Geology. 187 



Amount of outgoings brought over R.D. 3212 5 



Returns. 



100 loggers of wine brought to market a 30 3000 

 20 ditto of brandy ditto a 50 - 1000 



The wine and brandy sold to the country 



boorsjwith the fruit and poultry brought 



to the Cape market, are more than suffi- \ 



cient to balance every other contingent 



and extraordinary expense. 



Amount of returns 4000 4000 



Balance in favour of the farmer R.D. 787 3 



or;^". 157 8 3 



\vhich sum mav be considered as a net annual profit, after 

 every charge on the farm and on housekeeping has been de- 

 fra\'ed. 



The payment of an estate purchased is made easy to the 

 purchaser. The customary conditions are to pay by three 

 iiistalments, one-third ready money, one-third in one year, 

 and the remaining third at the end of the second year ; and 

 the latter two-thirds bear no interest. And even the first 

 instalment he can borrow of government, through the loan 

 bank, by giving the estate as a mortgage and two sufficient 

 securities. So that verv large estates may be purchased at 

 the Cape with very little money, which is the chief reason 

 of the nudtiplicity of vendues. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXIII. InielUgence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



1. HE block of gypsum found at Pantin two or three months 

 ago, containing a considerable portion of the skeleton of a 

 tjuadrupcd, has been purchased by the prefect of La Seine, 

 and given by him, in the name of the conmumc of Paris, 

 to the Museum of Natural History. The administrators 

 Lave entrusted the examination of it to M. Cuvier, one of 

 thiir members. 



'J'Ihk ([uadiiiped is not a ram, as supposed, and as men- 

 tioned 



