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UITENHAGE , a See also:town of the Cape See also:province, See also:South See also:Africa, in the valley of the Zwartkops See also:river, 270 ft. above the See also:sea, 21 M. by See also:rail N.N.W. of See also:Port See also:Elizabeth. Pop. (1904), 12,193, of whom 668o were whites. It was founded in 1804 by De Mist, the Batavian See also:commissioner, who took over Cape See also:Colony from the See also:British in 1803. Many natives find employment in the See also:mills along the Zwartkops, where vast quantities of See also:wool from the See also:sheep farms of the eastern See also:part of the province are cleansed and forwarded for shipment at Port Elizabeth. Extensive railway See also:works are established here. There are in addition large See also:flower and See also:fruit nurseries. The town is laid out in rectangular blocks, and contains a handsome town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, See also:court-See also:house and public offices.
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