FICKSBURG

ficksburg, a town of orange free state 110 m. by rail e. by n. of bloemfontein. pop. (1904) 1954, of whom 1021 were whites. the town is situated near the north bank of the caledon river and is the capital of one of the finest agricultural and stock-raising regions of the province. it has direct railway communication with natal and an extensive trade. in the neighbourhood are petroleum wells and a diamond mine. in the fossilized ooze of the wonderkop, a table mountain of the adjacent wittebergen, are quantities of petrified fish.