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but, shortly, a church, and school-house is ex- 
pected to rise there ; for the erection of which, 
Mr. Waters, a deacon of the Church, was zea- 
lously labouring amongst his surrounding flock, 
by all of whom he is equally beloved and de- 
servedly respected. 
Crossing from Southwell back to Langholm, 
our road lay through the Cowie bush, haying 
first crossed the ruined remains of another large 
farm, once the property of Mr. Phillips, also 
one of the settlers of 1820. In our ride through 
the bush, we visited the noted pass in this 
neighbourhood, so poetically described by the 
traveller Barrow ; and then, after exploring all 
the beauties of these forest scenes, we retraced 
our steps towards Graham's Town. 
This visit was an ocular demonstration of the 
perfect success of the effort made by England, 
in the immigration of 1820, sent out to these 
locations. Nor can we but feel convinced that 
a repetition of the same policy, at the present 
time, is the best measure that could be effected 
towards securing and extending peace on our 
South African border. Between Southwell and 
Graham's Town, proceeding through the Zuure- 
veldt, are Cuylerville, Theopolis, and Salem. 
The former of these was the first village estab- 
lished by the settlers, the other two are Mis- 
sionary locations, one belonging to the London 
