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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAND  , a Dutch word meaning border, edge, used in

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South
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Africa to designate a
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low rounded range of hills; specifically it is an abbreviated
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form of Witwatersrand, an elevated
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ridge in the
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southern
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Transvaal, forming the
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water-parting between the basins of the
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Orange and
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Limpopo . The Rand is famous for its
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gold-bearing reefs (see GOLD), and the word is often used as a synonym for the
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mining
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industry carried on over a
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great
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part of its
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area, or for
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Johannesburg (q.v.), the
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city which that industry created .

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