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SOUTH AFRICAN GOLDFIELDS
Sketch of the Mining and Other Resources of the Transvaal Republic

Author: [Campbell (W.Y.) et al]
Subject: MINING AND RELATED FIELDS
Published: London
Date: 1894
Price($): $340.00
Price(£): £190.00
Details: 23 pages, 8vo (215 x 140 mm), folding map, tables, white card wrappers soiled
Catalogue Number: 25
Book Number: #878/1
Description: S.A.B. 4:310 lists one copy only. The aim of this publication is to recruit settlers. In the section under 'Climate', for example, the author writes, 'Over seven-eighths of the State the climate is in every way adapted to the specially healthy existence of Europeans. Sober, shrewd artizans, and farmers with wives and families cannot have a healthier climate to seek and win fortune in, and found permanent homes in.' There are also sections on the goldfields, railways, land tenure, legal rights, currency and banking, cost of living, religions and emigrant's outfit.
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