pains are beftowed to keep up a fucceffion of young trees. No-
further trials have yet been made for coal.
In the firft chapter of the former volume, I fuggefted feveral
articles that appeared to be fuitable to the climate of the Cape,
and in the laft chapter mentioned the fuccefs that had attended
the trial of many of them. Since that was written I had an opportunity,
among many other Engtiih gentlemen,, of giving a
fair trial to the common Lucern, the Medicagafativa, and found
it to anfwer beyond all expectation, whether thinly fown in
drills or tranfplanted. It was cut down and grew again, to the
height of eighteen inches every fix weeks throughout the year,
except in the months of July, Auguft, and September, when it
remained nearly ftationary. Mr. Duckett, the agriculturift,
found the common burnet, Poterium Sanguiforba, to fucceed
equally well on dry grounds. The advantages of thefe two
plants, as filmmer food for cattle and Iheep, would be incalculable
to a people who knew how to. avail themfelves of them,
and in a country where all verdure difappears for four months
in the year. But it may be obferved, with regard to the in-
troduftion of thefe and other foreign articles, that until a fuller
population of white inhabitants' fhall oblige them to habits of
induftry, it would be in vain to expeft any encouragement to
additional refources, or improvement of thofe they have. long,
poffeffed.
D i s t r i c t
D i s t r i c t of S t e l l e n b o s c h and D r a k e n s t e i n .
Stellenbofch and Drakenftein, though one (3iftri£t under the
jurifdiftion of one Landroft, have diftinit Hemraaden or Councils.
After deduding the ftnall diftria of the Cape, Stellenbofch
and Drakenftein include the whole extent of country from
Cape L ’Aguillas, the fouthernmofl: point of Africa, to the River
Kouffie, the northern boundary of the colony; aline pf 380
miles in length,; and the mean breadth from eaft to weft is about
150 miles, comprehending an area, after fubtrafldng that of the
Cape diftria, equal to fifty-five thoufand fquare miles. Twelve
hundred families are in pofieifion of this extenfive diftria, To
that each family, on an average, has forty-fix fquare miles of
land, a quantity more than five times tha,t which, the Dutch
Government thought to be extenfive enough to keep the fettlers
afunder, and fufficient to allow the hoiftes to ftand at more than
twice the regulated diftance of three miles from each other. The
greater part, however, of this extenfive furface may be c°n-
fidered as of little value, confifting of naked mountains, Tandy
hills, and Karroo plains. But a portion of the remainder com—
pofes the rnoft valuable pofleflions of the whole colony whether
they be confidered as to thefertily of the foil, the temperature
of the climate, or their proximity, to the Cape, which at
prefent, is the only market in the colony where the farmer has
an opportunity to. difpofe of his,produce, The parts of the
diftria to which I allude, are thofe divifions beginning at Falfe
Bay and ftretching along the feet of the great chain of meun-
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