— American Trade.— Slips under neutral Flags and Britijh Capitals. — Situation of
Batavian Republic refpeSing the Cape.— Intereßs of the Baß India Company.—
Cape conßdered as an Emporium o f Baßem Produce— Objections to it— attended with-
Lofs to the Crown— and Injury to the London Market.— Remedy.— Trade from the
Cape— to the Weft Indies-to the Brazils— at the Difcretion o f the Company.— .America—
Holland— France— Advantages o f the Cape as furniflnng Exports— Gram
and Pulfe— Wine and Brandy-Wool— Hides and Skins— Whale Oil and Bone—
dried Fruits—fait Provifions— Soap and Candles-—Aloes— Ivory— Tobacco.—.Total
Value o f Exports in four Years.— Imports from England what—from India and
China— by foreign Nations.— Table o f Imports.— Balance of Imports over Exports^
State o f the Colony Relapfe into Poverty— Commercial Advantages not Important
to Great Britain— eonftdered as a Dépôt fo r the Southern Whale Fißsery.
Eftdblifhment o f this Fifhery— might■ be exclufively. in our Hands■ through the Cape.
— Black Whale— Spermaceti.— Bounties.— Seal Fifhery in the Hands o f Americans,
— inducementfor them to difpofe o f their Skins.— Conclufton. - I?ag e 16^
C H A P ; VI.
Topographical Defcription and Statiftical Sketch of the Cape-
Settlement.
G e n e r a l D e s c r i p t i o n .— Dimenfions.— Extent. — S'.il. Climate.—Winds.— Scarcity
o f Water.— Permanent Rivers enumerated and defcribed. Mountains. Divi-
Rons, Population, and Produce.— Provincial Judicature. D i s t r i c t o f t h e
■ C ape— Extent o f and Quantity o f Land under Cultivation. — Cape Town.— Stock,
Produce, and Population afcertained by the Opgaaff.— Births and Mortality—
Criminals— Natural ProduBs o f the! Cape DiftriS— D i s t r i c t o e S t e l l e n b
o s c h a n d D r a k e n s t e i n — Extent and Divifions of .— The Drofdy or Village
Situation and Produce of the other Diwftom o f this D iß r ia— Stock and Bopulatiok
of, according to the O p g a a f f .— D i s t r i c t o f Z w e l l e n d a -m — Dimenfions, E x tent,
and Divifions o f- th e Drofdy or Village of— Situation and Produce of the other
Divifions Stock and Population according to the Opgaaff.— D i s t r i c t o f G r a a f
R a y n e t .Dimenfions. Extent, and Divifions of— Drofdy or Village of-Situation
and Produce o f the other Divifions o f this Dißriri— Stock and Population according
to'
to the Opgaaff.— T e n u r e s o f L a n d s .— Loan Farms, Nature and Number of.
Gratuity Lands.— Quit Rents.— Freeholds.— Reafons againjl Improvement of Efiates
in the Cape.— Property frequently changes Hands.— C o n d i t i o n o f t h e I n h a b
i t a n t s .— Necejfaries of Life obtained •without Exertion.— Four Clajfes o f Colonijls
— -Thofe o f the Town, Condition of. —Faxes and AJfeJfments moderate. — Tythes or
Church Rates none— no Poor Rates.— Police conduced by a College o f Burghers—
their Functions — NegleB and Ahufes o f— Improvement fuggffied.— Indifference o f
the Colonijls fo r rational Amufements.— The Wine Gro wers, Condition-and Re-
fources o f - State o f their Outgoings and Returns.— Fafy Terms o f purchafing EJlates.
— Corn Boors, Condition of— State of their Outgoings and Returns— Graziers,
indolent and helplefs Condition o f - their bad CharaBer—fib jeB to no Taxes— State
o f Outgoings and Returns.— R e v e n u e s o f G o v e r n m e n t Natureofthe thirteen
Heads of, and Table- o f their Amount fo r fo u r fucceffive Tears.— J u r i s p r u d e n c e .
— Nature and Conjlitution of the Court - its Members.— Civil Caufes.— Attornies.-
— Office o f Fifcal.— Courtof Commffaries fo r petty Suits, and matrimonial Affairs.
— The Weefkammer, or Chamber fo r managing the EffieBs o f Minors and Orphans•:
— its EunBions.— Fi f . l i g i o n , that o f the Reformed Church.— Lutherans and others
barely tolerated. —Condition of the Clergy— Duties of— direB the Funds raifed for-
the Relief o f the Poor— are Curators of the"public"School.— Atnount. o f Church
Funds.—- I m p r o v e m e n t s s u g g e s t e d , by ttye IntroduBion o f Chinefe— eafily
ffeBed by the Britifh Government— by Moravian Edablifhments o f Hottentots in
the diflant Parts — by enclojihg the Farms - leacUngtheir Fines up Props or Efpalter s .-
— New Sydem in the Tillage o f Corn {Lands.-^EJlabliJhment o f Fairs or Markets,.
and ereBing q f Pillages—- ConfequenGes q f ttyfe.^ConchiBpn.. - Page 324^