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CHAPTER XII. 



Description of Albany — Market — Trade — Education — Labour — 

 Climate — Natural Productions — Detention at Sunday River — 

 Accidents in crossing — Uitenhage — Earth- Wolf — Vanstaden 

 River — Description of the Country — Oppressive Heat — Over- 

 taken by a violent Storm — Kromme River — Lange Kloof — 

 Devil's Kope — Beautiful Scenery — Knysna— Effects of the late 

 Storm — Pigmy Antelope. 



Albany is situated at the eastern extremity of the 

 Colony. Graham's Town is the principal town of 

 the eastern province, and contains 2000 inhabitants : 

 it lies in a valley surrounded by hills. It consists of 

 six hundred houses, from the humble cottage to 

 the stately mansion, displaying little uniformity of 

 arrangement, yet rendered pleasing by the gardens 

 and cultivated grounds with which the different 

 edifices are intermingled, in the middle of the 

 principal street stands the church, a plain Gothic 

 building, forming one of the most prominent ob- 

 jects to the eye of the stranger on entering the 

 town. It also contains chapels belonging to the 

 Wesleyan, Baptist, and Independent connexions, 

 public and infant schools, a gaol of a quadrangular 

 form, a reading-room, two tanneries, two sub- 

 scription libraries, a printing office, from which 

 a newspaper has been established, entitled the 

 " Graham's Town Journal," which is conducted with 



