Vaal

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index

Vaal, a river of South Africa, rises in the Drakenberg, and flows W. and SW. generally along the northern border of the Orange River Colony to its junction, after a course of some five hundred miles, with the Nu Gariep or Orange River. For the Vaal River Colony, see TRANSVAAL.

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