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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
The market is good, large, and always well 
stocked and attended. It frequently presents 
a display of ivory, ostrich, feathers, wild beasts 7 
skins, antelope horns, and other promiscuous 
curiosities, brought from the interior of the 
African continent, which are not perhaps to be 
seen any where else in the world. 
About a mile from the town, is situated on 
the north-west side, the pretty house and grounds 
of " Oatlands," formerly the residence of Gene- 
ral Somerset, but now that of Walter Currie, 
Esq., the Commandant of Albany, the repre- 
sentative of one of the settlers, and one whose 
name is well known among his follow- colonists, 
as one of their bravest burghers. 
It may not be here misplaced, to include the 
notice of the rest of this part of the division, 
(all of which is intimately known to the author,) 
in the more informal shape of 
A RIDE THROUGH LOWER ALBANY. 
To this end, we started from Graham's Town, 
well mounted and supplied, and turned our head / 
in the direction of Bathurst, the Cowie, South- 
well, and Lushington Yalley, which form its 
richest locations. Passing the large barracks 
of Fort England, and leaving Graham's Town 
behind, the first ten miles of our road were 
through a fertile and picturesque valley, stud- 
ded with luxuriant farms and gardens. 
