Orange River Definition

Orange River Sentence Examples

• Crossing the Orange River at this spot in September 1848, Sir Harry noted that it was "a beautiful site for a town," and in the May following the town was founded.

• The annexation of the Orange River Sovereignty in 1848 followed, finally destroying his hope of maintaining independent native states.

• The town lies north of the Drakensberg on the Kraai tributary of the Orange river at an elevation of 5831 ft.

• On every side it is surrounded by British colonies, north by the Orange River Colony, south-west and south by Cape Colony, and east by Natal.

• Epidemics of smallpox and typhoid occur; and leprosy, imported from the Orange River and Cape Colonies, has taken firm hold on the Basuto, of whom about 9r per too() are sufferers from this disease.