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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
In travelling oyer these districts, it may not 
be unacceptable to notice, in a slight sketch, 
one of the new villages which was lately estab- 
lished here by the late lamented general Cath- 
cart, for the defence and strengthening of the 
colonial border. 
This has been a most successful stroke of 
policy, and one which cannot be too extensively 
copied. Towns not straggling villages, houses 
not huts, are what are required by those who 
would make head against barbarism ; and the 
enterprising spirit, with which those few at- 
tempts lately made have been carried out, only 
the more plainly shows, that the loyal hearts 
and industrious hands, necessary to the forma- 
tion, are not wanting when once the project 
be started. 
Having lately visited the one at Waterloo 
Bay, called New Town, we shall endeavour to 
give some description of it, and also of the line 
of road and surrounding country. 
On leaving Fort Beaufort, we passed through 
the old Missionary institution, called "Birt's 
Station," now granted to a number of Dutch 
farmers, under Mr. Hartman. Preparations were 
already making here for the erection of a Dutch 
church, and, from the numerous families already 
occupying the Keiskamma, there is every reason 
to believe that a good congregation will assem- 
