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Encyclopedia Britannica



VRYHEID

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 221 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
VRYHEID , a town of northern
Natal
 , 291 M. by rail N. by W. of Durban. Pop. (1904) 2287, of whom 1344 were whites. It is the
chief
  town of a
district
 , of the same name,
rich
  in
mineral
  wealth, including copper, coal and gold. The coal-fields of Hlobane are S.E. of the town. Originally part of Zululand the
district
  of Vryheid was ceded by Dinizulu to a party of Boers under Lucas Meyer, who aided him to crush his opponents, and was proclaimed an independent state under the title of the New Republic in 1884. In 1888 it was incorporated with the Transvaal and in 1903 annexed to
Natal
  (see TRANSVAAL, History; and ZULULAND, History).
V-SHAPED DEPRESSION, in meteorology, a narrow area of low pressure usually occurring between two adjacent
anti
 -cyclones, and taking the form of a V or tongue, as do the isobars representing it on a weather-chart. Such a depression may be regarded as a projection from a cyclonic
system
  lying to one side of the two anticyclones. A similar depression, however, is frequently formed within a larger area of depression, i.e. an
ordinary
  cyclone, and sometimes develops so far as to have a complete circulation of its own; it is then known as a " secondary." The line of lowest depression following the
axis
  of the V brings with it heavy squalls and a sudden
change
  of wind from one direction almost to the opposite. It is pre-ceded by signs of break in the weather such as usually herald the approach of an
ordinary
  cyclone, and is followed by the usual signs of clearance. The occurrence of a V-depression or secondary within an ordinary cyclonic
system
  intensifies, often to a dangerous degree, the usual disturbances in the weather accompanying that system. Conditions exactly opposite to those accompanying a V-shaped depression are provided by a " wedge " (q.v.).


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