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FICKSBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 319 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FICKSBURG  , a

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town of Orange
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Free State rio m. by
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rail E. by N. of
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Bloemfontein . Pop . (1904) 1954, of whom 1021 were whites . The town is situated near the north
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bank of the
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Caledon
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river and is the capital of one of the finest agricultural and stock-raising regions of the province . It has
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direct railway communication with
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Natal and an extensive trade . In the neighbourhood are petroleum wells and a
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diamond mine . In the fossilized ooze of the Wonderkop, a table mountain of the adjacent Wittebergen, are quantities of petrified fish .

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