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SOUTHERN" AFRICA. 
the munificence of a Christian lady (Miss Bur- 
dett Coutts) in England, the first South African 
bishoprick of Cape Town was established, and 
the Eight Kev. Eobert Gray, D. D., Vicar of 
Stockton-upon-Tees, was consecrated to that 
see. At that period, the South African Diocese 
included the Cape Colony, British Kaffraria, 
Kaffirland, Natal, the Soyereignty, and the Is- 
land of St. Helena ; whilst the Bishop, situated 
at Cape Town, was, on the one side, upwards 
of 1000 miles from Natal, and, on the other, 
1000 more from St. Helena. 
The population of the Diocese, was 790,000 
souls, of which, 652,000 were of the coloured 
tribes ; but at this period there were, beside the 
Bishop, only thirteen clergymen, and one ca- 
techist of the Church of England, scattered 
throughout the whole of this territory, and not 
one single Church Missionary amongst the heathen ; 
whilst the Mahomedans were actually prosely- 
tizing /rom among the ranks of Christians. A 
cheering revival has, however, taken place with- 
in the last few years, and the South African 
Church has now "taken root downwards, and 
is bearing fruit upward" in a degree which 
far outstrips the sanguine expectation even of 
its most hopeful well-wishers. 
In 1848, Dr. Gray made his primary visita- 
tion tour of his extensive Diocese, travelling 
