younger van der Stel, wasin all respects larger, higher and grander thanVergelegen . . . who then would have sup- 119 OLD CAPE COLONY posed that fault would have been found with thehouse of the Governor. Meerlust is still a statelypile amongst the simpler surrounding farms. Ariver runs through the… … MEERLUST, EERSTE RIVIER. in which Simon and his wagon once stuck, as herelates in an early despatch dated from Meerlust.However much the house may have been improvedin later years, the ground plan, for a seventeenthcentury colonial farm, indeed, for a farm any-where, is unusual enough. Most of the…
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