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NYLSTROOM

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 930 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NYLSTROOM , a See also:

town of the See also:Transvaal, See also:South See also:Africa, See also:capital of the Waterberg See also:district, and 81 m. N. of See also:Pretoria by See also:rail; See also:altitude 4250 ft. Pop. (1904) 599• It was founded about 186o and owes its name to the belief of the See also:early See also:Boer trekkers that the See also:river which they had discovered was the See also:head stream of the See also:Nile. The Waterberg See also:gold-See also:fields are 20 m. N.N.E. of the town.

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