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opening up easier commerce with the upper, and 
more interior, districts. 
Albany, on the other side of Graham's Town, 
presents little of interest. The farms are good 
and valuable, but not particularly picturesque 
or striking to a travellers eye ; perhaps by reason 
of his being engaged, when seeing them, in his 
long ride of 90 miles through Sidbury, Quagga- 
Vlaats, and the Addo-bush to Port Elizabeth, and 
thus is thinking more of his road and journey's 
end, than the surrounding districts, or their pro- 
ductions. Suffice it, however, to say that the 
occupants of them are as industrious as their 
compeers; quite as hospitable; and their houses 
as open to travellers as those in other parts of 
this division. 
" Uitenhage" is the next portion of the East- 
ern Province deserving notice. It lies between 
Albany and the "Western Province, and was 
originally part of the latter — incorporated as a 
portion of the old Dutch district of Stellenbosch. 
In 1804, it was established as an independent 
division. It is divided into eleven wards or 
"hundreds" as they are called, and each of 
these into two veldt-eornetcies. 
Its area extends over 8960 square miles, and it 
contains a population of 11,019; of which, 4628 
are whites, and the remainder, of the coloured 
races. Its principal productions in grain are 
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