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Vaal
[ vahl ]
noun
- a river in S Africa, in the Republic of South Africa, flowing SW from the Transvaal to the Orange River. 700 miles (1,125 km) long.
Vaal
/ vɑːl /
noun
- a river in South Africa, rising in the Drakensberg and flowing west to join the Orange River. Length: 1160 km (720 miles)
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It was the Vaal river, running here broad and deep, and making Barkly West a pleasing instead of a dull place.
On the 24th the Vaal was crossed, and on the 31st Roberts entered Johannesburg.
Immediately south of Kroonstadt we crossed the Vaal River, with its fine high-level bridge reduced to atoms by dynamite.
In 1868 many enterprising colonists made their way up the Vaal River, and were successful in finding a good number of diamonds.
The prisoners were taken to an old and disused drift of the Vaal river and told to cross.
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