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Encyclopedia Britannica



HARRISMITH

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 22 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HARRISMITH , a town in the Orange Free State, 6o m. N.W. by rail of Ladysmith,
Natal
 , and 240 M. N.E. of Bloemfontein via Bethlehem. Pop. (2904) 8300 (including troops 1921). It is built on the banks of the Wilge, 5250 ft. above the sea and some 20 M. W. of the Drakensberg. Three miles N. is the Platberg, a table-shaped mountain rising 2000 ft. above the town, whence an excellent
supply
  of water is derived. The town is well laid out and several of the streets are lined with trees. Most of the houses are built of white stone quarried in the neighbourhood. The Kaffirs, who numbered in 1904 3483, live in a separate
location. Harrismith has a dry, bracing climate and enjoys a
high reputation in South Africa as a health resort. It serves
one of the best-watered and most fertile agricultural and
pastoral
 
districts of the province, of which it is the
chief
  eastern trading
centre. Wool and hides are the principal exports.
Harrismith was founded in 1849, the site first chosen being on the Elands river, where the small town of Aberfeldig now is; but the advantages of the present site soon became apparent and the
settlement
  was removed. The founders were Sir Harry
Smith
  (after whom the town is named), then
governor
  of Cape
Colony, and Major Henry D. Warden, at that time Britisl
resident
  at Bloemfontein, whose name is perpetuated in tha of the principal street. In a cave about 2 M. from the town an well-preserved Bushman paintings.


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