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SOUTHERN AFRICA, 
by the introduction of the merino and other wool- 
bearing animals. According to the last statis- 
tical return of this division, the population was 
10,736 — the coloured races exceeding the Euro- 
peans in this calculation by 1330. The value 
of horses alone, within the district, was £36,238, 
cattle, £55,361, and sheep, £337,572. To this 
were added £22,986, in goats, and £339, in 
pigs ; thus making the aggregate value of live 
stock to be £444,816. 
The quantity of wool, shipped for the market, 
from the Eastern port of Algoa Bay, during the 
year 1852, amounted to nearly 6,000,000 lbs. ; 
of this large quantity, this district yielded one 
seventh. 
The landed property here is estimated to be 
1,615,178 acres; on this, 1077 houses and 990 
huts have been erected. The commercial im- 
portance and value, of this district, is very great. 
Besides wool and cattle; tallow, butter, soap, 
hides, and skins are produced. Also a small 
proportion of wheat, oats, rye, and barley. 
In several parts of the district, the country 
is wholly destitute of wood — the farmers using 
cattle-dung for fuel. This is dug out of the cattle- 
kraals, when softened by the rain. It is then 
cut into square pieces and stacked in a similar 
manner to turf or peat in England, Ireland, and 
Scotland ; when sufficiently dry, it burns well, 
