Means of enabling a Cottager to keep a Cow, &c. 227 



were fcattered at the feet of the mountains along the fea 

 coaft, from the Lion's Head to the true Cape of Good Hope. 

 All thefe are precifely of the fame nature and the fame ma- 

 terials as the Pearl and the Diamond ; that is to fay, they 

 are aggregates of quartz and mica ; the flrft in large irregular 

 mafles, and the latter in hlaek lumps refembling ihorl : they 

 contain alfo cubic pieces of feltfpar, and feem to be bound 

 together by plates of a clayey iron-ftone. All the ftones of 

 this deicription appear to have been formed round a nucleus, 

 as by the action of the air and weather they fall to pieces in 

 large concentric laminae. The Pearl is accefiible on the 

 northern fide, but is nearly perpendicular on all the reft. 

 This (loping fide is more than a thoufand feet, and the per- 

 pendicular altitude about four hundred feet, above the fum- 

 mit of the mountain; and the circumference of its bafe is a 

 full mile. Near the top it is quadrife&ed by two clifts, 

 eroding at right angles, in which were growing a number 

 of beautiful aloes, feveral eryptogamous and other plants. 

 A great part of the flanting fide was covered with a fpecies 

 of green lichen. Down the perpendicular fides were im- 

 menfe rifts, as if the mafs had been torn afunder by its own 

 weight. The Diamond is the higher block, but lefs bulky, 

 and, being cone-fhaped, is difficult and dangerous to afcend. 



•XXXIV. Obfervations on the Means of enabling a Cottager 

 to keep a Cow by the Produce of a jmall Portion of Arabic 

 Land. By Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M. P. * 



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N feveral parts of the kingdom, as in Lincolnfhire, Rut- 

 landfliire, &c, which are calculated for grazing, it is not 

 unufual to give induftrious Cottagers as much land as will 

 enable them to keep A cow, and fometimes two, or more, 

 befides other flock ; and it appears from the communications 

 of Lord Winchelfea and others to the Board of Agriculture, 

 from the publications of the Society for bettering the Con- 

 dition of the Poor, and from a late interefting work printed 

 by Mr. Arthur Young f, that fiich a fyftem is productive of 

 the happieft confequences. It is fuppofed, however, to be 

 totally inapplicable to an arable di(tri£t. I truft that fuch 

 an opinion will not be admitted without full confideration. 



* Drawn up for the confideration of the Board of Agriculture and In- 

 ternal Improvement. 



f Intitlcd «« An Inquiry into the Propriety of applying Waftes to the 

 better Maintenance and Support of the Poor." 



P 2 Indeed^ 



