The New International Encyclopædia/Great Fish River (Cape Colony)

GREAT FISH RIVER. A river in Cape Colony, rising in the Sneeuwberg, or Snowy Mountains, and, after a generally southeasterly course of 230 miles, entering the Indian Ocean about 5 miles northeast of Port Alfred (Map: Cape Colony, K 8). A bar at its mouth renders it inaccessible to ships. The Midland Railway from Port Alfred and Port Elizabeth skirts its banks upward from Commadagga to Middleburg.