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Encyclopedia Britannica



PAARL

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 431 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
PAARL , a town of the Cape Province,
South
  Africa, 36 m. by rail E.N.E. of Cape Town. Pop. (1904), 11,293. The town is situated on the west bank of the Berg river, some 400 ft. above the sea. It stands on the coast plain near the foot of the Drakenstein mountains. West of the town the Paarl Berg rises from the plain. The berg is crowned by three
great
  granite boulders, known as the Paarl, Britannia and Gordon Rock. The town is beautifully situated amid gardens, orange groves and vineyards. The
chief
  public buildings are the two Dutch Reformed churches, the old church being a good specimen of colonial Dutch architecture, with gables, curves and thatched roof. Paarl is a thriving agricultural and viticultural centre, among its
industries
  being the manufacture of wine and brandy, wagon and carriage building and harness making.
South
 -
east
  of the town are granite quarries. The wines produced in the
district
  are among the best in South Africa, ranking second only to those of Constantia.
The Paarl is one of the oldest European towns in South Africa. It
dates
  from 1687, the site for the new
settlement
  being chosen by the
governor
 , Simon van der Stell. It was named Paarl by the first settlers from the fancied resemblance of one of the boulders on the top of the hill, when glistening in the sun, to a gigantic pearl. Shortly afterwards several of the Huguenots who had sought
refuge
  at the Cape after the revocation of the edict of Nantes were placed in the new
settlement
 . The present inhabitants are largely descended from these Huguenots.


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