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IN this first report, drawn up by Mr. H. Kynaston and his colleagues, we see the prospect of healthy rivalry between the geologists of Cape Colony and of the newly acquired territories to the north. No time has been lost in issuing one of those small folio volumes, the form of which, however unsuited to our bookshelves, probably recalls to the Government printers the blue-books of the old home-country. No time has been lost, moreover, in the prosecution of researches which furnish something worthy to record, and the results have here been illustrated on an excellent and liberal scale. Topographic work has been undertaken where existing surveys are deficient, and it seems probable that the geologists will run ahead, for some years to come, of the accurate mapping of the country. The beds dealt with are, firstly, the Pretoria series of quartzites and shales, which must have a high antiquity; secondly, the Waterberg. sandstones and grits, which are now for the first time proved to be distinctly unconformable on the Pretoria series; and thirdly, the Karroo system, or rather systems, which opened under Glacial conditions, and were laid down on the denuded surface of the folded Waterberg series.
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COLE, G. The Exploration of the Transvaal 1 . Nature 71, 55–57 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071055d0
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