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MASERU

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 836 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MASERU  , the

capital of Basutoland,
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British South Africa . It is pleasantly situated on the
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left
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bank of the
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Caledon
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river, 90 m. by
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rail E. by S. of
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Bloemfontein, and 40 M . N.E. of
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Wepener . It is in the centre of a fertile grain-growing
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district . Pop . (1904), 862, of whom 99 were Europeans . The
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principal buildings are Government House, the church of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, the hospital, and the railway station .

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