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FICKSBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 319 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FICKSBURG , a See also:

town of See also:Orange See also:Free See also:State rio m. by See also:rail E. by N. of See also:Bloemfontein. Pop. (1904) 1954, of whom 1021 were whites. The town is situated near the See also:north See also:bank of the See also:Caledon See also:river and is the See also:capital of one of the finest agricultural and stock-raising regions of the See also:province. It has See also:direct railway communication with See also:Natal and an extensive See also:trade. In the neighbourhood are See also:petroleum See also:wells and a See also:diamond mine. In the fossilized See also:ooze of the Wonderkop, a table See also:mountain of the adjacent Wittebergen, are quantities of petrified See also:fish.

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