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Encyclopedia Britannica



BARKLY WEST

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 403 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BARKLY WEST , a town of Cape province,
South
  Africa,21 m. N.W. of Kimberley,
capital
  of a
district
  and of an electoral division of the same name in Griqualand West. It is built on the right bank of the Vaal, here spanned by a bridge. Pop. (1904) 1037. Originally called Klipdrift, the town was the first founded by the diggers after the discovery in 1867 of diamonds along the valley of the Vaal, and it had for some years a large floating population. On the discovery of the " dry diggings " at Kimberley, the
majority
  of the diggers removed thither. Barkly West remains, however, the centre of the alluvial diamonds industry. The diamonds of this
district
  are noted for their purity and lustre, and are generally associated with other crystals garnets, agates, quartz and chalcedonies.
Barkly West electoral division includes the whole of Griqualand West save the Kimberley division. It is divided into the fiscal districts of Barkly West, Hay and
Herbert
 , with a total pop. (1904) of 48,388, of whom 12,170 are whites (see GRIQUALAND).


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