, was once that of thecaballer Claas Diepenaaw, granted him in 1693by Simon van der Stel, and by him called De 157 OLD CAPE COLONY Enzaamheid, or the Solitary. Jan van Meerlandhad been granted by Willem Adriaan the farm ofMeerendal in the Tygerberg, three miles north-east of the modern village of… … VREDENBERG IN THE MODDERGAT. old house is quite modernized and ordinary, butthe view from it is superb, and as you gaze at theroads, still sandy, and crossing drifts whose stonybeds may upset the unwary, you marvel at boththe energy and the leisure of these eighteenthcentury men who appear to have…
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