The Cathcart Tree, Twelfth Pass, Waterkloof. Adelaide district, CP

Title: The Cathcart Tree, Twelfth Pass, Waterkloof. Adelaide district, CP
Creator: Unattributed
Date: 19uu
Description: Original caption "ILN Vol. 72 p, 509: 1878. (Melton Prior) Said to be the largest tree in the Waterkloof. In the Kaffir War, after some heavy fighting, Sir G. Cathcart had his name and the date carved on the tree. It lived until about 1875 when it began to die. It was about 150 ft. high and 29 ft. in circumference (i.e. 45.6 m high and 8.8 m round)."
Subject/s: Cathcart (South Africa) -- History; Cathcart, George, Sir, 1794-1854 -- Pictorial works; Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Language: English
Type: mixed material; photographs
Extent: Photograph (black and white) ; 10 x 15 cm (accompanied by text)
Source: Original materials held by the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University
Archive: Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University
Rights: Unattributed
Rights Holder: Unattributed
Use/re-use: Copyright may subsist in this material. Permission to reproduce, publish, or distribute must be obtained from the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57472

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