Companys Journal.Although a later writer speaks of the walledriver, so wonderfully picturesque as it lies belowthe old house, being made at the end of the 150 EARLY GRANTS OF LAND eighteenth century, I think it probably belongsto Elzeviers period. It brings us back to a veryearly time, when the… … WALLED RIVER, ELSENBERG. that sweeps downward towards Stellenbosch.It was an artistic thought indeed which promptedthe old founder to enclose the policy of his housewithin low walls, detaching it from the limitlessmountain side, much as an artist rules a lineto cut off his drawing from a waste of…
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