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yields the largest supply of live stock sent to 
the colonial markets ; while Swellendam exceeds 
all others in agricultural produce — its annual 
average being about 30,000 bushels of grain. 
Clanwilliam is the largest division of the 
Western Province of the Colony. It contains 
22,111 square miles of country, but most of 
which is bleak and mountainous, and is also 
unproductive, owing to the scarcity of water. 
Many districts in it are solely supported by 
breeding cattle, (principally horses and sheep) 
and the smallest amount of agricultural pro- 
duce, is received from this division, if that of 
Beaufort be excepted. Tobacco and rice, of a 
good quality, have been raised on one farm 
within one of these districts; and the ready and 
remunerative market, found for them amongst 
the people of the neighbourhood, amply repaid 
the enterprising cultivator. The forests in the 
cedar mountains, have already been noticed as 
belonging to this division, with which is com- 
prised all that is worthy of note. 
To the I^orth, again, of Clanwilliam, lie Little 
and Great Namaqualand ; which, at the present, 
contain one of the few remnants of the pure 
Hottentot race. In itself, it is an uninteresting 
land; very hot, oppressive, and unhealthy in 
climate; and covered with wide plains of Karroo 
and desert, on which rain seldom falls, and not 
