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Excerpt from The Engineer in South Africa: A Review of the Industrial, Situation in South Africa After the War and a Forecast of the Possibilities of the Country The early portion of the book is in some degree controversial, and deals with the vexed problems which go to make up the practical side of the new South Africa. The later chapters are mainly descriptive, and treat of the more important engineering industries as carried on to-day, their possibilities and prospects. The author's line of argument may be summed up as follows -the passing of the sponge over the slate in South Africa, from a military and political point of view, has had the effect of alter ing, and, to some extent, effacing the commercial and industrial map of the country as we have known it. Some of the most familiar landmarks have been partially obliterated and others have sprung into being. The industrialist must draw a new map of South Africa, a map in which the present political boundaries will be of decreasing importance. The South Africa of the future will be ruled not by the seaports, or even necessarily by the coastal colonies, as in the past, but by the great industrial centres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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