BARKLY See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

WEST  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of Cape See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province, See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa,21 m . N.W. of See also:

• KIMBERLEY
• KIMBERLEY, JOHN WODEHOUSE, 1ST EARL OF (1826-1902)

Kimberley, See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of a See also:

• DISTRICT

district and of an electoral See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the same name in Griqualand See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West . It is built on the right See also:

• BANK

bank of the See also:

• VAAL

Vaal, here spanned by a See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge . Pop . (1904) 1037 . Originally called Klipdrift, the town was the first founded by the diggers after the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery in 1867 of diamonds along the valley of the Vaal, and it had for some years a large floating See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population . On the discovery of the " dry diggings " at Kimberley, the See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of the diggers removed thither . Barkly West remains, however, the centre of the alluvial diamonds See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry . The diamonds of this district are noted for their purity and lustre, and are generally associated with other crystals— garnets, agates, See also:

• QUARTZ

quartz and chalcedonies . Barkly West electoral division includes the whole of Griqualand West See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save the Kimberley division . It is divided into the fiscal districts of Barkly West, See also:

• HAY
• HAY (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Heu, Dutch hooi; the root from which it is derived, meaning " to cut," is also seen in " to hew "; cf. " hoe ")
• HAY, GEORGE (1729—1811)
• HAY, GILBERT
• HAY, JOHN (1838–1905)

Hay and See also:

• HERBERT (FAMILY)
• HERBERT, GEORGE (1593-1633)
• HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM
• HERBERT, SIR THOMAS (1606-1682)

Herbert, with a See also:

• TOTAL

total pop . (1904) of 48,388, of whom 12,170 are whites (see GRIQUALAND) .