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pierced with loop-holes. If the engineer who superintended 

 the erection of this battery meant these loop-holes for the 

 service of its defenders, he strangely mistook his object, as 

 they are fully seven feet above the internal area of the works, 

 and an enemy, once in possession of the rampart could destroy 

 every man in the battery, by firing through the loop-holes, 

 without running the smallest risk themselves. 



" The first thing which arrests the attention of a stranger, 

 on his arrival at Capetown, is the wonderful diversity in the 

 features, colour, and costume of the various descriptions of 

 people who crowd the streets. He feels amazed at finding 

 himself in a sort of Noah's Ark, where he meets with more 

 varieties of one species than the Patriarch had under his 

 charge of the whole animal creation. Here he may see the 

 pure spotless robe of the Hindoo rubbing against the painted 

 kaross of the Caffre and the soot-stained sheepskin of the 

 Hottentot : here the barefooted boor from the snow moun- 

 tain stares at the polished boots of the London cockney: 

 here he may contrast the crop of the Pennsylvanian with the 

 pendent crown-lock of the Chinese : here the Brazilian may 

 shake hands with the Malay, and the Guinea Negro with his 

 brother from Madagascar. In the midst of this motley 

 groupe, Europaeans of every description, either as traders or 

 prisoners of war, pass in review before him. The geogra- 

 phical position of the colony will account, in some measure, 

 for the concurrence of these heterogeneous elements of popu- 

 lation. The peculiar circumstances under which it was 

 originally established, facilitate the emigration of people from 

 all parts of Germany and the North of Europe. The revo- 

 cation of the Edict of Nantz drove numbers of French Pro- 

 testant families here for refuge ; the practice of discharging 

 soldiers in the settlement, after a certain period of service, 

 few of whom ever returned to Europe ; the extensive com- 

 munication between Europe and India, in the course of 

 which numberless adventurers were induced by hope, or 

 forced by distress, to relinquish their prospects in the East, 

 and settle in the colony; and, finally, the salubrity of the 

 climate, inviting the martyrs to tropical diseases to repair 



