Kat River, a branch of the Great Fish River, in the Cape Colony, rising in the Didimaberg, in the fertile valley of which a Hottentot settlement was formed in 1829. It was broken up after the rebellion of 1851-52, and the valley now forms the district of Stockenström (after Captain Stockenström), with an area of 240 sq. m., and a mixed population of about 7000.
Kat River
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 400
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