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

Title: The Cathcart Tree, Twelfth Pass, Waterkloof. Adelaide district, CP
Subject: Cathcart (South Africa) -- History
Subject: Cathcart, George, Sir, 1794-1854 -- Pictorial works
Subject: Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
Date Issued: 19uu
Date: 19uu
Type: still image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57472
Identifier: vital:26953
Identifier: This item is held by the Selmar Schonland Herbarium (GRA), Grahamstown, South Africa
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)."
Format: jpg
Format: Photograph (black and white) ; 10 x 15 cm (accompanied by text)
Language: English
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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