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MOSSEL BAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 903 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAY , the name of a bay, See also:town and See also:division of the Cape See also:province, See also:South See also:Africa. The bay lies midway between Table Bay (Cape Town) and See also:Port See also:Elizabeth roadstead. Like most of the South See also:African bays it does not afford See also:good anchorage. Westward, however, it is sheltered by Cape St Blaize, on which is a lighthouse. The town lies on the See also:west See also:side of the bay, Cape St Blaize stretching beyond to the S.E. Mossel Bay is 250 M. by See also:sea and 312 M. by See also:rail E. by S. of Cape Town. Pop. (1904), 4500. The port ranks See also:fourth in importance among the seaports of the Cape and does a large forwarding See also:trade. Vessels load and See also:discharge by means of lighters. Mossel Bay is a station on the See also:direct Cape Town–Port Elizabeth railway. The Mossel Bay division of the province has an See also:area of 707 sq. m., and a See also:population (1904) of 10,700, of whom 49 % were whites.

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